hardware or software synths

[John G. Heim]

Marcel Oats  <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> wrote:
> My only other recommendation,
>especially if you will be using multiple machines with varying 
>configurations, would be to carry a USB headset or other sound device 
>that you can trust to work with Linux. For some strange reason, some 
>onboard sound still comes up muted, so it's best to have something that 
>you can be sure will always play sound unmuted out of the box.


Last time I checked, linux didn't automatically switch the default sound
device from an internal sound card to a USB headset. Has this changed?