Re: Setting pulse not to grab a particular sound device

> I've been lurking round the jack-devel list, following the dbus
> 'thread' (I believe something of this magnitude is more a rope than a
> thread, though). Someone mentioned PA grabbing everything, in the case
> of more than one sound cards in the machine (as is the case with all
> pro-audio setups, I believe).
>
> Besides the solution that Lennart mentioned, pavucontrol, this can be
> automated by editing /etc/pulse/default.pa, removing the lines
> concerning module-hal-detect, and manually loading
> module-alsa-sink/source with the correct hw parameters. This would be
> more convenient for scripts/packagers, whatever.