Re: Setting pulse not to grab a particular sound device

> On Wed, 17.06.09 07:35, Ng Oon-Ee (ngoonee@...) wrote:
>
> > Hi Lennart,
> >
> > Would there be a script-based alternative to the pavucontrol method,
> > then? Or is Jack2 'it' in that sense?
>
> pactl set-card-profile foo off
>
> > As I have previously mentioned on the pulse list, the reason I turn off
> > hotplug through HAL is so I can, through scripts, define whether I want
> > PA accessing my sound card or my jack server (via
> > module-jack-sink/source). I admit to a lack of understanding on the
> > specifics of the new JACK2 device reservation, as well as the dbus
> > hoo-ha surrounding it, but it seems to me that the general effect would
> > be to suspend PA totally when JACK2 starts and resume it when JACK2
> > finishes. Is this understanding correct?
>
> The device reservation logic is (as the name suggests...) per
> device. i.e. only the device jack asks for will be released. And when
> JACK goes away PA will again take posession of it. While the device is
> taken by jack it is marked 'suspended' in PA.
>
> And what I was proposing at the beginning of that other thread is that
> if Jack takes a service name on the bus PA could watch for it and load
> the connectivity modules automatically, providing some ports in jack
> that folks can connect if they wish.
>
> Lennart
>