Re: Setting pulse not to grab a particular sound device

> On Wed, 17.06.09 07:04, Ng Oon-Ee (ngoonee@...) wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Which I can only advise against. For many reasons: breaks hotplug,
> module-alsa-sink/-source are obsolete, unstable device names, and so
> on and so on.
>
> Just use pavucontrol or just upgrade to JACK2 and everything starts to
> work witout any further intervention due to the mentioned device
> reservation logic.
>
> Lennart
>