The Other wrote: > Then I looked into the /etc/pulse/default.pa file, and went into the > ### Load Audio Drivers section and put in this: > > load-module module-alsa-sink > load-module module-alsa-source device=hw:1,0 > > and commented out everything in the ### Automatically Load Drivers > section so hal-detect wouldn't be used. > > > That helped some. But now I think I understand what is causing my > trouble. The motherboard sound chip is getting recognized as hw:0 > (default), and the Audigy2 ZS is getting recognized as hw:1. > > I think RealPlayer 11 is using hw:0 as the output, hence it's getting > kicked out on the motherboard speaker. In prior versions of ALSA, I > remember a program called alsaconfig (or something close to that) that > let you specify the order of your sound chips/cards. I would always > set the Audigy2 to become hw:0. > > I need something like this for PulseAudio. Then some of these older > sound programs which always use hw:0 would be using the Audigy2 > instead of the motherboard. While trying to change the default sound card for hw:0, I looked at the end of the /etc/pulse/default.pa file. There was a section labelled ### Make Some Devices Default. This looked very promising. Somewhere in the PulseAudio documentation I thought I saw something about being able to use the label for the hardware device. So instead of saying hw:1,0, I tried using hw:[Audigy2] to specify the device. In the ### Load Audio Drivers Statically section, I modified my lines to: load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:[Audigy2] load-module module-alsa-source device=hw:[Audigy2] Then in the ### Make Some Devices Default section, I added: set-default-sink device=hw:[Audigy2] set-default-source device=hw:[Audigy2] Saved out and relogged in as a normal user. Serendipity! I had borked-up the PulseAudio Server so that it wouldn't connect/initialize/start-up/whatever it does. I was no longer at the mercy of PulseAudio! I then removed the alsa-plugins-pulseaudio RPM. Now ALSA is in control of everything like it was before this upgrade to Fedora Core 9. The motherboard speaker is silent, as it always should be. I can't run RealAudio 11 (I can configure it, but as soon as I tell it to play an internet radio stream RealAudio immediately closes itself and hides.) But I can still use Firefox to play the internet radio stream, so I'm happy. The moral of this story: If PulseAudio is making your life miserable, give it some default sinks and sources that don't exist. PulseAudio will go away and give you some peace. Now, do I dare reboot this machine and find out that my method doesn't really work? No way! Thanks All, Stephen. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
