On Sun, 16.12.07 18:15, Ritesh Kumar (ritesh at cs.unc.edu) wrote: > Hi, Hi! > I recently installed pulseaudio for my desktop sound setup involving two > cards. Everything is running fine and the setup was a breeze. Thanks for > building such a great piece of software. > > BTW, what does pacmd's set-default-sink/source do? What is the meaning of > the default sink? I figured out that alsamixer (through the pulse alsa > plugin) always changes the mixer controls for the current default sink as > per the pulseaudio daemon. However, I don't think the playback of a > connecting client always goes to the current default sink. Is this expected > behavior? Yes, as tanuk already mentioned, module-volume-restore (which is admitedly badly named) takes precedence for known streams -- only previously unknown streams are connected to the default sink/source. And whatever clients configure takes precedence over that. > Plus, I had a little suggestion too. Can we have a > get-default-sink/source command in pacmd/pactl? The "stat" command prints that already. But I guess we could add explicit commands for this, too. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
