Hi all, I'm using Pulseaudio with Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (0.9.10 version). I've been going about converting my laptop to a recording machine, starting with the installation of JACK, of course. My current setup has JACK directly accessing my sound card, with Pulseaudio loading the modules 'module-jack-sink' and 'module-jack-source'. However, this means that when I stop JACK, some programs currently outputting sound to Pulseaudio (Rhythmbox, for example) hang and have to be killed manually. This also means that, without killing and restarting Pulseaudio, I cannot shut JACK down and have Pulseaudio automatically 'grab' the sound card. Neither can I, when running Pulseaudio without JACK, inform Pulseaudio to release its grab on the sound card so that JACK can grab the sound card (except with pasuspender, which isn't useful when what I actually want to do is have Pulse play THROUGH JACK). Sorry about the long background. Here's the questions I have:- 1. Is there a way to instruct 'module-alsa-sink' and 'module-alsa-source' to release their hold on the sound card? To maybe further complicate matters, I'm loading those modules through 'module-hal-detect'. I'd rather not unload the modules, because I've had problems loading them again once they've already been loaded to a running server. 2. Currently, upon starting JACK I run a script which loads the two modules 'module-jack-sink' and 'module-jack-source'. When I want to quit JACK without crashing Pulseaudio, I have to disconnect the connections JACK has made to Pulse, then quite JACK. This unloads 'module-jack-sink' and 'module-jack-source' automatically, leaving pulse without sinks or sources. Is there any way to use pactl to inform Pulse to reacquire the ALSA sinks and sources? Thanks. Ng Oon-Ee
