I do not understand how pulseaudio arranges ALSA-emulation for multiple devices. I have a typical setup with external speakers connected to the sound card and an USB Headset. My Voip-client (twinkle) uses ALSA. I would like to configure twinkle to use external speakers for ring tone, and headset for the normal audio. I have a standard .asoundrc as described in the 'Perfect Setup', defining a single ALSA device, called 'pulse'. Do I need to add an extra entry in my ~/.asoundrc so that ALSA-applications knows about my headset?. This must be a pretty normal use-case, but I haven't found any documentation about how to accomplish this. I know how to use pavucontrol to move streams between sound cards. I'm using vanilla Ubuntu Karmic (pulseaudio 0.9.19). - Vegard V -
