On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 10:29 +0200, Maarten Bosmans wrote: > You have to manually edit the default startup script for Pulseaudio. > In Ubuntu this is the file /etc/pulse/default/pa. > Use module-remap-sink > (http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/Modules#module-remap-sink) like this: > > load-module module-remap-sink master=sinkname channels=2 > channel_map=left,right master_channel_map=rear-left,rear-right > > > As an example this is my setup: > load-module module-alsa-sink tsched=0 sink_name=alsa_master > device=hw:0 rate=48000 channels=6 > channel_map=aux0,aux1,aux2,aux3,aux4,aux5 > load-module module-remap-sink sink_name=computer master=alsa_master > channels=2 channel_map=left,right master_channel_map=aux0,aux1 > load-module module-remap-sink sink_name=room1 master=alsa_master > channels=1 channel_map=mono master_channel_map=aux4 > load-module module-remap-sink sink_name=room2 master=alsa_master > channels=1 channel_map=mono master_channel_map=aux5 > load-module module-combine sink_name=everything slaves=computer,room1,room2 > update-sink-proplist computer device.description="Computer output" > update-sink-proplist room1 device.description="Living room" > update-sink-proplist room2 device.description="Kitchen" > update-sink-proplist everything device.description="The whole house" > set-default-sink copmuter > this example is enormously helpful. will try to get tothis tonight, thanks so much for your help (Tanu also)! > The update-sink-proplist commands are only available in what's going > to bet Pulseaudio 0.9.15. > I set up pulse as a system daemon > (http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/SystemWideInstance), which might also be > good > for your purpose. To do this in Ubuntu, flip the switch in > /etc/default/pulseaudio and alter the commands in the > file /etc/pulse/system.pa. thank you, again that's very helpful. If I do indeed go with 2 x sessions that's what i'll certainly do. I guess then I could choose a default virtual device for the user in charge of each X session, which would be great. thanks so much... matt
