On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 14:47 +0000, tomhorsley at comcast.net wrote: > I've got two soundcards, one I want pulse to use, one I want > dedicated for mplayer to use for spdif passthrough. What is > the best way to hide a soundcard from pulse? > > My current theory is to not use the udev module and instead > explicitly list just the modules for the audio devices I > want it to use, but I'd prefer a better way. Idly speculating without ever having tried (I only have one card on my rig), couldn't you do an unload AFTER module-udev-detect of the card you want pulse to release?