On Sun, 25.10.09 14:47, tomhorsley at comcast.net (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? Simply use a recent version of pavucontrol or gnome-volume-control and select the "Off" profile for the card in question and PA will ignore it from then on. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4