> So it is not about CPU consumption, pulseaudio is economical with CPU as is. Have you loaded the module module-suspend-on-idle? If nothing is playing (and your volume UI isn't showing), the output device should be burn any power. > I was not successful with this shot (old syntax?): > > add-autoload-sink alsa_sink module-alsa-sink device="hw:0" > add-autoload-source alsa_source module-alsa-source device="hw:0" Never seen this syntax, use module-detect... > Second issue: I have one application (Zoiper) which can only access ALSA at the moment (because it will not allow me to input non-hardware ALSA device names like pcm.pulse). Is there some hack/workaround to get such applications to talk to pulseaudio? use the pulse plugin from alsa-plugins. Works fine.
