'Twas brillig, and Tanu Kaskinen at 20/10/11 07:21 did gyre and gimble: > On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 19:56 -0400, Chris wrote: > (That exclamation mark means that this definition will override the > older definition for "default" if it happens to have been defined > already in some other configuration file). That alsa device will use > whatever sink Pulseaudio thinks is best. For making alsa devices for the > null sink and its monitor, this should work: > > pcm.vac { > type pulse > device vac > } > > pcm.vacmonitor { > type pulse > device vac.monitor > } > You can also provide a hint which some alsa clients will use: pcm.vac { type pulse device vac hint { show on description "My Nice VAC" } } aplay -L vac My Nice VAC .... Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/