Thanks guys, this clears things up for me. On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 5:17 AM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote: > '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/ > > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss > -- 73? ? ? de? ?? Chris? ? ?? KC2RGW ----------------------------------------------- ?dn ?p?s ????? ?o??uo? ?no? u?n? ?s???d 's??? ?u?p??? ??? no? ??