On Wed, 18.01.12 21:27, duportail (poort at telenet.be) wrote: > I have a multiseat system with multiple users and multiple soundcards. > PA per user started. > How can I prevent that when a users' soundcard is missing or > unplugged, the pulseaudio takes another sink/audiocard(of an other > user). You should simply ensure that only the user actvie on the specific seat gets access to the audio device of that seat. Note that systemd systems are multi-seat aware, a feature which has been added to our stack all the way from X11 to gdm and related componetns and we'll make official with Fedora 17. In such a setup multi-seat will work without any manual configuration in cases where identifiable multi-seat hw is used (i.e. such as the Plugable USB terminals), and with very little configuration otherwise. Multi-seat audio with PA will then just work. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.