I feel like i'm in an Abbott and Costello routine. I finally got jack and pulse to behave together. I'm using the jackdbus detect module. When i login to gnome 3, jack and pulse play nicely together. If i stop jack for some reason, i can't restart it. It complains that pulseaudio and jackdbus are running (what? jackdbus is *your* module you fool). So i've set up commands to run when stopping and starting jack: start-up: pulseaudio --kill & sleep 1 after start-up: sleep 5 & pulseaudio --start shutdown: pulseaudio --kill & sleep 5 after-shutdown: null This almost works! i can start and stop jack to my heart's content. Pulseaudio only runs when jack is, but that's fine. I'd just have to copy after-startup to after-shutdown if i wanted pulse running without jack. The problem is, my volume controls for my sound card don't work in gnome because gnome doesn't seem to refresh its list of controls. Looking at pavucontrol i can see that pulse is only looking at the jack-sink. This makes some sense as after restarting pulse with jack running, it's jack that has the control of the soundcard, not alsa (which is where pulse gets it's card control info from i presume). If i fire up alsamixer i can see that the 'default' card is the jack-sink and i need to switch it to the sound card to get my controls working in pavucontrol and gnome mixer. Either both of those *show* the controls but they don't do anything or if i restart pulse they only show the jack-sink. Any ideas? Thank you. -- Bearcat M. ??ndor Feline Soul Systems LLC Voice: 872.CAT.SOUL (872.228.7685) Fax: 406.235.7070 Jabber/xmpp/gtalk/email: bearcat at feline-soul.net MSN: bearcatsandor at hotmail.com Yahoo: bearcatsandor AIM: bearcatmsandor -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20130605/e0ef0e14/attachment-0001.html>