On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 23:19 +0200, Christian Iversen wrote: > On 2013-05-13 05:41, Arun Raghavan wrote: > > On Sun, 2013-05-12 at 17:18 +0200, Christian Iversen wrote: > > [...] > >> Is there any way to have pulseaudio keep the device open at all times? > >> Or some other way to debug this? > > > > Disable the loading of module-suspend-on-idle in /etc/pulse/default.pa. > > I'm assuming you don't care about the resulting power consumption. :) > > Ah, there is was! :) > > Well, that's great. Thanks! > > I don't think the Scarlett 2i2 really supports any meaningful power save > mode anyway. It's quite a low-power soundcard to begin with (powered > entirely by the USB bus). > > Anyway, even with the official driver for windows, this card has > terrible clicks and pops when starting up from suspend (or power off). > > Does module-suspend-on-idle have a blacklist? It should! And this card > should be on it. > > What does pa use for identifying backends? I mean, if I wanted to > blacklist certain modules for a specific PCI or USB id, is that > something that is reasonably easy to do? Unfortunately, no. You can see that someone with a laptop might prefer the clicks to keeping the device powered at all times. Still, might be something that could be done, and toggled using a module argument. Don't know if anyone will be able to take this up soon,. but we're always happy to help people contribute. :) -- Arun
