On 02/04/2016 06:45 AM, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > Do you use KDE? If you load module-stream-restore with > restore_device=false, and the fallback sink is set correctly, the only > reason I can think of why streams would not go to the fallback sink is > that module-device-manager is loaded. The module is not in default.pa, > but start-pulseaudio-x11 loads it when run as part of KDE session > initialization, and I think KMix might load it too if not already > loaded. When things don't work, does "pactl list modules" show module- > device-manager? A-ha! I have not been using KDE, but for some reason my distribution starts it as a part of default desktop initialization [1]. When I removed that module with `pacmd unload-module` everything started working correctly. Thanks, I'll submit a bug downstream. 1: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/x11/display-managers/default.nix#L95 > > -- > Tanu > -- Nikolay.