Hi, I have a PC that just has its own internal sound card, nothing special. However, this card (HDA Intel) has three output ports: analogue, HDMI and optical. I have been trying to find a way to get output on both the analogue and HDMI ports at the same time. I have succeeded, but had to use command line/default.pa to do this because of how sinks appear to be configured. My understanding is as follows: 1. When using pavucontrol or the Ubuntu sound settings, you can see the card under Output Devices. 2. The drop down list is a set of ports for this sound card. 3. Only one port can be set at a time. I've also noticed that "pavcmd list-sinks" only ever lists one sink. When a port is changed using pavucontrol, there is still just one sink available, but it's a different port and different index. So if only one sink is ever available, I cannot create a new combine sink, whether using the command line or paprefs, as it will just create a combine sink on the one sink, which is pointless. My questions are: 1. When setting a new port using the GUI, is the old sink module unloaded, and the new one for the new port loaded? 2. Why? I would have expected there to be a sink for each port, and just the default configured via the GUI, but this doesn't appear to be the case. Many thanks, Marc
