[pulseaudio-discuss] Hide a soundcard from pulseaudio?

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 14:47 +0000, tomhorsley at comcast.net wrote:
> I've got two soundcards, one I want pulse to use, one I want
> dedicated for mplayer to use for spdif passthrough. What is
> the best way to hide a soundcard from pulse?
> 
> My current theory is to not use the udev module and instead
> explicitly list just the modules for the audio devices I
> want it to use, but I'd prefer a better way.

Idly speculating without ever having tried (I only have one card on my
rig), couldn't you do an unload AFTER module-udev-detect of the card you
want pulse to release?