[pulseaudio-discuss] Disabling monitor sources in Pulse

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 14.01.10 18:18, Jeremy Visser (jeremy at visser.name) wrote:

> No difference. The program still records on the monitor source.  To get
> it to record off a real source, the actual recording stream for the
> program had to be manually changed in pavucontrol.

What program is this? Is it possibly overriding PA's device choice?
> 
> > > But now all that happens is that my "Monitor of Internal Analog Stereo"
> > > is now the default microphone for all applications, despite my selecting
> > > of the USB microphone as the default.
> > 
> > Uh, that is weird. Possibly because USB initialization is asynchronous
> > these days it isnt right-away available when PA starts up?
> 
> Not only that, but whenever I boot up, there is a chance (dunno, maybe
> 50%?) that when I reboot my computer, and even if the USB microphone is
> the only microphone that PA sees, it will still be unchecked in g-v-c,
> and not set as a fallback device in pavucontrol.
> 
> You'd think that if there are no recording sources, and then when one
> comes online, it'd be selected as the fallback automatically.

And that is exactly what happens. Please provide the output of "pacmd
ls" when PA is in that state youdescribe here where only one mic is
configured but not selected as default by PA.

Lennart

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