[LAU] pavucontrol (Re: Linux Audio: An overview)

Paul Davis paul at linuxaudiosystems.com
Mon Apr 3 17:54:09 UTC 2017


On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 7:47 PM, jonetsu <jonetsu at teksavvy.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Apr 2017 19:42:32 +0200
> Peter <list at schmitteckert.com> wrote:
>
> > start 'pavucontrol'   (maybe you have to install it first: sudo
> > apt-get install pavucontrol)
> >
> > then the most right menu should be "Configuration" .
> >
> > There you you should see your sound cards.
> > Choose the one you would like to use within jack, go the profile
> > menu, where you can select between "stereo, 5.1, ..". The last option
> > is "off". Once you choose that, pulseaudio releases it and it can be
> > used by jack.
> >
> > You still have to choose that sound card within e.g. qjacktctl as the
> > desired sound card. That's all I had to do.
>
> Does this mean that the pulseaudio jack sink is no longer needed ?  I
>

orthogonal. the jack sink allows pulse to send audio to JACK. that's
unrelated to what has just been described.

note: the technique described works, but not reliably.
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