PulseAudio in-/output device confusion

[Martin Kho]

On Friday 16 October 2009 15:26:01 Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
> 2009/10/16 Petrus de Calguarium <kwhiskerz at gmail.com>:
> > My confusion is cleared up. PulseAudio should be on top,
> > likely followed by Default, followed by PulseAudio Sound
> > Server, followed by the Sound Card.
> >
> > And for output, it doesn't matter, as not yet supported.
> 
> Is there a way to stop the periodic "device $X is not available,
> falling back to $Y" messages on start-up?

Put "$Y" on top of the list in System settings > Multimedia. Select "$Y" in 
the list and use <Prefer> button to bring it to the top. For me this stops 
those messages.

Martin Kho

> 
> MEF
>