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d_fajardo

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Registered: 2017-07-28

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[SOLVED]How to disable sound cards

Is it possible to disable sound cards so they don't show up in pactl?
I am using an external DAC as my primary sound driver. I have other built-in sound cards that came both from my motherboard and my graphics card and I just want to minimise the noise in my sound interfaces and just wondering if it is possible to disable the ones I don't need.

Last edited by d_fajardo (2024-02-15 16:54:52)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED]How to disable sound cards

The pulse profile logistics has built-in support for that, set the profile of the undesired card to off, either in the configuration tab of pavucontrol for example or via

pactl set-card-profile $cardname off

where $cardname is the name as given in the relevant listing of "pactl list cards".

d_fajardo

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Re: [SOLVED]How to disable sound cards

Thanks V1del. It works.