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It's fine when it works. It's a monstrosity when it doesn't.

I spent an hour the other day trying to figure out how to tell it not to output audio through my DualSense controller haptics (which look like a four-channel audio output) when I connect it to an Intel NUC over USB. I never did succeed, and all the posts I found were basically other people asking how to do similar things.



I used pavucontrol to simply tell it to not do it. Once is enough.

In the sound cards list, just set to disabled.


You can't use `pavucontrol` unless you're logged in to a graphical interface as the user who is producing the sound.

For a headless system, it's useless.


`pactl` is the command line version


Also tried, also useless. The program producing the sound is being run by another user.


And 'ssh -X' is also a thing.


>For a headless system, it's useless.

DualSense is a game controller. In this context, headless is unlikely.


Depends on how you define headless, but the fact is, I'm rarely logged into it, and there's no mouse nor keyboard connected, nor any X server running.


you can actually use pavucontrol for remote PA servers that have native-protocol-tcp running

$ PULSE_SERVER=192.168.1.21 pavucontrol




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