[emilyst]

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.

[snvzz]

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

In the sound cards list, just set to disabled.

[emilyst]

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.

[kam]

`pactl` is the command line version

[emilyst]

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

[snvzz]

And 'ssh -X' is also a thing.

[snvzz]

>For a headless system, it's useless.

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

[emilyst]

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.

[taifleh]

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

$ PULSE_SERVER=192.168.1.21 pavucontrol