Comment 37 for bug 939161

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Tanu Kaskinen (tanuk) wrote : Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: hda - Remove ignore_misc_bit

On Fri, 2012-09-07 at 16:32 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > Hmm, I'm afraid it's not so easy to turn off PulseAudio's jack detection
> > without being root. Maybe it's possible using some .asoundrc magic?
>
> That's bad. asoundrc is equally cryptic like udev rules :)
>
> Honestly, can't the whole /usr/share/pulseaudio/* files be specified
> via an environment variable, or automatically looking at
> ~/.pulse/alsa-mixer/paths/* or such?

FWIW, I'm in favor of looking at the home directory...

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Tanu