Preserve Pulseaudio "Default Sink" setting on reboot?

[Dave]

At 07:16 PM 11/7/2010, you wrote:
>On 07/11/2010 23:15, Dave wrote:
> > At 01:49 AM 11/7/2010, you wrote:
> >
> >> On 07/11/2010 15:30, Dave Markus wrote:
> >>
> >>> At 12:09 AM 11/7/2010, you wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 23:55 -0400, Dave wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> I use the Pulseaudio Device Chooser to set the default sink (on a
> >>>>> laptop) to a remote server. This works fine. When i reboot my laptop,
> >>>>> the default sink reverts back to "default" (the laptop sound card).
> >>>>> Is there a way to get the laptop to continue to use the remote server
> >>>>> after a reboot? Is there a command that I can run in a script on
> >>>>> startup to change the default sink back to the remote server?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I am running Ubuntu 9.04 on this machine.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> Using 10.4 it seems to remember the last setting used in an application,
> >>>> even after a reboot. No clue how it handles remote logins. Ric
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> I do not have a 10.04 system readily avalable but I tried it in a
> >>> 10.04 Netbook Edition system and it will not remember the default
> >>> sink setting after a reboot. Very frustrating for an
> >>>
> >> unsophisticated user. Dave
> >>
> >>>
> >> Do you really need pulseaudio is the real question and the bottom line.
> >> If not, get rid of it and use the good old alsa which works.
> >>
> >> (I didn't start on Ubuntu until Lucid (10.04) so don't really know what
> >> I am talking about [and so what's new?] here, but wasn't pulseaudio very
> >> primitive and very much of "the steam engine era" in Ubuntu 9.04?)
> >>
> >> [And a big, "HELLO!" goes to Ric :-) .]
> >>
> >> BC
> >>
> > I am using both 10.04 and 9.04. Pulseaudio has problems with some
> > apps but is working well in my situation. I have the sound system
> > connected to a server. On the laptops I use pulse audio device
> > chooser to connect to the server.
>
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>
>By now you would have read what Ric wrote - confirming that in 9.04
>pulseaudio was, as he put it, "crap" - and your original post
>specifically mentioned that you were using 9.04.
>
>So I guess you now have your answer: 9.04, alsa good, pulseaudio bad :-) .
>
>BC

Maybe I did not make it clear that Pulseaudio works fine. I have no 
problems getting my apps to stream audio to a sound card on a remote server.

I am just looking for a command line that I can use in a boot script 
so I can set the default sink to the remote server (so the user does 
not have to use padevchooser each time the laptop is rebooted).

Dave