[CentOS] blacklist audio device ???

[Alice Wonder]

On 10/15/2016 09:02 PM, Alice Wonder wrote:
> SuperMicro server board being used as workstation.
>
> Board has no audio itself.
>
> I have USB headphones I sometimes plug in.
>
> Unfortunately every time I plug them in I have use to use audio control
> panel and choose them. Why?
>
> lspci |grep Audio
> 01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation High Definition Audio
> Controller (rev a1)
>
> lspci -n |grep "^01:00.1"
> 01:00.1 0403: 10de:0be3 (rev a1)
>
> Seems the cheap nVidia 405 card I have installed has an audio controller
> (Interestingly reported as Intel HD Audio by the sound control panel)
> which I guess it has because of the HDMI interface.
>
> Is there a way to tell the sound system to pretend that controller isn't
> there? I will never need audio over the HDMI.

Oh - CentOS 7.2 x86_64