Pulseaudio and USB Dac

How do I get pulseaudio to see my USB dac? It keeps playing sound through the sound card only.
I've added "load-module module-udev-detect" to default.pa, and changed my ~/.asoundrc to include:
pcm.pulse {
type pulse
ctl.pulse {
type pulse
pcm.!default {
type pulse
ctl.!default {
type pulse
aplay -L shows this, but I don't know what to add as the alsa-sinks:
default:CARD=CS46xx
Sound Fusion CS46xx, CS46xx
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=CS46xx,DEV=0
Sound Fusion CS46xx, CS46xx
Front speakers
rear:CARD=CS46xx,DEV=0
Sound Fusion CS46xx, CS46xx - Rear
Rear speakers
center_lfe:CARD=CS46xx,DEV=0
Sound Fusion CS46xx, CS46xx - Center LFE
Center and Subwoofer speakers
surround40:CARD=CS46xx,DEV=0
Sound Fusion CS46xx, CS46xx
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=CS46xx,DEV=0
Sound Fusion CS46xx, CS46xx
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=CS46xx,DEV=0
Sound Fusion CS46xx, CS46xx
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=CS46xx,DEV=0
Sound Fusion CS46xx, CS46xx
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
iec958:CARD=CS46xx,DEV=0
Sound Fusion CS46xx, CS46xx - IEC958
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
default:CARD=default
USB Audio DAC , USB Audio
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=default,DEV=0
USB Audio DAC , USB Audio
Front speakers
surround40:CARD=default,DEV=0
USB Audio DAC , USB Audio
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=default,DEV=0
USB Audio DAC , USB Audio
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=default,DEV=0
USB Audio DAC , USB Audio
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=default,DEV=0
USB Audio DAC , USB Audio
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=default,DEV=0
USB Audio DAC , USB Audio
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=default,DEV=0
USB Audio DAC , USB Audio
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output

denisfalqueto wrote:
I think you can do it in pavucontrol. Theres the "Output devices" tab, which should be showing your devices. You can select the default one by pressing the green button with a check mark. This is what I do with my PCMCIA audio board.
Hope that helps.
I was trying to do it manually. pavucontrol doesn't work with the ubuntu font packages. :-(
10:48 PM:~ $ pavucontrol
pavucontrol: error while loading shared libraries: libglademm-2.4.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
# pacman -S libglademm
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: cairo conflicts with cairo-ubuntu. Remove cairo-ubuntu? [Y/n] n
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
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