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maxaille

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Registered: 2015-10-31

Posts: 10

alsamixer/GNOME sound profile - can't select USB headset

I was playing with the sound utility of GNOME, and I set the profile of my headset in "Input" in the place of "Output" and the headset disappeared from the list. I tried to see what can I change via alsamixer, and when I select the "Sound Card" of my usb headset, Alsamixer exit displaying "les commandes de mixage ne peuvent pas être chargés: Argument invalide", translated in english it give "mixing commands can not be loaded: Invalid argument"
Calling alsactl nrestore i get:

alsactl: state_lock:125: file /var/lib/alsa/asound.state lock error: File exists
alsactl: load_state:1683: Cannot open /var/lib/alsa/asound.state for reading: File exists
alsactl: sysfs_init:48: sysfs path '/sys' is invalid

Found hardware: "HDA-Intel" "Intel Haswell HDMI" "HDA:80862807,80860101,00100000" "0x17aa" "0x3978"
Hardware is initialized using a generic method
alsactl: sysfs_init:48: sysfs path '/sys' is invalid

Found hardware: "HDA-Intel" "Realtek ALC3239" "HDA:10ec0283,17aa3807,00100003" "0x17aa" "0x3978"
Hardware is initialized using a generic method
alsactl: sysfs_init:48: sysfs path '/sys' is invalid

Found hardware: "USB-Audio" "USB Mixer" "USB1038:1216" "" ""
Hardware is initialized using a generic method
/usr/share/alsa/init/default:181: value write error: Invalid argument
/usr/share/alsa/init/default:195: value write error: Invalid argument

where the USB-Audio is my headset.
I ran alsa-info and got:

USB Mixer: usb_id=0x10381216, ctrlif=0, ctlerr=0
amixer: Mixer load hw:2 error: Invalid argument
amixer: Mixer hw:2 load error: Invalid argument

the hw2 being the headset
I don't really know what to do now, so I need your help