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simonszu

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Registered: 2017-11-08

Posts: 8

Dell TB16 not recognized as a pulseaudio sink

Hi,

i have a Dell notebook with a TB16 docking station. The docking station works quite reliable after disabling thunderbolt authentication in the BIOS, however, recently pulseaudio stopped recognizing the station as a usable playback sink. It has a 3,5mm headphone jack, but currently the only sink which is recognized is the internal analog audio, which means, the internal speakers or the headphone jack of the notebook itself. Where can i start debugging this issue and hopefully fixing my pulseaudio to re-detect the docking station as an external sound card?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,678

Re: Dell TB16 not recognized as a pulseaudio sink

Possibly related? https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=241404 There are a lot of solutions thrown around, look at the second to last post for the most sustainable.