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NeuroFuzzy

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Registered: 2011-04-13

Posts: 6

No Sound from USB Audio

I have a feeling this is a stupid mistake but I can't for the life of me figure out how to fix it. I had a fresh install of arch and everything worked fine, and speaker-test played fine. I installed KDE and audio still worked, but it kept giving notifications on startup like, "USB audio device has been removed", when the USB headset was still plugged in. Every once in a while I'd be stuck without sound but it would fix itself after removing and reinserting the USB audio thing. Eventually it started up with no audio; Each time the audio device is removed KDE said, "Would you like this to be removed from the device list", and this time I clicked "No" and "don't show me again". I can't figure out how to revert to "show me again". At time of writing with my USB audio plugged in, in the KDE Phonon audio system settings manager, it lists five greyed out USB headphone devices, and one colored one. I have a feeling that's the problem...

If I start up VLC media player, for example, I can go into that program's audio device manager and select USB audio, and everything plays fine! When it plays to the default device though, no sound comes out of my headset, so I can't get audio out of most applications.

The module is loaded:
lsmod | grep snd_usb_audio
> snd_usb_audio         112633  3

I've tried the things recommended on the following thread and on the wiki, but neither have worked:
http://archlinux.me/w0ng/2012/07/06/als … b-headset/
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ad … ound_cards
(neither the manual activation or the automatic script)
Oh, and looking at the problem on this page on the forum: I've changed the order of the devices and this hasn't helped.

Any ideas on what's wrong, or how to remove all the dead devices it lists?

Last edited by NeuroFuzzy (2013-06-23 16:26:32)

NeuroFuzzy

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Registered: 2011-04-13

Posts: 6

Re: No Sound from USB Audio

Any ideas? The number of dead devices listed is a bit ridiculous.

felipe

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Registered: 2013-06-29

Posts: 70

Re: No Sound from USB Audio

to remove the other devices you have to disable them. It could be done from that window but you don't have the tab. So try installing pavucontrol and disable the other cards.

And you have to select in asound conf to use your usb card on boot. Use the script from the wiki for that.

Last edited by felipe (2013-07-13 15:47:16)