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luieburger

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Registered: 2013-07-27

Posts: 10

Can't select any audio device other than digital in Gnome 3/Cinnamon

I made a fresh Arch install with  alsa-utils, and gnome. The audio worked fine with all the defaults.

However, I went to the Gnome audio settings and selected a profile called "Digital Sterio IEC958 Output"

After that, my only output device option is digital out. For some reason I can't select any other profile. It's stuck on that one profile and I can't switch back to whatever the default was.

I googled around, but didn't find anything about managing Gnome audio profiles. I don't think it's an issue with ALSA, something is buggy with the way Gnome selects my sound profiles and devices.

I'm using an Asus Xonar DX. Has anyone encountered this before?

Last edited by luieburger (2013-11-01 17:47:43)

luieburger

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Registered: 2013-07-27

Posts: 10

Re: Can't select any audio device other than digital in Gnome 3/Cinnamon

Well the problem is "fixed" by removing everything Gnome related and installing Enlightenment. It even got the sound working for Natural Selection 2 (my original problem).

The problem now is that I don't really like Enlightenment that much, but at least it confirms that the problem is display based and not an alsa problem.

Last edited by luieburger (2013-11-01 19:39:44)

ooo

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Registered: 2013-04-10

Posts: 1,638

Re: Can't select any audio device other than digital in Gnome 3/Cinnamon

Gnome uses pulseaudio (afaik you can't even disable it), so the problem is most likely related to it.
you should be able to revert to default settings by removing ~/.config/pulse

if that didn't work, you should be able to manually configure the default output to analog by following these steps

epinephrine

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From: Frankfurt

Registered: 2012-10-18

Posts: 92

Re: Can't select any audio device other than digital in Gnome 3/Cinnamon

Thanks, ooo, these manual steps solved my problem. I had to manually select the analog output in Gnome settings again though. But at least, analog output was shown now
Is this bug already known upstream?