How to force PulseAudio to recognize my audio device
I have a Lenovo laptop. For about two years my Focusrite Saffire audio interface has worked correctly and shown up in the "Output" options of the Sound Settings.
Now, it not randomly started to now show up as an Output device.
Unplugging and plugging it back in occasionally works (gets it to appear as an output option and starts playing) but not all the time. Sometimes it doesn't appear, even when it is visible to aplay -l.
Here is an example:
aplay -l outputs card 2: USB [Scarlett 2i4 USB], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] (the card I want to use) but it does not show up in "Sound" (which I think is pulseaudio). How can I get it to show up when the OS obviously sees it and it used to work?
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I have a Lenovo laptop. For about two years my Focusrite Saffire audio interface has worked correctly and shown up in the "Output" options of the Sound Settings.
Now, it not randomly started to now show up as an Output device.
Unplugging and plugging it back in occasionally works (gets it to appear as an output option and starts playing) but not all the time. Sometimes it doesn't appear, even when it is visible to aplay -l.
Here is an example:
aplay -l outputs card 2: USB [Scarlett 2i4 USB], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] (the card I want to use) but it does not show up in "Sound" (which I think is pulseaudio). How can I get it to show up when the OS obviously sees it and it used to work?
pulseaudio alsa usb-audio
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I have a Lenovo laptop. For about two years my Focusrite Saffire audio interface has worked correctly and shown up in the "Output" options of the Sound Settings.
Now, it not randomly started to now show up as an Output device.
Unplugging and plugging it back in occasionally works (gets it to appear as an output option and starts playing) but not all the time. Sometimes it doesn't appear, even when it is visible to aplay -l.
Here is an example:
aplay -l outputs card 2: USB [Scarlett 2i4 USB], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] (the card I want to use) but it does not show up in "Sound" (which I think is pulseaudio). How can I get it to show up when the OS obviously sees it and it used to work?
pulseaudio alsa usb-audio
asked 5 mins ago
StartecStartec
3071520
I have a Lenovo laptop. For about two years my Focusrite Saffire audio interface has worked correctly and shown up in the "Output" options of the Sound Settings.
Now, it not randomly started to now show up as an Output device.
Unplugging and plugging it back in occasionally works (gets it to appear as an output option and starts playing) but not all the time. Sometimes it doesn't appear, even when it is visible to aplay -l.
Here is an example:
aplay -l outputs card 2: USB [Scarlett 2i4 USB], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] (the card I want to use) but it does not show up in "Sound" (which I think is pulseaudio). How can I get it to show up when the OS obviously sees it and it used to work?
pulseaudio alsa usb-audio
pulseaudio alsa usb-audio
asked 5 mins ago
StartecStartec
3071520
asked 5 mins ago
StartecStartec
3071520
asked 5 mins ago
StartecStartec
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