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</style></head><body><div>A yes. </div><div><br></div><div>your user has to be a member of audio group <br>sudo usermod -a -G audio $USER</div><div><br></div><div>And it seams the first card is the HDMI output of the PC and the sound card is actually USB.<br></div><div>So for your user you can create ~/.soundrc with the following content:<br>defaults.pcm.card 1</div><div><br></div><div>Or you can set it for the hole system with the file /etc/asound.conf and the same format. </div><div><br></div><div>Give this a try, please</div><div><br></div><div>On Mon, 2025-06-02 at 17:40 -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">On Mon, Jun 2, 2025 at 5:20\u202fPM Anton Avramov <<a href="mailto:lukav@lukav.com">lukav@lukav.com</a>> wrote:</div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg8711591193808057505"><div><div>Does alsamixer show you any controls for the pci sound card?</div></div></div><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Alsamixer says:</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Card: HDA Intel PCH</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Chipset: Alderlake-P HDMI</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Item: S/PDIF</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">The controls show S/PDIF, and SPDIF-1 to S/PDIF-3</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">All of them with 00, and no way to increase anything.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">No capture devices.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg8711591193808057505"><div><div>It had happen to me on occasion it doesn't detect properly if the output should be muted or not, so you can play with the controls there.</div></div></div><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">I rebooted, and everything is the same.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">But I found out something odd, and promising ... <br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">When I do <br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">$ sudo aplay -l<br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">The devices show up ...<br></div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****<br>card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]<br> Subdevices: 1/1<br> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0<br>card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]<br> Subdevices: 1/1<br> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0<br>card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]<br> Subdevices: 1/1<br> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0<br>card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]<br> Subdevices: 1/1<br> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0<br>card 1: HID [USB Audio and HID], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]<br> Subdevices: 1/1<br> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0<br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">So it seems like a group thing. <br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Will investigate further.<br></div><br></div></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>kwlug-disc mailing list<br></div><div>To unsubscribe, send an email to <a href="mailto:kwlug-disc-leave@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc-leave@kwlug.org</a><br></div><div>with the subject "unsubscribe", or email<br></div><div><a href="mailto:kwlug-disc-owner@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc-owner@kwlug.org</a> to contact a human being.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span></span></div></body></html>