SteelSeries GameDAC USB soundcard: no audio output in headset
Hello,
I have a SteelSeries GameDAC USB soundcard and lately I have been frequently encountering this issue: I can chose many different profiles for my USB sound card, e.g. Pro Audio
and Digital Audio (IEC958)
and pavucontrol
shows audio activity to the soundcard:
But the LED screen of the soundcard shows no activity and I cannot hear anything x)
journalctl
shows these pipewire
error messages:
Nov 13 20:25:23 leyantoo pipewire[1688]: spa.alsa: hw:3,0: snd_pcm_drop No such device
Nov 13 20:25:23 leyantoo pipewire[1688]: spa.alsa: hw:3,0: close failed: No such device
Nov 13 20:25:23 leyantoo pipewire[1688]: spa.alsa: hw:3,0: snd_pcm_drop No such device
Nov 13 20:25:23 leyantoo pipewire[1688]: spa.alsa: hw:3,0: close failed: No such device
Nov 13 20:26:05 leyantoo pipewire[1688]: spa.alsa: hw:3: snd_pcm_drop No such device
Nov 13 20:26:05 leyantoo pipewire[1688]: spa.alsa: iec958:3: snd_pcm_status error: No such device
Nov 13 20:26:05 leyantoo pipewire[1688]: spa.alsa: iec958:3: snd_pcm_recover error: No such device
Nov 13 20:26:05 leyantoo pipewire[1688]: spa.alsa: hw:3: close failed: No such device
Nov 13 20:26:05 leyantoo pipewire[1688]: spa.alsa: iec958:3: snd_pcm_drop No such device
Nov 13 20:26:05 leyantoo pipewire[1688]: spa.alsa: iec958:3: close failed: No such device
Nov 13 20:27:00 leyantoo pipewire[1688]: spa.alsa: hw:3,0: snd_pcm_status error: No such device
Nov 13 20:27:00 leyantoo pipewire[1688]: spa.alsa: hw:3,0: snd_pcm_recover error: No such device
Nov 13 20:27:00 leyantoo pipewire[1688]: spa.alsa: hw:3,0: snd_pcm_drop No such device
Nov 13 20:27:00 leyantoo pipewire[1688]: spa.alsa: hw:3,0: close failed: No such device
Nov 13 20:27:00 leyantoo pipewire[1688]: spa.alsa: hw:3,0: snd_pcm_drop No such device
Nov 13 20:27:00 leyantoo pipewire[1688]: spa.alsa: hw:3,0: close failed: No such device
wireplumber
doesnt' seem to output anything relevant
Nov 13 20:20:07 leyantoo dbus-daemon[967]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.bluez' unit='dbus-org.bluez.service' requested by ':1.51' (uid=1000 pid=1689 comm="/usr/bin/wireplumber ")
Nov 13 20:20:09 leyantoo wireplumber[1689]: GetManagedObjects() failed: org.freedesktop.systemd1.NoSuchUnit
Nov 13 20:30:35 leyantoo dbus-daemon[967]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.bluez' unit='dbus-org.bluez.service' requested by ':1.125' (uid=1000 pid=1689 comm="/usr/bin/wireplumber ")
Nov 13 20:30:35 leyantoo wireplumber[1689]: GetManagedObjects() failed: org.freedesktop.systemd1.NoSuchUnit
I first booted on LXQt (x11)
pw-dump-GameDAC-no-audio-LXQt-x11-cold-boot
then logged out and logged back in Gnome (Wayland)
pw-dump-GameDAC-no-audio-Gnome-wayland-relogin
Rebooting, disconnecting and re-connecting the USB soundcard and first logging in Gnome/Wayland does not fix the issue.
I do not know how to get better logs and the documentation got me a little bit lost. I am willing to look further into this with some feedback !
Thank you
Distro: Gentoo LXQt version: 1.0.0 Gnome: 40.5.0 Pipewire version: 0.3.40 Wireplumber version: 0.4.5 Kernel: 5.15.1