Audio is muted and mapped wrongly by default on Focusrite Scarlett 18i8
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Submitted by Elias Hogstvedt Assigned to pul..@..op.org
Description
The first time I plugged this device in while being relatively new to linux I spent a lot of time figuring out why the audio wasn't working as opening a terminal and typing alsamixer, selecting the soundcard and pressing M on the output to unmute it wasn't something I had thought of. The left and right channel are also PCM 1/PCM 1 by default but they should be PCM 1/PCM 2. So after unmuting and setting the right channels there's audio at least.
But after that there's the issue that it's being treated as a 5.1 system so the bass is on some other channel. There's an existing issue for that though https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93163
I don't know how you handle specific devices. If they don't conform do you do special case handling? Or should that happen somewhere else?