In case you’re interested in (co-)moderating any of the communities that I created, you’re welcome to message me.
I also have the account @Novocirab@jlai.lu. Furthermore, I own the account @daswetter@feddit.org, which I hope to make a small bot out of in the future.
It was a bit of a long shot experiment to begin with. The commands I posted can be useful when an audio device suddenly stops working after it has been working initially during a session, but since your problem is most likely about your device not being recognized at any time, it’s not too surprising that they don’t do much. Just worth the try.
Do any of
alsactl clean 0
alsactl clean 1
alsactl clean 2
do anything for you? (The numbers are for sound card 0, 1, and 2. It looks like, if anything, only 0 would be relevant for you, but you can try the others just in case.)
This command cleans the controls created by applications.
https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/questing/man1/alsactl.1.html
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