serríaðBeen three months of using linux as my regular desktop OS at home. Its been great, right up until this week, when the sound has inexplicably just stopped working. No indication of what's happened. I go to the audio page of the settings gui, and hit "test speakers". Settings gui then just straight up freezes with "wireplumber" eating an entire CPU core. I do not have the time or patience to fight with this shit.
Seems like the OS has just completely forgotten the existence of the output side of my usb audio interface. I can still record sound through it just fine, I just can't hear it. Apparently the only output I have is an S/PDIF port, even though there are precisely zero of those on my machine.
Audacity lets me switch to the correct output device, and works just fine, but that's of limited general use.
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