I re-installed Mint (default 21.2 XFCE, updated) after some time away, and experience a peculiar problem.
When playing sound (eg from youtube or spotity) via my speakers, everything works as expected: I can use the volume setting of the sound source itself, or use the main slider from the volume widget (audio mixer). Both work as expected
However: when using USB headphones, the slider from the audio mixer exhibits strange behaviour: When it is at 100% or more, it works fine, but when it is at 99% or less, the output volume suddenly becomes 0. So the volume gradually goes down as expected when moving the slider from right to left and then drops to 0 as soon as the slider goes below 100%
The volume control from the sound source can still be used, but these usually have limitations (mininum volume which is higher than comfortable, only coarse control in the lower regions)
This means that sound levels become difficult to set. Some sound sources may have a standard level higher than comfortable, and it can not be lowered, by the main slider (because it outputs 0 when set to levels less than 100%)
Any ideas?
Here's my system
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System:
Kernel: 5.15.0-100-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.4.0 Desktop: Xfce 4.18.1
tk: Gtk 3.24.33 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.18.0 vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0
Distro: Linux Mint 21.2 Victoria base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP ProBook 440 G4 v: N/A serial: <superuser required> Chassis:
type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: HP model: 822E v: KBC Version 42.81 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: HP
v: P85 Ver. 01.47 date: 06/15/2023
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 38.1 Wh (99.0%) condition: 38.5/48.0 Wh (80.1%) volts: 13.0 min: 11.4
model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Charging cycles: 273
CPU:
Info: dual core model: Intel Pentium 4415U bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled
arch: Amber/Kaby Lake note: check rev: 9 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB L3: 2 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2300 min/max: 400/2300 cores: 1: 2300 2: 2300 3: 2300 4: 2300
bogomips: 18399
Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel ports: active: eDP-1
empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:5906 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Lite-On HP HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-6:2 chip-ID: 04ca:7063
class-ID: 0e02
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 compositors: 1: xfwm v: 4.18.0 2: Compton v: 1 driver:
X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0") s-diag: 414mm (16.3")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: AU Optronics res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 112 size: 309x173mm (12.2x6.8")
diag: 354mm (13.9") modes: 1366x768
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 610 (KBL GT1) v: 4.6 Mesa 23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.2
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:9d71 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Jieli UACDemoV1.0 type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 1-1:9
chip-ID: 4c4a:4155 class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-100-generic running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Wireless 7265 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:095a class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-7:3
chip-ID: 8087:0a2a class-ID: e001
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 2.1 lmp-v: 4.2
sub-v: 1100 hci-v: 4.2 rev: 1100
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 357.72 GiB used: 70.99 GiB (19.8%)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: SSDG2-256GQ size: 238.47 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter>
rev: 8A0 scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: SanDisk model: SD8SN8U-128G-1006 size: 119.24 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 0006 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 116.81 GiB used: 18.44 GiB (15.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 96 MiB used: 49.2 MiB (51.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /swapfile
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 12 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-1:9 info: Jieli UACDemoV1.0 type: Audio,HID
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 4 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 400mA
chip-ID: 4c4a:4155 class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
Device-2: 1-4:8 info: Pixart Imaging Optical Mouse type: Mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid
interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 093a:2510 class-ID: 0301
Device-3: 1-6:2 info: Lite-On HP HD Camera type: Video driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 04ca:7063 class-ID: 0e02
Device-4: 1-7:3 info: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: Bluetooth driver: btusb
interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0a2a class-ID: e001
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 44.0 C pch: 38.0 C mobo: 0.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
Packages: 2227 apt: 2226 flatpak: 1
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/danielrichter2007-grub-customizer-jammy.list
1: deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/danielrichter2007-grub-customizer-jammy.gpg] https: //ppa.launchpadcontent.net/danielrichter2007/grub-customizer/ubuntu jammy main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/libreoffice-ppa-jammy.list
1: deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/libreoffice-ppa-jammy.gpg] https: //ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu jammy main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb http: //linux-mint.froonix.org victoria main upstream import backport
2: deb http: //ftp.hosteurope.de/mirror/archive.ubuntu.com jammy main restricted universe multiverse
3: deb http: //ftp.hosteurope.de/mirror/archive.ubuntu.com jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
4: deb http: //ftp.hosteurope.de/mirror/archive.ubuntu.com jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
5: deb http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list
1: deb http: //repository.spotify.com stable non-free
Info:
Processes: 235 Uptime: 1h 54m wakeups: 5 Memory: 7.64 GiB used: 3.48 GiB (45.5%) Init: systemd
v: 249 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.4.0 alt: 11/12 Client: Unknown python3.10 client
inxi: 3.3.13
