Scarlet 2i4 USB Audio Not Detected at Startup
Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 5:50 pm
Greetings,
I have a Focusrite Scarlet 2i4 USB audio interface that I'm trying to use with KXStudio 14.05.04. I just did a clean install of KXStudio and am trying to get everything established new. My problem is that the Scarlet does not get discovered on startup, and when I try to discover it by replugging it in, things seem to start breaking. I'm not sure where to look to solve this.
In Phenom, I have it setup to be the preferred device, but it is disabled. Sometimes I have a "Scarlet 2i4 UBS Audio" device that shows up and it may or may not work. I have it set as default on the Recording and Music tabs.
This morning, I booted KXStudio and I was able to play an audio clip through the Scarlet, however, I could not control the volume. I could not see the Scarlet on the default Alsa Mixer, just the onboard audio and the Audacious volume controls didn't work. I know it was going though the Scarlet though as I have it all wired into an external mixing board and the Scarlet output was what was lighting up. I then uplugged the Scarlet and reconnected. Now I had several Scarlet USB options in Phenom, but now nothing worked. I could not get any audio out of it, and I couldn't readjust the onboard sound in Phenom to start working again by making it the preferred device. Everything just broke at this point and nothing would work.
What I would like is for the Scarlet to be discovered at system boot and become the default device for recording and output/music every time, but it comes up disabled until I replug it in. Every time I boot though, I get mixed results with the onboard and scarlet audio.
Any insight would be appreciated. I see this is a fairly common audio device and Linux does seem to work with it pretty well, but I just can't get consistent results with it and I'm getting frustrated having to figure out what is different each time to get it working, often just failing. Thanks.
v/r
Mark
I have a Focusrite Scarlet 2i4 USB audio interface that I'm trying to use with KXStudio 14.05.04. I just did a clean install of KXStudio and am trying to get everything established new. My problem is that the Scarlet does not get discovered on startup, and when I try to discover it by replugging it in, things seem to start breaking. I'm not sure where to look to solve this.
In Phenom, I have it setup to be the preferred device, but it is disabled. Sometimes I have a "Scarlet 2i4 UBS Audio" device that shows up and it may or may not work. I have it set as default on the Recording and Music tabs.
This morning, I booted KXStudio and I was able to play an audio clip through the Scarlet, however, I could not control the volume. I could not see the Scarlet on the default Alsa Mixer, just the onboard audio and the Audacious volume controls didn't work. I know it was going though the Scarlet though as I have it all wired into an external mixing board and the Scarlet output was what was lighting up. I then uplugged the Scarlet and reconnected. Now I had several Scarlet USB options in Phenom, but now nothing worked. I could not get any audio out of it, and I couldn't readjust the onboard sound in Phenom to start working again by making it the preferred device. Everything just broke at this point and nothing would work.
What I would like is for the Scarlet to be discovered at system boot and become the default device for recording and output/music every time, but it comes up disabled until I replug it in. Every time I boot though, I get mixed results with the onboard and scarlet audio.
Any insight would be appreciated. I see this is a fairly common audio device and Linux does seem to work with it pretty well, but I just can't get consistent results with it and I'm getting frustrated having to figure out what is different each time to get it working, often just failing. Thanks.
v/r
Mark