Audio bug temporarily resolved by clicking volume icon in the system tray.
I'm having a recurring, intermittent issue where my system audio goes completely silent until I click the volume icon in the system tray. If the Devices tab was preselected, the audio comes back immediately. If Applications is preselected, nothing happens until I click over to the Devices view at which point the audio is immediately restored. Even though it's simple to fix, it just happens again before too long. Sometimes minutes, sometimes hours, but it always happens eventually, and it's always a huge vibe killer when it happens in a game. I don't know of a way to force it. As far as I know it can occur at any time (while the system isn't off or sleeping) and while any application is running. Obviously it's extremely frustrating when it happens in game.
This only occurs when I'm using my Tascam Model 12 in its audio interface mode as my primary audio device. Plug-in USB headsets and other audio devices work just fine. The Model 12 is supposedly class-compliant and needs no drivers, and I've used it on Ubuntu Studio with no issues in the past. It's a pretty central part of my PC audio setup and I'd really like to find a permanent solution that involves keeping Bazzite...
I've played around with the Audio Device settings on the surface level, but I haven't found any promising leads. I'm not new to PC troubleshooting but I am pretty new to Linux, especially Linux audio. I'm game for digging around in logs and totally up for messing around in the terminal, but right now I don't even know where to start.
For now all I can imagine is that for some reason, the audio stream gets hung up, but when the audio device list is populated, something happens to remind the system that it needs to be sending audio out to the Model 12, and then all's well until the stream stops again.
Any leads would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance!
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