03-26-2021, 12:34 AM
bitsnpcs, thanks for the detailed response and additional info. It did come across my mind that the issue with the speaker may be related to power and audio coming through a single USB connector. I would wager that speakers that are powered by USB but receive audio through 3.5mm and connect to the motherboard audio-out jack would work just fine. I mostly use headphone for audio and those work in the volume system tray just fine, for the occasional use of external speaker I'm fine with having the terminal open and adjusting volume in alsamixer.