hi everyone, my audio interface is on (and thus drawing power) but it’s not being detected by my computer as an input output device, thoughts?
p.s. it worked just fine with a usb a port and the usb c cable im using does transfer data
hi everyone, my audio interface is on (and thus drawing power) but it’s not being detected by my computer as an input output device, thoughts?
p.s. it worked just fine with a usb a port and the usb c cable im using does transfer data
That’s the thing ! It’s not linux specific.
How it works :
USB 1 and 2 use a set of 4 pins. It can only use those 4pins to transmit data.
USB 3 uses 9 pins : the 4 original pins and 5 more pins. It is backwards compatible with USB 1 and 2 because it can only use those four pins instead of the full array.
USB-C, however, uses 24 pins (2*12 pins to be exact). However, what makes no sense, is when using a USB-A to USB-C cable it does work only in one direction : from USB-A to USB-C.
But rest assured, you are not alone onnthis issue. I’ve had it, even when I did not want to tranfer data but just power : it does not work, whether on Windows or Linux…