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Deliverance

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Registered: 2018-02-10

Posts: 4

Sound works in KDE applet but nowhere else

Just built a new PC and installed Arch on it. I'm running the latest version of KDE currently. I have no sound in any programs (Web browser, games, whatever)...but the sound mixer applet build with KDE works. It detects my headphones and when I adjust the volume I hear the "clicks" as it gets louder or quieter.

I've looked over the Wiki articles for sound troubleshooting and haven't gotten anywhere with that. I'm using headphones plugged into the front jack of my PC. In alsamixer, I've unmuted all channels and turned the volume up. speaker-test gives me no sound either. What should I do to troubleshoot? Why can the KDE applet produce sound but nothing else?

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Registered: 2013-04-10

Posts: 1,638

Re: Sound works in KDE applet but nowhere else

Impossible to say without detailing which applications exactly are affected.

My first guess would be, that you didn't install pulseaudio-alsa, which is an optional dependency to pulseaudio.