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georgethewhale

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Registered: 2018-11-17

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[SOLVED] GNOME sound controls do not work

I cannot  change the volume, or any other sound settings using the gnome tool. I can, however, use alsamixer.

This is what my sound settings looks like:

https://i.imgur.com/dlkzdNY.png

Relevant outputs from lspci:

00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller (rev 06)
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 30
    Memory at f7c34000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
    Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
    Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
    Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
    Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio Controller
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 28
    Memory at f7c30000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
    Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
    Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
    Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
    Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
    Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel

Last edited by georgethewhale (2018-11-19 16:38:33)

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Re: [SOLVED] GNOME sound controls do not work

Read the Code of Conduct and only post thumbnails http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cod … s_and_code and use code tags.

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Re: [SOLVED] GNOME sound controls do not work

Has it ever worked, or is this a new development?
Please post the output of
find /etc/systemd
uname -a
and of
pacman -Q linux   (Assuming you are using the stock kernel)

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georgethewhale

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Re: [SOLVED] GNOME sound controls do not work

Has it ever worked, or is this a new development?
Please post the output of
find /etc/systemd
uname -a
and of
pacman -Q linux   (Assuming you are using the stock kernel)

It's been this way since install.

(ins)[bertus@bertus-desktop ~]$ find /etc/systemd
/etc/systemd
/etc/systemd/logind.conf
/etc/systemd/system.conf
/etc/systemd/journald.conf
/etc/systemd/coredump.conf
/etc/systemd/resolved.conf
/etc/systemd/network
/etc/systemd/journal-remote.conf
/etc/systemd/user.conf
/etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf
/etc/systemd/journal-upload.conf
/etc/systemd/system
/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants
/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@tty1.service
/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants
/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/remote-fs.target
/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/org.cups.cupsd.path
/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/NetworkManager.service
/etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service
/etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants
/etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/org.cups.cupsd.socket
/etc/systemd/system/printer.target.wants
/etc/systemd/system/printer.target.wants/org.cups.cupsd.service
/etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service
/etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service
/etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants
/etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/systemd-timesyncd.service
/etc/systemd/user
/etc/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants
/etc/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/pipewire.socket
/etc/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/dirmngr.socket
/etc/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/gpg-agent-extra.socket
/etc/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/pulseaudio.socket
/etc/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/gpg-agent-ssh.socket
/etc/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/p11-kit-server.socket
/etc/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/gpg-agent-browser.socket
/etc/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/gpg-agent.socket
/etc/systemd/user/default.target.wants
/etc/systemd/user/default.target.wants/xdg-user-dirs-update.service

(ins)[bertus@bertus-desktop ~]$ uname -a
Linux bertus-desktop 4.19.2-arch1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Nov 13 21:16:19 UTC 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux

(ins)[bertus@bertus-desktop ~]$ pacman -Q linux
linux 4.19.2.arch1-1

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] GNOME sound controls do not work

Afaik that tool hardlinks pulse and if you don't use pulse this will basically be useless. Pulse seems to be installed, is it properly starting? What's the output of

systemctl --user status pulseaudio
sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*

do you get any output from running the settings in a terminal? If necessary maybe run a strace on it

georgethewhale

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Registered: 2018-11-17

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] GNOME sound controls do not work

Resetting pulse fixed it. (as described in the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pu … up_failed)

Thank you very much.