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AirsoftHamster

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Registered: 2020-11-10

Posts: 74

[SOLVED] Pulseaudio no input or output devices detected

Hi there, I reinstalled arch on my Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Yoga Gen 4 today, for reasons I wont get into. I used to use KDE Plasma, but, on this install, I decided to switch to openbox as I had been playing around with it at the time and quite liked it. I didn't have any problems with the installation, but I noticed that pulseaudio wasn't detecting the inbuilt mic or speakers. I've never had this problem with this laptop before. Last install they worked out of the box. Did I forget something? Am I just being dumb? I need this laptop for online class so I need my audio to work.

Last edited by AirsoftHamster (2021-05-03 05:44:28)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Pulseaudio no input or output devices detected

How are you starting openbox/xorg? if via .xinitrc make sure you follow the template from: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xinit#xinitrc

What *does* pulseaudio see? post

sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*
aplay -l
pacmd list-cards
pacmd list-sinks

FWIW if there's just not any card at all chances are you lack the sof-firmware and alsa-ucm-conf packages.

AirsoftHamster

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Registered: 2020-11-10

Posts: 74

Re: [SOLVED] Pulseaudio no input or output devices detected

I installed sof-firmware and it fixed the issue. alsa-ucm-conf was already installed.

Thanks for your help!