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anonythl

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[SOLVED] HP Spectre x360 2021: I cannot figure out audio :(

I have been attempting to get audio to work all day (I even went to the second page of Google!) on my new Spectre, but to no avail.

• "amixer" shows me seven Masters? ('PGA1.0 1 Master',0 , 'PGA2.0 2 Master',0 and so on)

• "alsamixer" segfaults for some reason.

• Thanks to the problem above, I manually set all of my mixer controls to 100% (https://pastebin.com/aZDVSQVt), yet audio still doesn't work.

What I have tried

• I have installed "sof-firmware."

• "$ pacman -Q | grep alsa" outputs:

  alsa-card-profiles 1:0.3.32-1
  alsa-firmware 1.2.4-2
  alsa-lib 1.2.5.1-3
  alsa-plugins 1:1.2.5-2
  alsa-tools 1.2.5-1
  alsa-topology-conf 1.2.5.1-1
  alsa-ucm-conf 1.2.5.1-1
  alsa-utils 1.2.5.1-1
  zita-alsa-pcmi 0.3.2-3

• "/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf":

  options snd-hda-intel model=laptop

• "/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf":

  blacklist snd_hda_intel
  blacklist snd_soc_skl

I need quite a bit of help...

Last edited by anonythl (2021-07-27 11:18:55)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] HP Spectre x360 2021: I cannot figure out audio :(

Remove both of these modprobe files, reboot and post

sudo dmesg | grep -i 'snd|sof'
aplay -lL
#If pulse/pipewire
pactl list cards
pactl list sinks

anonythl

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Re: [SOLVED] HP Spectre x360 2021: I cannot figure out audio :(

Thanks for responding!

"sudo dmesg | grep -i 'snd|sof'" outputs nothing.
"aplay -lL" outputs this: https://pastebin.com/fgtZwm3c
Both "pactl" commands give connection failures

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] HP Spectre x360 2021: I cannot figure out audio :(

Ah fuck, correct would be grep -iE 'snd|sof'

In any case without the random modprobe files you actually have real devices, test whether you can play to them directly

speaker-test -Dhw:0,0 -c2
speaker-test -Dhw:0,2 -c2

in theory one of these two should give you output.

However we should also fix the fact that your pulse seems to be broken/not accessible. Which environment do you start and how do you start it? What's your output for

systemctl --user status pulseaudio
loginctl session-status

anonythl

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Re: [SOLVED] HP Spectre x360 2021: I cannot figure out audio :(

"sudo dmesg | grep -iE 'snd|sof'" output: https://pastebin.com/6aHZTHb3 (I know I just titled the pastebin wrong (dmenu instead of dmesg, whoops))
"speaker-test -Dhw:0,2 -c2" works! However, "0,0" doesn't.

I am using i3-gaps.

The systemctl command outputs "Unit pulseaudio.service could not be found."
loginctl session-status: https://pastebin.com/Gnf8XGyC

anonythl

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Re: [SOLVED] HP Spectre x360 2021: I cannot figure out audio :(

Also, I use startx for i3

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] HP Spectre x360 2021: I cannot figure out audio :(

Post your .xinitrc. Do you want to use pipewire or pulseaudio? If you don't and you just want to fix ALSA create a /etc/asound.conf with

defaults.pcm.device 2

.

anonythl

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Re: [SOLVED] HP Spectre x360 2021: I cannot figure out audio :(

~/.xinitrc: https://pastebin.com/qDjEiBAA

I don't use either pulseaudio or pipewire.

anonythl

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Re: [SOLVED] HP Spectre x360 2021: I cannot figure out audio :(

I also added a /etc/asound.conf, but that did not work (even after rebooting).

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] HP Spectre x360 2021: I cannot figure out audio :(

Please define "didn't work", which exact command/program did you try and use for testing?

anonythl

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Re: [SOLVED] HP Spectre x360 2021: I cannot figure out audio :(

youtube.com on Firefox . (It didn't play audio)

Last edited by anonythl (2021-07-25 22:00:44)

anonythl

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Re: [SOLVED] HP Spectre x360 2021: I cannot figure out audio :(

The wiki also says I should use apulse if audio doesn't come out of other programs: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Advanc … #No_output
It still doesn't change anything (when I run "apulse firefox").

Last edited by anonythl (2021-07-25 22:30:11)

anonythl

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Re: [SOLVED] HP Spectre x360 2021: I cannot figure out audio :(

I realized that I am pretty much an idiot . I realized that I was actually supposed to install "pulseaudio," and that it is required by Firefox to play audio.
The thing is, I actually installed and uninstalled "pulseaudio" before, it's just that I had to set the default sink to the last index:

pacmd set-default-sink 4

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] HP Spectre x360 2021: I cannot figure out audio :(

Firefox doesn't inherently require pulseaudio, but it's ALSA implementation is very weird and I'd probably have opted to recommend you try pulse anyway.

If this is [SOLVED] please mark it as such by editing the title in your first post