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pkrakesh

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Registered: 2022-06-15

Posts: 1

Dummy Ouput in Gnome sound settings

I was a long term Ubuntu user. Now I installed Arch Linux and am pretty happy with it except I am experiencing problem with sound. After completing the installation I have installed gnome desktop. In the sound settings it is shown as Dummy Output. I have searched all over the internet and ArchWiki. But could not figure out the solution.

Output of the pulseaudio -v

I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted
I: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: This is PulseAudio 16.0
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Machine ID is 793a85877c4a4b508c18f5b5c6db4189.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using runtime directory /run/user/1000/pulse.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using state directory /home/pkrakesh/.config/pulse.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using modules directory /usr/lib/pulseaudio/modules.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in system mode: no
E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.

Output of fuser -v /dev/snd/*

                                 USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0:  pkrakesh    891 F.... pulseaudio

I tried killing and restarting pulseaudio but no effect.

When I tried restart pulseaudio using systemctl the following is shown

$ sudo systemctl restart pulseaudio

Failed to restart pulseaudio.service: Unit pulseaudio.service not found.

I am very happy with changing from Ubuntu with more control and performance but I am very frustrated with this because this is affecting my daily work. Please help.