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domal

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Registered: 2022-06-06

Posts: 5

[SOLVED] No Audio on new Arch Install

Hello,

Just installed Arch yesterday and I haven't been able to get any audio output. I have configured ALSA to use the correct soundcard by default and I've made sure everything is unmuted in alsamixer. Speaker-test appears to run without errors but there is no sound:

speaker-test -c 2

speaker-test 1.2.8

Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)
Buffer size range from 32 to 96000
Period size range from 16 to 48000
Using max buffer size 96000
Periods = 4
was set period_size = 24000
was set buffer_size = 96000
 0 - Front Left
 1 - Front Right
Time per period = 3.986975
 0 - Front Left
 1 - Front Right

Here is the output of aplay:

aplay -lL

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 10: HDMI 4 [HDMI 4]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 11: HDMI 5 [HDMI 5]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 12: HDMI 6 [HDMI 6]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 13: HDMI 7 [HDMI 7]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 14: HDMI 8 [HDMI 8]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 15: HDMI 9 [HDMI 9]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 16: HDMI 10 [HDMI 10]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 17: HDMI 11 [HDMI 11]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [ZOWIE XL LCD]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 10: HDMI 4 [HDMI 4]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 11: HDMI 5 [HDMI 5]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 12: HDMI 6 [HDMI 6]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: Audio [USB Audio], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: Audio [USB Audio], device 1: USB Audio [USB Audio #1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: Audio [USB Audio], device 2: USB Audio [USB Audio #2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: Audio [USB Audio], device 3: USB Audio [USB Audio #3]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 3: Microphone [Yeti Stereo Microphone], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

And the output of amixer:

amixer -c2

Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right - Rear Left - Rear Right - Front Center - Woofer - Side Left - Side Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 87
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 60 [69%] [-20.25dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 60 [69%] [-20.25dB] [on]
  Rear Left: Playback 60 [69%] [-20.25dB] [on]
  Rear Right: Playback 60 [69%] [-20.25dB] [on]
  Front Center: Playback 60 [69%] [-20.25dB] [on]
  Woofer: Playback 60 [69%] [-20.25dB] [on]
  Side Left: Playback 60 [69%] [-20.25dB] [on]
  Side Right: Playback 60 [69%] [-20.25dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',1
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 87
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 60 [69%] [-20.25dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 60 [69%] [-20.25dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',2
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'Line',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 39
  Front Left: Capture 23 [59%] [0.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 23 [59%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 39
  Front Left: Capture 23 [59%] [0.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 23 [59%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Analog In',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 39
  Front Left: Capture 23 [59%] [0.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 23 [59%] [0.00dB] [on]

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Last edited by domal (2022-11-02 22:16:45)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,261

Re: [SOLVED] No Audio on new Arch Install

Your "first" card is a HDMI card not plugged into anything. What kind of device are you looking to have audio out of ? From general logistics here does playing to the USB card with

speaker-test -Dhw:2,0 -c2 #or -Dhw:2,2 or -Dhw:2.3 

work? What's your output for

 sudo dmesg | grep -E 'snd|sof'

?

domal

Member

Registered: 2022-06-06

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] No Audio on new Arch Install

The device I'm using is just an headset w/ an aux jack plugged into the front of my PC. I'm also dual-booting Windows from the same PC and the audio works fine there. The first command ran with no errors but there was still no sound (I also tried 2,2 and 2,3):

speaker-test -Dhw:2,0 -c2

speaker-test 1.2.8

Playback device is hw:2,0
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)
Buffer size range from 32 to 96000
Period size range from 16 to 48000
Using max buffer size 96000
Periods = 4
was set period_size = 24000
was set buffer_size = 96000
 0 - Front Left
 1 - Front Right
Time per period = 3.987806
 0 - Front Left
 1 - Front Right

Here's the output of the second command:

 sudo dmesg | grep -E 'snd|sof'

[    0.109250] software IO TLB: area num 32.
[    0.476100] PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering for IO (SWIOTLB)
[    0.476101] software IO TLB: mapped [mem 0x00000000324ab000-0x00000000364ab000] (64MB)
[    0.608071] integrity: Loaded X.509 cert 'Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA 2011: 13adbf4309bd82709c8cd54f316ed522988a1bd4'
[    0.608081] integrity: Loaded X.509 cert 'Microsoft Windows Production PCA 2011: a92902398e16c49778cd90f99e4f9ae17c55af53'
[    3.490898] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[    3.491493] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops i915_audio_component_bind_ops [i915])
[    3.492303] snd_hda_intel 0000:06:00.1: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[    3.492666] snd_hda_intel 0000:06:00.1: Disabling MSI
[    3.492679] snd_hda_intel 0000:06:00.1: Handle vga_switcheroo audio client
[   10.908838] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio

V1del

Forum Moderator

Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,261

Re: [SOLVED] No Audio on new Arch Install

What exact system/mainboard is this? There's no indication of a normal integrated card, this "can" be normal and it would be the USB device you need to get working in that case, we forgot 2,1 which is another option.

domal

Member

Registered: 2022-06-06

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] No Audio on new Arch Install

Running the following command produced sound!

speaker-test -Dhw:2,1 -c2

I then specified device #1 as the default in my ALSA config, and my sound now works. Thank you for your help!