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Sue_Perb

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Registered: 2020-06-25

Posts: 32

Sound does not work at all apart from when playing SuperTuxKart

Hi

I recently did a full system upgrade with `yay -Syu` and after that, my sound has never been the same. It simply doesn't work. I can play youtube videos if I mute them, but if I try turning the volume up they then stop playing the video.
However, interestingly, when playing SuperTuxKart (yes, no shame) the audio for this game works perfectly (it plays .ogg files).

Can anyone shine a light on what might be going wrong? I looked in dmesg but nothing weird is showing.

I know I have probably missed some vital log files to send here for troubleshooting purposes but I'm not sure which ones they are.

Thank you

thurstylark

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Registered: 2016-06-02

Posts: 11

Re: Sound does not work at all apart from when playing SuperTuxKart

First thing to know is what got updated, so I'd start with the pacman log.

Are you using pulse or pipewire for your sound server? Are you using any custom pulse configs?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,258

Re: Sound does not work at all apart from when playing SuperTuxKart

sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*
aplay -lL
pactl list cards
pactl list sinks
pactl list sink-inputs

during reproduction