[SOLVED]Audio Broken

NewtonPL · 2022-12-31 13:45:16

Just a heads up: I'm a total noob when it comes to audio.

Earlier today, my audio didn't work, my headphones showed up on pavucontrol, although youtube videos didn't want to play, and video files on my PC didn't play sound.
I checked audio troubleshooting and nothing there worked either, i tried unmuting everything, rebooting the PC, trying different audio devices.
I then tried installing PulseAudio

sudo pacman -S pulseaudio

but that didn't solve my issue, so i installed pipewire again

sudo pacman -S pipewire wireplumber

Now the audio is completely broken: pavucontrol halts on "Establishing connection to PulseAudio, please wait", alsamixer shows me PipeWire as my sound card with only the Master channel.

How can I fix my audio? I was thinking of removing any leftovers from pipewire, pulseaudio, etc. and installing pipewire from scratch.

Cheers, NewtonPL

Last edited by NewtonPL (2023-01-01 12:23:49)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2022-12-31 13:53:51

Before diving into configuration first load up a live ISO image (preferably one with a graphical desktop) and check if sound works there so we can eliminate hardware failure.

NewtonPL · 2022-12-31 14:21:17

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Before diving into configuration first load up a live ISO image (preferably one with a graphical desktop) and check if sound works there so we can eliminate hardware failure.

The worst case scenario happened...
I booted Windows 10 (dual boot) and the audio icon has an X next to it and says "no audio devices found.
I tried different ports and devices.

guess I'll have to invest in a sound card

ewaller · 2022-12-31 17:40:08

Let's see how dead it really is. What is the output of lspci ?

NewtonPL · 2022-12-31 19:36:36

ewaller wrote:

Let's see how dead it really is. What is the output of lspci ?

lspci is for PCI buses, the sound card I use(d) is the integrated one that's on my motherboard (Gigabyte B250-FinTech)
Any command to check how dead it is?

Slithery · 2022-12-31 19:45:27

It will likely be attached to the PCI bus internally. The correct command to use is lspci.

NewtonPL · 2022-12-31 21:06:16

Slithery wrote:

It will likely be attached to the PCI bus internally. The correct command to use is lspci.

[newton@hackmachine ~]$ sudo lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 05)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6th-10th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller (x16) (rev 05)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 610 (rev 04)
00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/v6 / E3-1500 v5 / 6th/7th/8th Gen Core Processor Gaussian Mixture Model
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 200 Series/Z370 Chipset Family USB 3.0 xHCI Controller
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH CSME HECI #1
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH SATA controller [AHCI mode]
00:1b.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH PCI Express Root Port #21 (rev f0)
00:1b.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH PCI Express Root Port #22 (rev f0)
00:1b.6 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH PCI Express Root Port #23 (rev f0)
00:1b.7 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH PCI Express Root Port #24 (rev f0)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH PCI Express Root Port #5 (rev f0)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH PCI Express Root Port #6 (rev f0)
00:1c.6 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH PCI Express Root Port #7 (rev f0)
00:1c.7 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH PCI Express Root Port #8 (rev f0)
00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH PCI Express Root Port #9 (rev f0)
00:1d.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH PCI Express Root Port #10 (rev f0)
00:1d.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH PCI Express Root Port #11 (rev f0)
00:1d.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH PCI Express Root Port #12 (rev f0)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH LPC Controller (B250)
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation 200 Series/Z370 Chipset Family Power Management Controller
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH HD Audio
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation 200 Series/Z370 Chipset Family SMBus Controller
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G96C [GeForce 9500 GT] (rev a1)
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 0c)
[newton@hackmachine ~]$

It sees the audio card as

00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH HD Audio

What should I do next?

NewtonPL · 2022-12-31 21:55:40

lspci -k

00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH HD Audio
	Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device a182
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
	Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel

if that helps

NewtonPL · 2022-12-31 22:22:44

Ok so audio works on Windows now. The fix was pretty simple, I kicked the PC. I don't know if audio works on Linux, as my dad needs to use the PC now, so I can't test it. I will give you an update tomorrow.

Last edited by NewtonPL (2022-12-31 22:25:27)

ewaller · 2023-01-01 02:08:25

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NewtonPL · 2023-01-01 08:26:09

Audio works on Linux too.
Marking post as solved.

Thanks for the help!

Arch Linux

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