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bigguyforyou

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Registered: 2023-09-07

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[SOLVED] Sound Card Undetected

Hello, I reinstalled Arch today and I was intent on using Pulse however I can't seem to get it or any other Audio system to work on account of my sound card not being detected by any of them.
In both alsamixer and pulsemixer, the sound card tab lists "no data" or "no sound card found." Yet lspci lists an audio device;

$ lspci | grep audio
0000:00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller (rev 20)

Any help on this would be great, I had Pulse working on Arch before this but I'm not sure what to do from here

Last edited by bigguyforyou (2023-09-07 18:39:18)

ewaller

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Re: [SOLVED] Sound Card Undetected

Do the version numbers reported by uname -a and pacman -Q linux match?

BTW, Welcome to the forums.

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bigguyforyou

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Re: [SOLVED] Sound Card Undetected

Do the version numbers reported by uname -a and pacman -Q linux match?

BTW, Welcome to the forums.

Yes both say 6.4.12-arch1-1.

ewaller

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Re: [SOLVED] Sound Card Undetected

As a sanity check, what are the output off aplay -lL

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bigguyforyou

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Re: [SOLVED] Sound Card Undetected

As a sanity check, what are the output off aplay -lL

 $ aplay -IL
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
lavrate
    Rate Converter Plugin Using Libav/FFmpeg Library
samplerate
    Rate Converter Plugin Using Samplerate Library
speexrate
    Rate Converter Plugin Using Speex Resampler
jack
    JACK Audio Connection Kit
oss
    Open Sound System
pulse
    PulseAudio Sound Server
speex
    Plugin using Speex DSP (resample, agc, denoise, echo, dereverb)
upmix
    Plugin for channel upmix (4,6,8)
vdownmix
    Plugin for channel downmix (stereo) with a simple spacialization
default
    Default ALSA Output (currently PulseAudio Sound Server)

ewaller

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Re: [SOLVED] Sound Card Undetected

Ouch.  Do  you dual boot with Windows?

I think we need to look at your journal.  Upload your journal using sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st  and post the link it returns here.

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bigguyforyou

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Re: [SOLVED] Sound Card Undetected

Ouch.  Do  you dual boot with Windows?

I think we need to look at your journal.  Upload your journal using sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st  and post the link it returns here.

Nope. I have never dualbooted in my life and this computer hasn't had Windows installed since I bought it.

$ sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st
http://0x0.st/HfN-.txt

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Sound Card Undetected

Install sof-firmware and reboot.

Last edited by V1del (2023-09-07 17:52:01)

bigguyforyou

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Registered: 2023-09-07

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Re: [SOLVED] Sound Card Undetected

Install sof-firmware and reboot.

That fixed it. Thank you