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To give a bit of background, I am using pipewire (and pipewire-pulse) and wireplumber for audio. I think my speaker is "Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio" and the audio driver is snd_hda_intel. Ever since I used pipewire, there has been many issues with audio, especially with the speakers. Once I fixed the issue pipewire not being able to find audio cards, the issue about the speaker came. I researched online for a long time out of desperation and eventually got the speakers to work, but after a reboot, the speakers were muted again, and I had to manually try to enable them again. One issue I got before was when the speakers started working the volume wouldn't change when I adjusted the volume by using volume buttons, which only affected the analog stereo output and not pro audio. Another issue was when the speakers were playing, it was just the front left one and not the front right one. I did reinstall pipewire multiple times and was constantly switching between pipewire-media-session and wireplumber to fix the issue
As of right now, I have been researching for a long time. Currently, I took a look at pavucontrol and it said that my speakers are unavailable. The headphone jack (possibly) was displayed as plugged in even though I never plugged in anything at the headphone jack. I could see that the system sounds were playing, but I couldn't hear it. The other audio which are from different applications didn't have any sound at all. I hope someone not only can help me fix this issue, but also give me tips if I encounter any problems like this. Thank you.
EDIT:
I got the sound back, but I still experience the issue with the volume not adjusting even though I'm using volume buttons to adjust and only the left speaker playing. I am still using pipewire and wireplumber and the audio driver is the same. I have a feeling that the issue I faced before would come back again unfortunately because that happened to me more than once. Also, the audio sometimes cuts out automatically and doesn't play sound, even when the speakers are available
Last edited by sdvscv (2024-01-04 22:45:28)
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Ok quick update sound was working again after a system sound was played. I solved the front right speaker issue only for a minute by messing with some things in alsamixer and I couldn't get the sound from the right speaker back. Then I found that in alsamixer while the master volume didn't change the actual volume, the PCM did, but when I adjust that in alsamixer, the whole system mutes until I adjust the audio by using the volume buttons. Whenever I use the volume buttons to adjust the master volume, the PCM volume always changes back to around 99, sometimes to 98 or 97. I don't know why this happened but I did notice that when I checked the status of the pipewire sessions there were input output errors. When I use pro audio however, the volume works and everything, but I don't see anything change in alsamixer. But then when I go back to analog stereo duplex, all the sound is gone again for a moment and I had to change ports to get it back. Perhaps I shouldn't be using alsa to solve the issue for my analog stereo output? I'm 50% sure it's a problem with alsa. Any help would be appreciated
Last edited by sdvscv (2024-01-05 01:12:56)
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