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jozhin_s_bazhin

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Registered: 2024-02-13

Posts: 2

[Solved] Sound sometimes not working

The sound of my system doesn't work trough the speakers or headphone jack but does trough usb. The issue changes across reboots where it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Pamixer, aplay -l and  do not list any devices but alsamixer does show my card. I'm pretty sure I enabled all relevant services like pipewire, alsa and wireplumber. The audio does work when tested on the arch iso. I am really out of ideas about what it might be, please help.

Last edited by jozhin_s_bazhin (2024-02-14 08:28:01)

jozhin_s_bazhin

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Registered: 2024-02-13

Posts: 2

Re: [Solved] Sound sometimes not working

*Pavucontrol not pamixer
Some extra info:
- Pipewire.service keeps dying on reboot but starting it does not help
- log:

Feb 14 00:09:21 archlinux systemd[2201]: Started PipeWire Multimedia Service.
Feb 14 00:09:22 archlinux pipewire[2212]: [0:00:13.736491699] [2212] ERROR IPAModule ipa_module.cpp:172 Symbol ipaModuleInfo not found
Feb 14 00:09:22 archlinux pipewire[2212]: [0:00:13.736507264] [2212] ERROR IPAModule ipa_module.cpp:292 v4l2-compat.so: IPA module has no valid info
Feb 14 00:09:22 archlinux pipewire[2212]: [0:00:13.736538701] [2212]  INFO Camera camera_manager.cpp:284 libcamera v0.2.0

- alsa-info.sh outputs this site: https://alsa-project.org/db/?f=50558a2d … bcbb602509
- alsamixer shows

This sound device does not have any controls.

when selecting my soundcard
- "lsmod | grep snd" outputs this:

snd_seq_dummy          12288  0
snd_hrtimer            12288  1
snd_seq               131072  7 snd_seq_dummy
snd_seq_device         16384  1 snd_seq
snd_ctl_led            24576  0
snd_soc_avs_hdaudio    12288  0
snd_soc_avs_probe      12288  0
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     94208  0
snd_hda_codec_realtek   196608  0
snd_hda_codec_generic   114688  1 snd_hda_codec_realtek
snd_soc_avs           221184  0
snd_soc_hda_codec      28672  2 snd_soc_avs,snd_soc_avs_hdaudio
snd_hda_ext_core       36864  2 snd_soc_avs,snd_soc_hda_codec
snd_soc_core          462848  4 snd_soc_avs,snd_soc_hda_codec,snd_soc_avs_probe,snd_soc_avs_hdaudio
snd_compress           28672  2 snd_soc_avs,snd_soc_core
ac97_bus               12288  1 snd_soc_core
snd_pcm_dmaengine      16384  1 snd_soc_core
snd_hda_intel          65536  0
snd_intel_dspcfg       40960  2 snd_soc_avs,snd_hda_intel
snd_intel_sdw_acpi     16384  1 snd_intel_dspcfg
snd_hda_codec         225280  6 snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_soc_avs,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_soc_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_realtek
snd_hda_core          151552  8 snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_soc_avs,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_soc_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_ext_core,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_codec_realtek
snd_hwdep              20480  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm               204800  8 snd_soc_avs,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_compress,snd_soc_core,snd_hda_core,snd_pcm_dmaengine
snd_timer              53248  3 snd_seq,snd_hrtimer,snd_pcm
snd                   159744  15 snd_ctl_led,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hwdep,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_timer,snd_compress,snd_soc_core,snd_pcm
ledtrig_audio          12288  4 snd_ctl_led,snd_hda_codec_generic,dell_wmi,dell_laptop
soundcore              16384  2 snd_ctl_led,snd

Last edited by jozhin_s_bazhin (2024-02-14 08:12:11)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,231

Re: [Solved] Sound sometimes not working

Please wrap outputs in bbcode code tags rather than markdown.

Try blacklisting snd_soc_avs. It seems to share some vids/pids but not properly initialize the card if it's getting picked.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel … acklisting

Last edited by V1del (2024-02-14 00:53:19)