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potassium

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Registered: 2024-12-19

Posts: 3

[SOLVED] Pipewire | no sound cards or audio devices

The main problem I'm having is there is no audio coming through whatsoever.
Before I did a reboot, pactl list sinks would give something and I was able to Fn to up the audio (even with no audio coming through), now I'm unable to see any kind of input .
Both of them are active, but when running

pactl list cards

and

 pactl list sinks

It shows nothing and got no audio before or after I rebooted.

I have all relative dependencies installed including alsa-tutils and sof-firmware packages, as-well as made the proper connection to my firewall.

I am incredibly new to Arch so there is likely something I'm missing to get this working, but I am currently stuck on what exactly I should try to troubleshoot the problem. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Here is some info I think could be useful:

aplay -lL; lspci -k; lsusb

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 pipewire
    PipeWire Sound Server 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 PipeWire Media Server) aplay: device_list:279: no soundcards found...
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 7d01 (rev 04)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 1a63
	Kernel driver in use: igen6_edac
	Kernel modules: igen6_edac
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Meteor Lake-P [Intel Arc Graphics] (rev 08)
	DeviceName: VGA
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 1a63
	Kernel driver in use: i915
	Kernel modules: i915, xe
00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Meteor Lake-P Dynamic Tuning Technology (rev 04)

pactl info

Server String: /run/user/1000/pulse/native
Library Protocol Version: 35
Server Protocol Version: 35
Is Local: yes
Client Index: 93
Tile Size: 65472
User Name: kay
Host Name: potassium
Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 1.2.7)
Server Version: 15.0.0
Default Sample Specification: float32le 2ch 48000Hz
Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Default Sink: @DEFAULT_SINK@
Default Source: @DEFAULT_SOURCE@
Cookie: 73f4:660b

sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*

                   USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/seq:        kay        1186 F.... pipewire

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

[url]http://0x0.st/XCS5.txt[/url]

ystemctl --user status pipewire wireplumber

pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Wed 2024-12-18 17:06:17 PST; 45min ago
 Invocation: 656e9d50bb9d412c82f8277c52c6cb25
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire.socket
   Main PID: 1186 (pipewire)
      Tasks: 4 (limit: 18238)
     Memory: 4.4M (peak: 5.1M)
        CPU: 62ms
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pipewire.service
             └─1186 /usr/bin/pipewire

Dec 18 17:06:17 potassium systemd[909]: Started PipeWire Multimedia Service.

● wireplumber.service - Multimedia Service Session Manager
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/li
b/systemd/user/wireplumber.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Wed 2024-12-18 17:06:17 PST; 45min ago
 Invocation: 11af74d4f43d45619b00c62867e0cdeb
   Main PID: 1188 (wireplumber)
      Tasks: 7 (limit: 18238)
     Memory: 4.8M (peak: 5.5M)
        CPU: 152ms
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/wireplumber.service
             └─1188 /usr/bin/wireplumber

Dec 18 17:06:17 potassium systemd[909]: Started Multimedia Service Session Manager.
Dec 18 17:06:17 potassium wireplumber[1188]: wp-internal-comp-load
er: Loading profile 'main'
Dec 18 17:06:17 potassium wireplumber[1188]: default: 
Failed to get percentage from UPower: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner
Dec 18 17:06:17 potassium wireplumber[1188]: [0:00:16.111640284] [1188] ERROR IPAModule ipa_module.cpp:171 Symbol ipaModuleInfo not found
Dec 18 17:06:17 potassium wireplumber[1188]: [0:00:16.111657525] [1188] ERROR IPAModule ipa_module.cpp:291 v4l2-compat.so: IPA module has no valid info
Dec 18 17:06:17 potassium wireplumber[1188]: [0:00:16.111668478] [1188]  INFO Camera camera_manager.cpp:325 libcamera v0.3.2
Dec 18 17:06:18 potassium wireplumber[1188]: s-monitors-utils: skipping device libcamera:\_SB_.PC00.XHCI.RHUB.HS09-9:1.0-3277:0055
Dec 18 17:06:18 potassium wireplumber[1188]: s-monitors-utils: skipping device libcamera:\_SB_.PC00.XHCI.RHUB.HS09-9:1.2-3277:0055

ps -ef | grep pipwire

kay        16297    1603  0 17:54 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto --exclude-dir=.bzr --exclude-dir=CVS --exclude-dir=.git --exclude-dir=.hg --exclude-dir=.svn --exclude-dir=.idea --exclude-dir=.tox --exclude-dir=.venv --exclude-dir=venv pipwire

Last edited by potassium (2024-12-19 03:06:34)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,194

Re: [SOLVED] Pipewire | no sound cards or audio devices

Please use [ code ] instead of [ quote ] for outputs

The aplay command is aplay -lL (lowercase L, uppercase -L) not -i.

pactl list cards | pactl list sinks 

makes no sense you probably meant to do "pactl list cards; pactl list sinks" or so.

Your journal shows a sof card without firmware, install sof-firmware, reboot.

potassium

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Registered: 2024-12-19

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Pipewire | no sound cards or audio devices

Apologies, thank you for letting me know, it has been updated.

I had previously installed the sof-firmware but I believe I did not reboot immediately after installing.
I did a reinstall of it and rebooted which seemed for have fixed my issue.
Thank you for your time, I will mark this as resolved.