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Todaug

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Registered: 2018-10-01

Posts: 15

[SOLVED] No sound - PulseAudio enabled (i3 / RetroArch / Kodi)

I just installed i3 and my sound does not work.

I installed pulseaudio and activated it with

 systemctl --user enable pulseaudio 

I also tried to start it with

 start-pulseaudio-x11 

I do not know what to check next.

I'm starting i3 with this command

startx /usr/bin/i3

Last edited by Todaug (2019-03-08 20:59:53)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 78,600

Re: [SOLVED] No sound - PulseAudio enabled (i3 / RetroArch / Kodi)

"Does not work" is no usable problem description.
If the sound worked w/o PA see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pu … leshooting - or just kick PA.
Also read  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio on how to obtain statūs and to figure that PA is socket activated and enabling a user service is not required.

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,426

Re: [SOLVED] No sound - PulseAudio enabled (i3 / RetroArch / Kodi)

Your command to start X/i3 will not parse a ~/.xinitrc and prevent your proper session initialization scripts from being ran and thus pulse being properly started, set up a proper xinitrc and use just startx.

Should that not suffice post the outputs of

systemctl --user status pulseaudio
sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*
loginctl session-status
#If pulse is actually running, during attempted playback
pacmd list-cards
pacmd list-sinks
pacmd list-sink-inputs

Todaug

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Registered: 2018-10-01

Posts: 15

Re: [SOLVED] No sound - PulseAudio enabled (i3 / RetroArch / Kodi)

Ok, I solved my problem today by updating my packages. I had to say that I also updated my packages yesterday, so I don't really know what could have happened. I guess I'll never really know.

By the way, thank you V1del for your help :-)

Last edited by Todaug (2019-03-08 01:44:47)