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insaaniManav

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Registered: 2020-03-15

Posts: 1

audio not working

Hey folks Hope everyone is having a nice day
So I have been  using my arch linux install  since 5 or 6 months and everything was working just fine when today I left my desk for a couple of hours and came back .
After I come back the audio had just stopped working
Now alsa mixer detects my card and says that the audio is at a 100 percent . Also i booted into my windows install on the same computer and the sound card there works just fine
putting pulseaudio in the terminal says
E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
and systemctl status alsa-mixer says
● alsa-restore.service - Save/Restore Sound Card State
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/alsa-restore.service; static; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: inactive (dead)
  Condition: start condition failed at Sun 2020-03-15 20:04:38 IST; 16min ago
             └─ ConditionPathExists=/var/lib/alsa/asound.state was not met

Mar 15 20:04:38 manav.home systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in Save/Restore Sound Card State being skipped.
Now I think I see some errors here but just cant figure out what it would be nice if someone were to point em out
thanks already

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,671

Re: audio not working

All of these "errors" are pretty normal and expected. What's your output for

sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*
aplay -lL
pacmd list-cards
pacmd list-sinks
pacmd list-sink-inputs #During attempted playback

post these in [ code ] [ /code ] tags without the spaces.