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1ptb3b

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Registered: 2017-01-17

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[Solved] X1 Carbon 7th speakers stopped being detected

A few months ago, I was able to successfully get my X1 Carbon 7th Gen's speakers working by following the guide in the wiki. I had installed pulseaudio-git and sof-firmware. Both the mic and the speakers worked great.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Le … on_(Gen_7)

Today, after updating packages, my speakers have stopped being detected. I have no sound.

$ sudo pacman -Q sof-firmware
sof-firmware 1.6-1

$ pulseaudio --version
pulseaudio 13.99.1-97-gf003

$ uname -a
5.8.13-arch1-1

Anyone else run into this? How do I debug?

Hm. Server seems to be failing to start.

$ systemctl --user status pulseaudio.service
● pulseaudio.service - Sound Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: inactive (dead)
TriggeredBy: ● pulseaudio.socket

$ journalctl --user --identifier pulseaudio
Oct 05 pulseaudio[926]: ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 926, errno = 32
Oct 05 pulseaudio[170099]: Stale PID file, overwriting.
Oct 05 pulseaudio[170099]: Unable to contact D-Bus session bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoServer: Failed to connect to socket /run/user/1000/bus: Connection refused
Oct 05 pulseaudio[170099]: Failed to load module "module-jackdbus-detect" (argument: "channels=2"): initialization failed.

Last edited by 1ptb3b (2020-10-07 01:31:47)

1ptb3b

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Registered: 2017-01-17

Posts: 95

Re: [Solved] X1 Carbon 7th speakers stopped being detected

Wow, okay. Not sure why the service fails to start on boot, but this command to restart the service fixes everything again.

$ systemctl --user restart pulseaudio.service

Unfortunately, I have to do this on every boot.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [Solved] X1 Carbon 7th speakers stopped being detected

Your user session is broken and you seem to be starting multiple versions of pulse, how do you log in/start X? (Random sidenote, the current pulseaudio repo package should be an up to date snapshot, there's no need to use the -git release specifically now)

Do you have specific custom invocations of pulseaudio in some startup files?

Maybe post your .xinitrc if you use that and more generally so we can check what actually happens a

systemctl status
sudo journalctl -b

from a boot with the problem.

Last edited by V1del (2020-10-06 06:55:47)

1ptb3b

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Registered: 2017-01-17

Posts: 95

Re: [Solved] X1 Carbon 7th speakers stopped being detected

there's no need to use the -git release specifically now

Wow. Actually, switching back to mainline pulseaudio fixed everything again.

$ sudo pacman -Rdd pulseaudio-git
$ sudo pacman -S pulseaudio

Thanks!