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linuxfan2021

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Registered: 2021-04-30

Posts: 12

Sound randomly stopped working

So I've been using Arch for a while, and usually a few days into the installation my sound will just stop working, and nothing I try fixes it. Usually I just wipe the drive and reinstall Linux, but is there any way to actually fix this error? I've tried to unmute using Alsamixer, and even used pactl to set the default sink. The only sound that works is the beep sound whenever I make an invalid input. any help is appreciated

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btw i use arch

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,327

Re: Sound randomly stopped working

Wiping the drive and reinstalling the system is always the wrong fix for any kind of error and you won't learn anything from it. And if the error is actually due to package/software versions/bugs you are just going to run into it again once the packages match the faulty versions.

There's little information on how you are verifying that it doesn't work. During an attempt to playback what are your outputs for

sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*
aplay -lL
amixer -c0 #Replace that 0 with the correct card index from aplay -l
pacmd list-cards
pacmd list-sinks
pacmd list-sink-inputs

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