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Slim Shady

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Registered: 2021-08-11

Posts: 8

[Solved] No Audio

Hello fellow Arch users.
I recently installed Arch Linux with Plasma KDE Desktop Environment, and I am currently encountering a problem with my Xonar DG audio card, it's not sending any audio. I've installed it's proprietary drivers and I am using pipewire.
This is the output of 'pactl list sinks': https://pastebin.com/D5k8LxuF
Please tell me if you need any more data.
Thanks in advance

Last edited by Slim Shady (2021-08-11 15:57:22)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,310

Re: [Solved] No Audio

Which proprietary driver are you talking about, if I'm not entirely mistaken that should use the open snd_oxygen module included in the kernel by default? If it's like the one I know,  Xonar DG's do not have jack sensing and you need to manually switch an ALSA control that's not exposed by pipewire/pulse. Install alsa-utils and look at the channels exposed in

alsamixer -c 0

There should be one that's probably set to headphone that you can toggle to Multichannel for the back ports.

If that doesn't help post the output of

amixer -c0
pactl list cards

Slim Shady

Member

Registered: 2021-08-11

Posts: 8

Re: [Solved] No Audio

Hi, thanks a lot for the advice!
Switching to multichannel seemed to make sound work!
Have a nice day!

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,310

Re: [Solved] No Audio

Great! Oh and welcome to the Arch BBS