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lucas9823

Member

Registered: 2022-07-16

Posts: 2

No sound at all but sound card is found

Hello,

I am having trouble setting up the sound system. I installed pipewire with the pipewire-pulse and wireplumber, and it seems like there are no available sources or sinks available, or any pulseaudio profiles at all (except for the Pro Audio profile from pipewire that does nothing).

pactl list sources

and

pactl list sinks

output nothing at all. However ALSA works and shows my sound card. I am able to change volumes through alsamixer but no sound at all comes through the speakers.

There are probably more outputs that will be required to troubleshoot the issue, but I am pretty new to Arch and I don't know which would be needed. The wikis state that this part of the audio system should work out of the box, and I haven't found any troubleshooting sections that reference my problem.

Thank you in advance!

Lucas

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,266

Re: No sound at all but sound card is found

Welcome to the boards.

Well does ALSA actually work and actually show you your sound card or are you mistaking the compat layer for pipewire for ana ctual card? What outputs do you get from

aplay -lL
sudo dmesg | grep -iE 'snd|sof'

What card/system is this exactly?

lucas9823

Member

Registered: 2022-07-16

Posts: 2

Re: No sound at all but sound card is found

Hello,

Thank you for your quick reply. I think the card in alsa is real, because it tells me the chip name (Realtek ALC289). Here are the outputs you requested:

aplay -lL:

null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
lavrate
    Rate Converter Plugin Using Libav/FFmpeg Library
samplerate
    Rate Converter Plugin Using Samplerate Library
speexrate
    Rate Converter Plugin Using Speex Resampler
jack
    JACK Audio Connection Kit
oss
    Open Sound System
pipewire
    PipeWire Sound Server
pulse
    PulseAudio Sound Server
speex
    Plugin using Speex DSP (resample, agc, denoise, echo, dereverb)
upmix
    Plugin for channel upmix (4,6,8)
vdownmix
    Plugin for channel downmix (stereo) with a simple spacialization
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 1
    HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=2
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 2
    HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
    HDA NVidia, HDMI 3
    HDMI Audio Output
usbstream:CARD=NVidia
    HDA NVidia
    USB Stream Output
hdmi:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output
usbstream:CARD=Generic
    HD-Audio Generic
    USB Stream Output
default:CARD=Generic_1
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC289 Analog
    Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=Generic_1
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC289 Analog
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC289 Analog
    Front output / input
surround21:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC289 Analog
    2.1 Surround output to Front and Subwoofer speakers
surround40:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC289 Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC289 Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC289 Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC289 Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC289 Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
usbstream:CARD=Generic_1
    HD-Audio Generic
    USB Stream Output
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: Generic_1 [HD-Audio Generic], device 0: ALC289 Analog [ALC289 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

sudo dmesg | grep -iE 'snd|sof':

[    0.258297] pps_core: Software ver. 5.3.6 - Copyright 2005-2007 Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
[    0.282419] PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering for IO (SWIOTLB)
[    0.282420] software IO TLB: mapped [mem 0x00000000a3510000-0x00000000a7510000] (64MB)
[    0.346943] integrity: Loaded X.509 cert 'Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA 2011: 13adbf4309bd82709c8cd54f316ed522988a1bd4'
[    0.346953] integrity: Loaded X.509 cert 'Microsoft Windows Production PCA 2011: a92902398e16c49778cd90f99e4f9ae17c55af53'
[    1.859580] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[    1.859659] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: Handle vga_switcheroo audio client
[    1.859785] snd_hda_intel 0000:04:00.1: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[    1.859815] snd_hda_intel 0000:04:00.1: Handle vga_switcheroo audio client
[    1.974538] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC2D0: autoconfig for ALC289: line_outs=2 (0x14/0x17/0x0/0x0/0x0) type:speaker
[    1.974543] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC2D0:    speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[    1.974544] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC2D0:    hp_outs=1 (0x21/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[    1.974545] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC2D0:    mono: mono_out=0x0
[    1.974546] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC2D0:    inputs:
[    1.974547] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC2D0:      Mic=0x19
[    1.974548] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC2D0:      Internal Mic=0x12
[    2.185637] snd_rn_pci_acp3x 0000:04:00.5: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[    3.110479] snd_hda_intel 0000:04:00.1: bound 0000:04:00.0 (ops amdgpu_dm_audio_component_bind_ops [amdgpu])

According to alsamixer, the card is called HD-Audio Generic and the chip is Realtek ALC289.