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Riader8124

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Registered: 2021-02-23

Posts: 5

Fresh install, No Sound from pulseaudio, missing configuration file

Hello, I've installed arch today and and am getting no sound. I have attempted troubleshooting but nothing seems to work.
I noticed also that my sound card seems to be missing(Audigy Fx V20).  Upon running lspci | grep -i audio only two sound cards where detected.

 2d:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio Controller 
2f:00.4 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio Controller

still my onboard audio is also messed up so I think there is a general issue.
Looking at the log produced by journalctl --user-unit pulseaudio.service

 Aug 20 23:37:42 yes systemd[775]: Starting Sound Service...
Aug 20 23:37:42 yes pulseaudio[4171]: Stale PID file, overwriting.
Aug 20 23:37:43 yes pulseaudio[4171]: stat('/etc/pulse/default.pa.d'): No such file or directory
Aug 20 23:37:43 yes pulseaudio[4171]: D-Bus name org.pulseaudio.Server already taken.
Aug 20 23:37:43 yes systemd[775]: Started Sound Service.
-- Boot b84f87692b4f4a5c88d7d9ac822f236d --
Aug 21 00:32:27 yes systemd[797]: Starting Sound Service...
Aug 21 00:32:28 yes pulseaudio[804]: stat('/etc/pulse/default.pa.d'): No such file or directory
Aug 21 00:32:28 yes systemd[797]: Started Sound Service.
Aug 21 00:37:17 yes pulseaudio[804]: Failed to create sink input: sink is suspended.
Aug 21 00:37:17 yes pulseaudio[804]: Failed to create sink input: sink is suspended.
Aug 21 00:37:17 yes pulseaudio[804]: Failed to create sink input: sink is suspended.

I noticed it says there was a missing config file yet I can vim into said file and it looks fine.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks

ZonicTrout

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Registered: 2023-07-20

Posts: 24

Re: Fresh install, No Sound from pulseaudio, missing configuration file

So first Question, why were you installing Arch at 11pm-12am??
Seriously though, I would check your config file, I personally do not have a file at that path and it works fine, I think it's an optional file for extra options
https://www.linuxquestions.org/question … 175700016/
^^ They talk about it more here
I think the line that is the problem is "Failed to create sink input: sink is suspended."
I would try looking into that more, and I'll leave a few links at the bottom that discuss pulseaudio sinks.
The first thing I would try is to  remove the config file (or just move it), and see how that treats you, and please reply the resultss if you can.
Hope This Helps!

links:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=276308
https://unix.stackexchange.com/question … -suspended