[SOLVED] My speakers are mute.

Drzony · 2023-08-21 15:42:31

Hello! I have a problem. I just had a fresh install of Arch on my laptop and speakers are mute.

The weird thing is, that my laptop does detect the audio. It does detect my sound card, speakers and microphone. Audio does work, but it doesn't come out of the speakers. I even installed audacity and tried recording something to see if my microphone works. And it works perfectly! I recorded and exported a file without any struggle and tried to play it on my phone(because I couldn't hear playback on computer) to see if it actually works. It does.

There doesn't seem to be any error with my audio except that it doesn't come out of my speakers.

I installed sof-firmware, alsa-utils and pulseaudio-alsa, but nothing fixed my problem. (Yes, I did reboot after each installation)

I unmuted everything on alsamixer, but still nothing.

I tested the audio multiple times from settings and through command:

speaker-test -c 2

Both work just fine. I don't get any errors or anything, but I still hear nothing.

And what makes it even weirder is, that I had arch on this laptop before(it was even this month) and I didn't encounter any issues with audio then.

I tried reinstalling it like three times and even re-burned the flash drive with freshly downloaded .iso to see if it wasn't the image's fault. Still nothing.

Last edited by Drzony (2023-08-21 19:10:25)

Trilby · 2023-08-21 16:17:30

I'd guess that the default / first device changed (and may be on HDMI for example). This can even happen randomly between boots if you don't explicilty set a priority and / or module loading order.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Advanc … sound_card

Drzony · 2023-08-21 17:08:10

Okay, what the hell... I don't know, what happened, but I turned on my laptop and my speakers work. Everything's fine. Just plugged in my earphones and they work too. Maybe it needed some time before speakers or installed packages started working or just like above, maybe the device changed randomly between boots, I don't know. But speakers work.

I don't know if it should be marked as solved, cause there isn't any solution other than the problem solved itself. Aslo, I'm not sure if it will keep up. Maybe I'll write here in case I encounter any issue with the speakers again and I won't know, what to do.

Trilby · 2023-08-21 18:02:49

Drzony wrote:

... maybe the device changed randomly between boots

Yeah, just like I said was likely to happen.

Drzony wrote:

Aslo, I'm not sure if it will keep up. Maybe I'll write here in case I encounter any issue with the speakers again and I won't know, what to do.

No, it will not likely keep up - each boot will pretty much randomly either work or not work ... as I had already said. That is until you implement the proper solution which I linked to in my last post.

Drzony · 2023-08-21 18:45:30

Okay, I've just set the order. Everything is working fine.

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#1 2023-08-21 15:42:31

[SOLVED] My speakers are mute.

#2 2023-08-21 16:17:30

Re: [SOLVED] My speakers are mute.

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Re: [SOLVED] My speakers are mute.

#4 2023-08-21 18:02:49

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#5 2023-08-21 18:45:30

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