[SOLVED] No audio devices detected

ezluci · 2023-09-29 10:43:28

I recently installed Arch Linux on my laptop and no audio device is detected, only Dummy. Please ask me anything in order to fix this issue, becuase I'm a beginner. Commands, more info, anything.

lspci -k

0000:00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller (rev 20)
        Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller
        Kernel driver in use: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
        Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel, snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl

ps ax | grep pipewire

    824 ?        S<sl   0:00 /usr/bin/pipewire
    825 ?        Ssl    0:00 /usr/bin/pipewire-media-session
   2090 pts/1    S+     0:00 grep --color=auto pipewire

systemctl --user status pipewire.service pipewire.socket

● pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Fri 2023-09-29 10:28:31 UTC; 12min ago
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire.socket
   Main PID: 824 (pipewire)
      Tasks: 3 (limit: 18905)
     Memory: 4.6M
        CPU: 26ms
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pipewire.service
             └─824 /usr/bin/pipewire

Sep 29 10:28:31 archlinux systemd[486]: Started PipeWire Multimedia Service.

● pipewire.socket - PipeWire Multimedia System Socket
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.socket; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Fri 2023-09-29 10:28:30 UTC; 12min ago
   Triggers: ● pipewire.service
     Listen: /run/user/1000/pipewire-0 (Stream)
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/pipewire.socket

Sep 29 10:28:30 archlinux systemd[486]: Listening on PipeWire Multimedia System Socket.

aplay -L

null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pipewire
    PipeWire Sound Server
default
    Default ALSA Output (currently PipeWire Media Server)

alsamixer displays "This sound device does not have any controls." on the middle of the screen.

Last edited by ezluci (2023-09-29 15:30:00)

gcb · 2023-09-29 15:04:30

dont' know much either about audio hardware, but today i learned that pipewire-media-session is old and not the way to go.

go with the first option here instead https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWi … on_manager wireplumber

ezluci · 2023-09-29 15:12:42

Sorry, I eventually fixed it and I can't delete this post.
I looked into `sudo dmesg | grep audio` and found out that I didn't have sof-firmware, whatever that is:) (https://github.com/thesofproject/sof-bin).

ewaller · 2023-09-29 15:16:26

I would prefer that we leave this topic as it could be of use to others who search the forums.
Please edit your first post and add [SOLVED] to the beginning of the topic.

ewaller@odin/~[1]% pacman -Si sof-firmware
Repository      : extra
Name            : sof-firmware
Version         : 2.2.6-1
Description     : Sound Open Firmware
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://www.sofproject.org/
Licenses        : custom:BSD  custom:ISC
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : None
Optional Deps   : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Download Size   : 647.54 KiB
Installed Size  : 17843.47 KiB
Packager        : Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Thu 06 Jul 2023 11:51:32 AM PDT
Validated By    : MD5 Sum  SHA-256 Sum  Signature

ewaller@odin/~%

Last edited by ewaller (2023-09-29 15:17:48)

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#1 2023-09-29 10:43:28

[SOLVED] No audio devices detected

#2 2023-09-29 15:04:30

Re: [SOLVED] No audio devices detected

#3 2023-09-29 15:12:42

Re: [SOLVED] No audio devices detected

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Re: [SOLVED] No audio devices detected

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