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Lex0s

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Registered: 2023-10-03

Posts: 27

Audio coming out of only one ouptut consistently

I've been using Arch Linux for half a year and ever since I installed the audio drivers, only one of the speakers of my laptop works, the same thing happens when I plug my headphones. The workaround that I found in both cases is that if I go to pavucontrol and change the volume from the "Output Devices" window, both start working normally, speakers and headphones start to make noise from both parts until I plug/unplug the headphones, then I have to repeat the process again. My question would be: Is there any solution to this? Any method to make it work normally so I don't have to do what I just said over and over?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Audio coming out of only one ouptut consistently

The volume selection you're doing there should normally be stored and remembered. Are you using pipewire/wireplumber? Try removing ~/.local/state/wireplumber and rebooting/restarting wireplumber

Maybe also post

sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*

Last edited by V1del (2024-05-21 09:27:44)

Lex0s

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Registered: 2023-10-03

Posts: 27

Re: Audio coming out of only one ouptut consistently

The volume selection you're doing there should normally be stored and remembered. Are you using pipewire/wireplumber? Try removing ~/.local/state/wireplumber and rebooting/restarting wireplumber

Maybe also post

sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*

Dude, I swear to God I checked the thread at least 3 or 4 times for like 1 week after I posted it and thought that it just got lost. 1 month later I decide to check it to delete it and repost it and see that you replied. Now that I watch the post again, no wonder why it got lost, I didn't even specify what audio server I'm using.

I'm using PulseAudio (I installed mpv and I noticed that it brought some pipewire stuff, but I don't think it is related because this problem with audio started before I downloaded mpv)

This is the result of the command that you mentioned

~ ❮ sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*                                                                                                                                                             19:11:29
                     USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0:  User    793 F.... pulseaudio
/dev/snd/controlC1:  User    793 F.... pulseaudio
/dev/snd/controlC2:  User    793 F.... pulseaudio

It was my bad not to check properly before. I'll be aware of the post in case you still want to help me and reply. Also I need to mention that the audio didn't worked out of the box when I started using Arch, I remember that I had to tweak some settings here and there but I don't remember exactly what I did, I don't think it was something substantial to the problem, but I could be wrong, I'm open to any suggestion

Edit: One last thing. This always happens when I reboot/turn on the computer, this is what PulseAudio Volume Control shows me at booting: https://imgur.com/jy52LK5.png. As you can see, is one of both speakers that always starts in lower volume, always in the same range of 8%

Last edited by Lex0s (2024-06-08 23:23:34)