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pancakse

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Registered: 2024-08-12

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Speakers not working

So i am using kde but when i change the option in settings to speakers then I open a YouTube video but no sound comes out so I install pulseaudio now my speakers don't work anymore. When I test them it gives this error "Error trying to play a test sound. The system said: "Invalid state"' so can someone help me.

dmtrpy

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Registered: 2024-08-12

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Re: Speakers not working

Did you try rebooting after installing pulseaudio?

pancakse

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Re: Speakers not working

yes

dmtrpy

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Re: Speakers not working

Have you tried pipewire? Pipewire worked great for me with no configuration.

pancakse

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Re: Speakers not working

Have you tried pipewire? Pipewire worked great for me with no configuration.

ill try that

dmtrpy

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Re: Speakers not working

Let me know if you need any help installing it or if it solves your issue!

pancakse

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Re: Speakers not working

Let me know if you need any help installing it or if it solves your issue!

I installed it and rebooted and the settings is still saying

Error trying to play a test sound.
The system said: "Invalid state"

dmtrpy

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Re: Speakers not working

Sorry for the late reply. Did you check if pipewire and/or pulse audio are working?
You can do this with:

systemctl --user status pulseaudio

systemctl --user start pipewire

V1del

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Re: Speakers not working

Post the outputs, in [ code ][ /code] tags of

sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*
sudo dmesg | grep -E 'snd|sof'
aplay -lL
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