[SOLVED] Sound card/device invisible to Pipewire/Wireplumber

00ein00 · 2024-10-10 23:45:40

So I set up pipewire (and my arch installation) a few months ago, and all of a sudden, after specifically ONLY updating from KDE 6.1 to 6.2,
my sound card is no longer visible/will not function.

'aplay -l' and 'pactl list sinks' do not list my sound card, only lspci displays it:

lspci | grep -i Audio

12:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio Controller 
30:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio Controller
30:00.6 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h/19h HD Audio Controller  <- what I need

The first 2 are the only ones displaying.
What I need, and always used, is the third.

To convey this issue in an easier manner, it looks essentially like this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments … stem_with/

except my setup is basically mute for the past day, I cannot get sound to function, even for a brief temporary moment, I even tried just using plain old pulseaudio, that didn't seem to work either, I have scoured various forums, tried every solution I could find on the Arch wiki, moving config files, starting, stopping, restarting, enabling, disabling systemd services and sockets, reinstalling and uninstalling various pipewire related packages, to no avail, I'm at a complete loss and would like to start hearing sound from my speakers once again, I'd be very grateful if anyone knows/can figure out a solution to this.

btw, for those who were going to recommend this, installing sof-firmware seems to work for everyone else who has had an issue related to this except me, as I've already had that installed.

also, outputs of aplay, pactl & uname for those that might still want to see:

$ aplay -L | grep :CARD
hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=0
hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=1
hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=2
hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=3
hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=4
usbstream:CARD=HDMI
hdmi:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
hdmi:CARD=Generic,DEV=1
hdmi:CARD=Generic,DEV=2
hdmi:CARD=Generic,DEV=3
hdmi:CARD=Generic,DEV=4
hdmi:CARD=Generic,DEV=5
usbstream:CARD=Generic

$ pactl list sinks
Sink #52
        State: SUSPENDED
        Name: alsa_output.pci-0000_12_00.1.hdmi-stereo
        Description: Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio Controller Digital Stereo (HDMI)
        Driver: PipeWire
        Sample Specification: s32le 2ch 48000Hz
        Channel Map: front-left,front-right
        Owner Module: 4294967295
        Mute: no
        Volume: front-left: 39322 /  60% / -13.31 dB,   front-right: 39322 /  60% / -13.31 dB
                balance 0.00
        Base Volume: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB
        Monitor Source: alsa_output.pci-0000_12_00.1.hdmi-stereo.monitor
        Latency: 0 usec, configured 0 usec
        Flags: HARDWARE DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY SET_FORMATS 
        Properties:
                alsa.card = "0"
                alsa.card_name = "HDA ATI HDMI"
                alsa.class = "generic"
                alsa.components = "HDA:1002aa01,00aa0100,00100800"
                alsa.device = "3"
                alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel"
                alsa.id = "HDMI"
                alsa.long_card_name = "HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfcc20000 irq 67"
                alsa.mixer_name = "ATI R6xx HDMI"
                alsa.name = "Philips 190V"
                alsa.resolution_bits = "16"
                alsa.subclass = "generic-mix"
                alsa.subdevice = "0"
                alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0"
                alsa.sync.id = "00000000:00000000:00000000:00000000"
                api.alsa.card.longname = "HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfcc20000 irq 67"
                api.alsa.card.name = "HDA ATI HDMI"
                api.alsa.path = "hdmi:0"
                api.alsa.pcm.card = "0"
                api.alsa.pcm.stream = "playback"
                audio.channels = "2"
                audio.position = "FL,FR"
                card.profile.device = "5"
                device.api = "alsa"
                device.class = "sound"
                device.id = "47"
                device.profile.description = "Digital Stereo (HDMI)"
                device.profile.name = "hdmi-stereo"
                device.routes = "1"
                factory.name = "api.alsa.pcm.sink"
                media.class = "Audio/Sink"
                device.description = "Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio Controller"
                node.name = "alsa_output.pci-0000_12_00.1.hdmi-stereo"
                node.nick = "Philips 190V"
                node.pause-on-idle = "false"
                object.path = "alsa:acp:HDMI:5:playback"
                port.group = "playback"
                priority.driver = "696"
                priority.session = "696"
                factory.id = "19"
                clock.quantum-limit = "8192"
                client.id = "46"
                node.driver = "true"
                node.loop.name = "data-loop.0"
                library.name = "audioconvert/libspa-audioconvert"
                object.id = "52"
                object.serial = "52"
                api.acp.auto-port = "false"
                api.alsa.card = "0"
                api.alsa.use-acp = "true"
                api.dbus.ReserveDevice1 = "Audio0"
                api.dbus.ReserveDevice1.Priority = "-20"
                device.bus = "pci"
                device.bus_path = "pci-0000:12:00.1"
                device.enum.api = "udev"
                device.icon_name = "audio-card-analog-pci"
                device.name = "alsa_card.pci-0000_12_00.1"
                device.nick = "HDA ATI HDMI"
                device.plugged.usec = "10782887"
                device.product.id = "0xab28"
                device.product.name = "Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio Controller"
                device.subsystem = "sound"
                sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.1/0000:10:00.0/0000:11:00.0/0000:12:00.1/sound/card0"
                device.vendor.id = "0x1002"
                device.vendor.name = "Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]"
                device.string = "0"
        Ports:
                hdmi-output-0: HDMI / DisplayPort (type: HDMI, priority: 5900, availability group: Legacy 1, available)
        Active Port: hdmi-output-0
        Formats:
                pcm

$ uname -a
Linux ragnarok 6.11.2-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri, 04 Oct 2024 21:51:11 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Last edited by 00ein00 (2024-10-10 23:52:50)

00ein00 · 2024-10-10 23:51:56

OH MY GOD.
I HAVE SOUND ONCE AGAIN.

I don't know what package specifically fixed it, but enabling the core, extra, and multilib testing repositories did it.
I have spent so much time looking into this, finally decided to post about it, and solved it through a shot in the dark. Amazing.

V1del · 2024-10-10 23:53:35

It's impossible for a KDE update to generally have such an effect (... and specifically and only updating it would be a partial upgrade in almost all cases) and if it doesn't show in aplay -l you have kernel level problems, post an ungrepped

aplay -lL
sudo journalctl -b
pactl list cards

Edit: Most likely the 6.11.3 kernel containing the fix

Last edited by V1del (2024-10-10 23:55:52)

00ein00 · 2024-10-11 00:02:40

V1del wrote:

It's impossible for a KDE update to generally have such an effect (... and specifically and only updating it would be a partial upgrade in almost all cases) and if it doesn't show in aplay -l you have kernel level problems, post an ungrepped
aplay -lL
sudo journalctl -b
pactl list cards
Edit: Most likely the 6.11.3 kernel containing the fix

I'd post the output of that but I guess it would be redundant now, considering it's already fixed, thanks for the reply though.

On further thought I understood it couldn't be related to KDE, though I mainly made that association as, when I updated,
it was all mostly packages related to the plasma 6.2 update (qt-6yada yada) and didn't pay much mind to it.

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#1 2024-10-10 23:45:40

[SOLVED] Sound card/device invisible to Pipewire/Wireplumber

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