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Akaneoid

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Registered: 2025-03-16

Posts: 2

Sound Problems

Hi, i'm still new to Arch Linux. I enjoy my experience so far yet i have some problems. Especially about system sound.

Previously, I had no problems with sound. I mean, at least it was playing. I didn't like the quality, It wasn't the quality i was signed up for. (Coming from Ubuntu. Despite using same hardware Ubuntu's sound quality was way better than Windows'. I read somewhere it was thanks to ALSA) So, I tried installing ALSA. After ALSA and other system changes I tried playing music from Spotify. No sound ever came. But system sounds were still there. Music was "playing" so i thought it was about what i did. I read that, in first usage you'll have to unmute the voice channels. But I didn't find anything muted. Later i tried playing some sound in Firefox. It didn't load. I searched the net, found a post yet didn't understand how they fixed it... After a while system sounds also disappeared and i'm left in silence. I went to system settings (KDE Plasma) to test my speakers. Window froze. In the following day (today), I tried playing some music from files with VLC not expecting it to work. But it worked. However, I can't use system's Volume Up and Volume Down anymore. Sometimes volume menu shows up on screen for no reason, like right now. It appears when i'm writing this and fades away seconds after and i can't adjust it from menu on task bar as well, it freezes... Thanks to blessing of internet, i found out Firefox's voice is working too. Spotify started to view message "Can't Play This Audio"... System sounds are still gone.

Sorry for the long paragraph, I hope there's someone out there who could help me.

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,157

Re: Sound Problems

What "installed ALSA" did you do exactly?

Window speaker testing in KDE system setting mandates pulseaudio and in which case I'd strongly suggest you install pipewire-alsa and pipewire-pulse. If this doesn't help post the outputs of

aplay -lL
amixer -c0 #or whatever index your speakers are on in aplay -l
pactl list cards
pactl list sinks

post that in [code][/code] tags

Last edited by V1del (2025-03-18 15:32:00)

Akaneoid

Member

Registered: 2025-03-16

Posts: 2

Re: Sound Problems

What "installed ALSA" did you do exactly?

Window speaker testing in KDE system setting mandates pulseaudio and in which case I'd strongly suggest you install pipewire-alsa and pipewire-pulse. If this doesn't help post the outputs of

aplay -lL
amixer -c0 #or whatever index your speakers are on in aplay -l
pactl list cards
pactl list sinks

post that in [code][/code] tags

First one worked! Thank you for your help Have a great week!!!!

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