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I once installed dracut not thinking it would break my system. thinking it was just some normal program/utility. but it ended up making my system unbootable. long story short. I fixed it with a chroot and uninstalled dracut and got it booting again. I also made sure to learn about initramfs. I didnt know dracut would wreck my system, there was no warning. so after that, xorg was completely broken. I fxed the xorg issue and got DWM working again (I gave Xorg suid. which kinda is a shitty fix for security reasons. and I also use harden kernel so I care). then I did an update. I honestly dont rembmer if it worked or not after the dracut issue. it could not be the update. but I had an update and my audio is now crap. I cant hear anything. these are the errors
aplay -l
aplay: device_list:279: no soundcards found...
alsamixer
ALSA lib confmisc.c:855:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:5205:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_inum returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:422:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:5205:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1342:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:5205:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:5728:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib control.c:1575:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL default
cannot open mixer: No such file or directory
and this is what lspci says
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio (rev 21)
Ive never had made a forum post before or ever asked online for help. I allawys used google or chatgpt to fix my issues. I have read so many forum posts. but none of them had this extact issue., the most closestn fix ive heard is "install sof-firmware and then reboot" I tried that. yes I have sof-firmware installed. Ive reinstalled it and rebooted many times.
warning: sof-firmware-2025.05.1-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Packages (1) sof-firmware-2025.05.1-1
Total Installed Size: 37.79 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 0.00 MiB
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