Arch Linux

Fluent1s

Member

From: Moscow - Russia

Registered: 2026-01-18

Posts: 1

how to enable sound on Arch Linux

I installed arch linux yesterday but sound wasn't appearing. In others distros was a sound but on arch no sound. settings not working

Devices: ZQE-CAA monitor and RTX 3070 Ti

5hridhyan

Member

From: Asia

Registered: 2025-12-25

Posts: 309

Re: how to enable sound on Arch Linux

pipewire or pulseaudio?, i assume you use pipewire and want `sound` over HDMI, "aplay -l" what is the output?
make sure the pipewire stack and session manager are installed and running.

pacman -Qs pipewire
systemctl --user status pipewire wireplumber

if not

pacman -S pipewire pipewire-alsa pipewire-pulse wireplumber alsa-utils
systemctl --user enable --now  pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber #usually wireplumber is enough

reboot

then check if the HDMI sink, profile appears

wpctl status
pactl list cards

if they do, run "alsamixer" then press f6 select the NVIDIA HDMI make sure it's not muted

if still not appears, what does

lsmod | grep snd_hda
dmesg | grep -i audio

this give you as output?
make sure you have installed NVIDIA drivers like "nvidia","nvidia-utils", also which DE/WM,DM, x11 or wayland, kernel?

edit:
I’ve provided guidance to the best of my knowledge. I won’t be able to follow up further, hope this will be solved Good luck!

Last edited by 5hridhyan (2026-01-28 15:51:42)

---

I expect some mercy from my fellow humans! ^^
Keep your virtue sharpened in a kingdom of carrion, and the throne they offer will be built from your ribs.