[SOLVED] No audio on new installation | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

nocturne hornet Sep 6, 2023, 9:43 PM

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I've just completed a new install of arch with KDE Plasma on a laptop, and I've just gone head and installed pipewire (jack,asla,pulse) and enabled them
However, I still have no sound. I can't find anything else I'm supposed to do to get the speakers working, in the past it's always just worked immediately.

thorny storm Sep 6, 2023, 9:47 PM

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i don't really know but did you installed wireplumber ?

nocturne hornet Sep 6, 2023, 9:47 PM

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is that a necessity here?

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well, grabbed it anyway, no difference

split oar Sep 6, 2023, 9:49 PM

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nocturne hornet well, grabbed it anyway, no difference

laptop?

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install sof-firmware

nocturne hornet Sep 6, 2023, 9:50 PM

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aighty

thorny storm Sep 6, 2023, 9:50 PM

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Also in https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire usage section .. you have to enable systemd units

PipeWire

split oar Sep 6, 2023, 9:50 PM

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as for wireplumber
also install pipewire pipewire-pulse pipewire-alsa pipewire-jack

nocturne hornet Sep 6, 2023, 9:50 PM

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yeah done that

split oar Sep 6, 2023, 9:50 PM

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then enable user services for wireplumber pipewire and pipewire-pulse

nocturne hornet Sep 6, 2023, 9:50 PM

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oh I didn't enable wireplumber service

split oar Sep 6, 2023, 9:51 PM

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split oar install sof-firmware

this and linux-firmware are necessary

thorny storm Sep 6, 2023, 9:51 PM

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Try rebooting once as you just installed wireplumber

split oar Sep 6, 2023, 9:51 PM

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because there are drivers needed for prop hardware
sof-firmware are for onboard audio

nocturne hornet Sep 6, 2023, 9:51 PM

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I should probably enable the service first

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systemctl enable wireplumber.service returns does not exist

thorny storm Sep 6, 2023, 9:54 PM

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Try

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--user

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systemctl --user enable .....

nocturne hornet Sep 6, 2023, 9:54 PM

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that was it

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thank you

thorny storm Sep 6, 2023, 9:54 PM

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What i usually do is watch some vudeo along with following arch wiki

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Good .. glad i could help

nocturne hornet Sep 6, 2023, 9:55 PM

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should I expect a restart to be necessary before it'll work

strange tendon Sep 6, 2023, 9:55 PM

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no, a relog should do it

thorny storm Sep 6, 2023, 9:55 PM

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Not really sure .. but do it just in case

nocturne hornet Sep 6, 2023, 9:55 PM

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oh yeah relog

strange tendon Sep 6, 2023, 9:56 PM

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enable --now enables it for next restart and starts it now

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systemctl --user start <service>

thorny storm Sep 6, 2023, 9:56 PM

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strange tendon no, a relog should do it

Whats that ? A short summay .. google didnt returned anything

strange tendon Sep 6, 2023, 9:56 PM

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relogging from tty via exit or display manager, most of the things don't need a reboot

thorny storm Sep 6, 2023, 9:57 PM

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Ohk ... never heard this term before .. nice

nocturne hornet Sep 6, 2023, 9:57 PM

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okay another thing, pipewire pulse service also doesn't exist, even with --user

thorny storm Sep 6, 2023, 9:59 PM

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nocturne hornet okay another thing, pipewire pulse service also doesn't exist, even with --user

From wiki

Install pipewire-pulse. It will replace pulseaudio and pulseaudio-bluetooth. Reboot, re-login or stop pulseaudio.service and start the pipewire-pulse.service user unit to see the effect.

Normally, no further action is needed, as the user service pipewire-pulse.socket should be enabled automatically by the package.

nocturne hornet Sep 6, 2023, 9:59 PM

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oh well I've already rebooted since installing that

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so I guess I'm supposed to be good

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still no audio though

thorny storm Sep 6, 2023, 10:00 PM

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But you still have to start the pipewire-pulse.servixe

nocturne hornet Sep 6, 2023, 10:00 PM

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ah

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okay got it

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there was no output so I assume it worked

thorny storm Sep 6, 2023, 10:01 PM

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There are two tyoe of units .. system level and user level

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You generally have to look into readme which command it takes

nocturne hornet Sep 6, 2023, 10:02 PM

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still no audio
I also checked the service status and it was running fine

strange tendon Sep 6, 2023, 10:03 PM

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pactl info?

thorny storm Sep 6, 2023, 10:04 PM

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Sorry i dont know anything further ...
maybe see this and follow wiki or someone here can help .. i am also new so really dont know that much

nocturne hornet Sep 6, 2023, 10:05 PM

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strange tendon `pactl info`?

Library Protocol Version: 35
Server Protocol Version: 35
Is Local: yes
Client Index: 62
Tile Size: 65472
User Name: maria
Host Name: B0-DC-EF-6E-B0-59
Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 0.3.79)
Server Version: 15.0.0
Default Sample Specification: float32le 2ch 48000Hz
Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Default Sink: auto_null
Default Source: @DEFAULT_SOURCE@
Cookie: f45b:eb0a```

strange tendon Sep 6, 2023, 10:06 PM

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looks like the issue i had

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move /etc/pipewire to somewhere else you can remember, and reinstall pipewire, check if /etc/pipewire exists again
relog and see if that works

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can't remember where the config was

nocturne hornet Sep 6, 2023, 10:08 PM

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just the pipewire package?

strange tendon Sep 6, 2023, 10:08 PM

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yis

nocturne hornet Sep 6, 2023, 10:09 PM

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it does exist again yes

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has not helped though

strange tendon Sep 6, 2023, 10:11 PM

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systemctl --user restart pipewire
systemctl --user restart wireplumber

do you have pulseaudio enabled? if so they don't work together

nocturne hornet Sep 6, 2023, 10:11 PM

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I believe pa was removed when pipewire was installed as they conflict

strange tendon Sep 6, 2023, 10:12 PM

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pipewire is there but it's not detecting the device

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lsusb shows the headphones or audio source?

nocturne hornet Sep 6, 2023, 10:14 PM

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Would a laptop's built in speakers show there?

strange tendon Sep 6, 2023, 10:15 PM

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i don't think so but lspci should (also a reboot might be worth trying simd )

nocturne hornet Sep 6, 2023, 10:15 PM

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strange tendon i don't think so but lspci should (also a reboot might be worth trying <:simd:10...

sure as a sanity check

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IT'S WORKING

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REBOOT FIXED IT

strange tendon Sep 6, 2023, 10:16 PM

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thorny storm Sorry i dont know anything further ... maybe see this and follow wiki or someo...

i'm sorry for doubting you

nocturne hornet Sep 6, 2023, 10:16 PM

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lmao

strange tendon Sep 6, 2023, 10:16 PM

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beans

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mark as solved and enjoy

nocturne hornet Sep 6, 2023, 10:17 PM

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I will now reboot constantly whenever I change anything following this one experience

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thank you!

strange tendon Sep 6, 2023, 10:34 PM

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most things usually just require a relog, when i load nvidia module and relog it just works instead of rebooting, seems pipewire is a different case (and it's a little too overlook-ish to look at the code)

nocturne hornet Sep 6, 2023, 10:42 PM

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wym overlook-ish?

strange tendon Sep 6, 2023, 10:49 PM

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to find out what it loads and what it needs, just to see if it really needs a reboot or not lols

nocturne hornet Sep 6, 2023, 10:49 PM

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aah

snow bane Sep 7, 2023, 11:58 AM

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nocturne hornet I've just completed a new install of arch with KDE Plasma on a laptop, and I've ...

Check for sof-firmware

nocturne hornet Sep 7, 2023, 12:01 PM

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Oh how do you mark a thread as solved

snow bane Sep 7, 2023, 12:02 PM

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... solved

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nocturne hornet Sep 7, 2023, 12:02 PM

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Ah okay

snow bane Sep 7, 2023, 12:02 PM

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nocturne hornet Ah okay

What was the issue ?

nocturne hornet Sep 7, 2023, 12:02 PM

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[SOLVED] No audio on new installation

#[SOLVED] No audio on new installation