#[SOLVED] Audio takes several seconds to connect to hardware: loses connection every minute or so.

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I am on a vanilla, manually installed Arch. I have pipewire installed but pacontrol info shows that Pulseaudio is the running server. I am using the default configuration files. Since installation, the first issue has been present: when I start an audio stream such as a youtube video or spotify, I miss the first 5 seconds of audio as a connection to the soundcard is established. The device doesn't seem to be kept active. Rather than figure out what was wrong I just ignored the issue. Now, a year later, without me changing anything related to Pulseaudio, suddenly the server loses connection to the audio device every minute or two even while a stream is active. It usually reconnects automatically after a minute or two.

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● pulseaudio.service - Sound Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.service; disabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Tue 2026-02-24 17:05:07 CST; 6h ago
 Invocation: 480527beb7994bae86ad76829693ca9d
TriggeredBy: ● pulseaudio.socket
   Main PID: 2357 (pulseaudio)
      Tasks: 10 (limit: 76843)
     Memory: 25.3M (peak: 25.3M)
        CPU: 870ms
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/[email protected]/session.slice/pulseaudio.service
             ├─2357 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no --log-target=journal
             └─2425 /usr/lib/pulse/gsettings-helper

Feb 24 17:05:06 zd systemd[1009]: Starting Sound Service...
Feb 24 17:05:07 zd systemd[1009]: Started Sound Service.

● pulseaudio.socket - Sound System
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.socket; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Tue 2026-02-24 17:04:12 CST; 6h ago
 Invocation: 9a0eaf294da24415997302137013aa5a
   Triggers: ● pulseaudio.service
     Listen: /run/user/1000/pulse/native (Stream)

Feb 24 17:04:12 zd systemd[1009]: Listening on Sound System.```
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Unit pipewire-pulse.service could not be found.
○ pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service; disabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: inactive (dead)
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire.socket```
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after a restart, the second issue, constant disconnection and reconnection, seems to not be happening. The only thing I can think of that is different is that Steam was running.

hidden orbit
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I've uninstalled Pulseaudio and it seems to have resolved both issues, at least in initial testing

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