5.1 Surround Sound not working on Fresh install

Desktop Environments Gnome
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Funny you should mention that, i actually did & had the same issue. :grin:

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You could add EnOS repo to your Arch install :blush:
There have been a couple of threads on the forum as well about how to convert Arch to Endeavour and vice versa.

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I believe this is the thread you’re referring to? Adding link for future reference :+1:t3:

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Yes, that would be one. If my memory serves me right, there have been a couple of others as well. I didn’t search for them though :blush:

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It won’t add pipewire correct?

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By adding EnOS* repo you will be able to install EnOS’ tools on your system.
So if you go ahead and install pipewire again I am not sure you will have the same issue as described above or not. Honestly I couldn’t tell.

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@Christopher67
Maybe this helps https://archlinux.org/packages/?name=pipewire-docs

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@Christopher67
There is also a pipewire-alsa package so i don’t know where that fits in? It seems to me that everything is sort of intertwined so to speak. This is my current audio output on anew install of kde.

Audio:     Device-1: AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590] vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel
           v: kernel bus-ID: 2d:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:aaf0 class-ID: 0403
           Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel
           v: kernel bus-ID: 2f:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487 class-ID: 0403
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.6-arch2-1 running: yes
           Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
           Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
           Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.40 running: yes

In the alsa settings you can actually specify the 5.1 audio according to the Arch wiki. I don’t know some apps may choose independently audio output also? :man_shrugging:

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