@foop Welcome to the forum! 
Sorry, my glass sphere is out of order this morning … 
Can you please provide some more information about your system and the problem you are experiencing?
Please post the output of inxi -Fxxxc0z
Did you check out the Arch wiki on following pages?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#Troubleshooting
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PulseAudio/Troubleshooting
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture/Troubleshooting
What information, specifically?
The problem is, for some reason, the PC is struggling to create sound cards (see dmesg output from previous screenshot)
No sound device is available for use because of this. Monitor audio, headphones… nothing. The only playback devices shown in aplay -l are loopback.
```
foop@foop ~> inxi -Fxxxc0z
System:
Kernel: 6.16.8-arch3-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.2.1
clocksource: tsc
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.4.5 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1 dm: SDDM
Distro: EndeavourOS base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: N/A v: N/A serial:
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME B550M-A WIFI II v: Rev X.0x
serial: part-nu: SKU uuid:
UEFI: American Megatrends v: 3607 date: 03/22/2024
CPU:
Info: 6-core model: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled
arch: Zen 3+ rev: 2 cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 3 MiB L3: 32 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1738 min/max: 561/4654 boost: enabled cores: 1: 1738
2: 1738 3: 1738 4: 1738 5: 1738 6: 1738 7: 1738 8: 1738 9: 1738 10: 1738
11: 1738 12: 1738 bogomips: 88797
Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a
ssse3 svm
Graphics:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 32 [Radeon RX 7700 XT /
7800 XT] vendor: Gigabyte driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-3 pcie:
speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-1 empty: DP-2, HDMI-A-1,
HDMI-A-2, Writeback-1 bus-ID: 0c:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:747e class-ID: 0300
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.18 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.8
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: amdgpu
unloaded: modesetting,radeon alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: radeonsi
gpu: amdgpu display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: DP-1 model: AOC Q24G2 serial: res: mode: 2560x1440
hz: 165 scale: 125% (1.25) to: 2048x1152 dpi: 124
size: 526x296mm (20.71x11.65") diag: 604mm (23.8") modes: max: 2560x1440
min: 720x400
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi
device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi
wayland: drv: radeonsi x11: drv: radeonsi
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 25.2.3-arch1.2
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT (radeonsi
navi32 LLVM 20.1.8 DRM 3.64 6.16.8-arch3-1) device-ID: 1002:747e
display-ID: :1.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.321 layers: 6 surfaces: N/A device: 0
type: discrete-gpu driver: amd device-ID: 1002:747e
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info
x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 31 HDMI/DP Audio driver: N/A
pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 0c:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab30
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: N/A pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 0e:00.4
chip-ID: 1022:1487 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: JMTek LLC. USB PnP Audio Device
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-3:2 chip-ID: 0c76:161e class-ID: 0300
API: ALSA v: k6.16.8-arch3-1 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.8 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8852BE PCIe 802.11ax Wireless Network vendor: AzureWave
driver: rtw89_8852be v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: e000
bus-ID: 08:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:b852 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlan0 state: up mac:
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASUSTeK RTL8111H driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 09:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp9s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac:
Bluetooth:
Device-1: IMC Networks Bluetooth Radio driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
rev: 1.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-5:3 chip-ID: 13d3:3571
class-ID: e001 serial:
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: bt-v: 5.2 lmp-v: 11
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.16 TiB used: 341.14 GiB (28.6%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: A-Data model: LEGEND 900 size: 953.87 GiB
speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: fw-rev: SN14436
temp: 46.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Silicon Power model: SPCC M.2 SSD size: 238.47 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: SSD serial: fw-rev: 18B2 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 936.83 GiB used: 341.12 GiB (36.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0
mapped: luks-63538550-d6d4-4550-997b-6c6e56d9e9a5
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 1022 MiB used: 26 MiB (2.5%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
file: /swapfile
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 44.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 36.0 C
mem: 33.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0
Info:
Memory: total: 32 GiB available: 31.23 GiB used: 2.99 GiB (9.6%)
Processes: 348 Power: uptime: 3m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform Init: systemd v: 258 default: graphical
Packages: 1380 pm: pacman pkgs: 1339 pm: flatpak pkgs: 41 Compilers:
gcc: 15.2.1 Shell: fish v: 4.0.8 running-in: kitty inxi: 3.3.39
```
What happens while using the live system? Do you have sound enabled?
Please insert such data highlighting the text with CTRL+E. That makes it much better readable. Thank you!
The output shows, that no driver is loaded for your built in sound devices.
Can you please share the output of following:
yay -Q | grep pulse
yay -Q | grep pipewire
yay -Q | grep alsa
yay -Q | grep jack