Audio output not working in fresh install Endeavour OS

Audio doesn’t seem to work even when it’s showing it’s playing in pavucontrol

More details:
Using pipewire-pulse
Fresh installation of Endeavour OS

output of inxi -Fzxxxa
System:
Kernel: 6.9.10-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.1.1
clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm
parameters: initrd=\faa021867ae74144993d9901122f9a0d\6.9.10-arch1-1\initrd
nvme_load=YES nowatchdog rw
root=UUID=b58aa939-1ba8-4d79-86f3-d0c8671f42d2
resume=UUID=6c549ddf-886a-4b04-a0ff-bdf365c1e885 rw
root=UUID=b58aa939-1ba8-4d79-86f3-d0c8671f42d2
resume=UUID=6c549ddf-886a-4b04-a0ff-bdf365c1e885
systemd.machine_id=faa021867ae74144993d9901122f9a0d
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.1.3 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.4.0
wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: EndeavourOS base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Convertible System: HP product: HP Pavilion x360 Convertible 14-dw1xxx
v: N/A serial: Chassis: type: 31
serial:
Mobo: HP model: 87F5 v: 39.32 serial:
part-nu: 2R2H6PA#ACJ uuid: UEFI: AMI v: F.46
date: 09/12/2022
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 28.5 Wh (79.6%) condition: 35.8/35.8 Wh (100.0%)
volts: 12.8 min: 11.6 model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion
serial: status: charging cycles: 854
Device-1: hid-0018:04F3:2B5F.0001-battery model: ELAN2513:00 04F3:2B5F
serial: N/A charge: N/A status: N/A
CPU:
Info: model: 11th Gen Intel Core i5-1135G7 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Tiger Lake gen: core 11 level: v4 note: check built: 2020
process: Intel 10nm family: 6 model-id: 0x8C (140) stepping: 1
microcode: 0xB6
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 320 KiB desc: d-4x48 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 5 MiB desc: 4x1.2 MiB L3: 8 MiB
desc: 1x8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 877 high: 1471 min/max: 400/4200 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 1264 2: 400 3: 400
4: 1020 5: 537 6: 1471 7: 1337 8: 587 bogomips: 38720
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling mitigation: Microcode
Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: retbleed status: Not affected
Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS; IBPB:
conditional; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: SW sequence; BHI: SW loop, KVM: SW
loop
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: i915 v: kernel alternate: xe arch: Gen-12.1 process: Intel 10nm
built: 2020-21 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, HDMI-A-1,
HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 0000:00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9a49 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) HP Wide Vision HD Camera
driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0
bus-ID: 3-6:2 chip-ID: 05c8:03df class-ID: 0e02
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.13 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.1
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,intel,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1920x1080 size: N/A modes: N/A
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris platforms: device: 0 drv: iris
device: 1 drv: swrast surfaceless: drv: iris wayland: drv: iris x11:
drv: iris inactive: gbm
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.1.4-arch1.2
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel Xe Graphics (TGL GT2)
device-ID: 8086:9a49 memory: 3.62 GiB unified: yes display-ID: :1.0
API: Vulkan Message: No Vulkan data available.
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl alternate: snd_hda_intel, snd_soc_avs,
snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 0000:00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a0c8
class-ID: 0401
API: ALSA v: k6.9.10-arch1-1 status: kernel-api
tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.1 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 0000:00:14.3
chip-ID: 8086:a0f0 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlan0 state: up mac:
IF-ID-1: wwan0 state: down mac: N/A
Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 3-10:4 chip-ID: 8087:0026
class-ID: e001
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
status: discoverable: no pairing: no
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller driver: vmd
v: 0.6 port: N/A bus-ID: 0000:00:0e.0 chip-ID: 8086:9a0b rev: class-ID: 0104
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 18.78 GiB (3.9%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Toshiba
model: KBG40ZNV512G KIOXIA size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial:
fw-rev: HP00AE00 temp: 58.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 467.13 GiB size: 458.73 GiB (98.20%)
used: 18.69 GiB (4.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: yes
compressor: zstd max-pool: 20%
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
Sensors:
Src: /sys System Temperatures: cpu: 56.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 8 GiB note: est. available: 7.41 GiB used: 3.61 GiB (48.7%)
Processes: 252 Power: uptime: 16m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: s2idle
avail: deep wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
suspend, test_resume image: 2.95 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,
power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 256 default: graphical
tool: systemctl
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1026 libs: 242 tools: yay Compilers:
gcc: 14.1.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.26 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.35

PS: I previously installed endeavour os on my hardware in the past and it was working back then( I don’t remember if I performed any tweaks after the installation)

Quick update: I can get output of some beep sounds when I increase or decrease the volume
But when I play a video or audio I am not getting any output

check with pavucontrol to see if you have proper settings for your inputs and outputs.

So there are some options within pavucontrol. when I changed few settings I got the audio to work with my laptop speakers. But with headphones plugged in I still can’t receive any output. Also do I have to change the settings /tweak everytime I open my laptop?

Edit: Magically, it started working again. I hope this stays!
Thanks for pointing out about pavucontrol settings!

I saw something similar on a fresh installation: I always (after each boot) have to mute and then unmute to have working audio.

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