I’ve had Endeavour OS installed for 3 months now, but for it was only today that the audio started having issues. When I play videos, sometimes audio just disappears (happened with both earphones and just the speakers), and I would wait a while for the audio to return or unplug and replug my earphones to get it to work again. Sometimes, it needs multiple replugs to get it to work. After it plays though, it’s smooth-sailing, and it won’t happen if I constantly have some audio playing. But as soon as I stop playing audio for a few seconds the problem reappears.
I saw some other posts about wireplumber being the issue, but I checked cat /var/log/pacman.log | grep wireplumber and the last update happened December 1, so I’m not sure why it only started today.
rene
December 12, 2022, 9:00am
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If you are / had you been using PulseAudio – Endeavour uses PipeWire by default – attempt no. 1 would’ve been commenting out
load-module module-suspend-on-idle
in /etc/pulse/default.pa. Not on Endeavour so I will need to leave it up to you / someone else to figure out if there’s a corresponding setting for PipeWire.
Attempt no. 2 would, assuming you’re using snd-hda-intel, be creating a file /etc/modprobe.d/snd-hda-intel.conf consisting of
options snd-hda-intel power_save=0 power_save_controller=N
and rebooting. Check with e.g. inxi -Ax if indeed the card in question uses snd-hda-intel.
Both that said; you seem to imply that sometimes sound cuts out literally in the middle of playing something so the above might also both be N/A. So FWIW…
Saw an article on arch wiki that is somewhat similar to the issue you’re experiencing, though I’m not sure if it’s relevant.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#Audio_cutting_out_when_multiple_streams_start_playing
For now, your best cause of action, in my opinion, is to check all the journal entries for pipewire
Consider running journalctl --user --unit pipewire
rene
December 12, 2022, 11:37am
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One more thing to came to mind specifically as a result of also just now being a thread about CPU frequency scaling…
If the snd-hda-intel parameters aren’t helping try if the issue’s still there after running
sudo cpupower frequency-set -g performance
Probably not the answer, but as a FWIW…
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@Steve120 Are the audio issues present in the LTS kernel as well? What about in a live environment?
This is what I got for today:
The previous logs were all similar to this up until around Dec. 1, which looked like this:
@rene yeah I think both attempts don’t apply here unfortunately:
╰─ inxi -Ax
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio vendor: Lenovo
driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl bus-ID: 0000:00:1f.3
Sound API: ALSA v: k5.15.82-1-lts running: yes
Sound Server-1: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: no
Sound Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.61 running: yes
I’m currently running on LTS as my day-to-day, have not tried a live USB yet
It happened in all audio-related contexts? Or just a specific application? Watching youtube videos? Web-browsing? Playing music files? Playing video files?
rene
December 12, 2022, 10:16pm
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Yah, not useful then. Could still try the CPU frequency thing.
It seems to be the case: YouTube on browser, YouTube on Discord, .mp3, .mp4 files so far all have not worked.
When did you last update your system? You can check your pacman logs at /var/log/pacman.log
If it’s a software issue, we need to identify the culprit (maybe a recently update package has caused this?). It makes no sense for this issue to occur out of the blue.
To rule out hardware issues, you can test it out in a live environment and see if the issue is there. Maybe try out different kernels? You are running LTS now; I don’t see the harm in testing things out with the stable kernel.
It seems I have last updated it last Dec. 11.
Just tried it on a live USB, and it was working fine there (only tested browser though since the installed media player couldn’t open)
Okay. So it’s a software issue. The next step is to figure out which recently updated package is causing this.
If this could help, this is what pacman.log has for the entire day of Dec. 11:
[2022-12-11T15:50:30-0500] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S -y -u --config /etc/pacman.conf --'
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You said the audio only starts to give problems when you stop playing audio for a while but not when the audio is playing continuously?
I’m beginning to suspect that this might have to do with Wireplumber’s “suspend on idle” setting.
Can you cd into /usr/share/wireplumber/main.lua.d/ and open a file called 50-alsa-config.lua? Scroll down to the bottom to the apply_properties section. You should see a bunch of commented out lines like this:
Uncomment this line:
--["session.suspend-timeout-seconds"] = 5,
And change the timeout-seconds to 0 to disable suspend. After that, reboot and see if the problem still occurs
Could it be related to that? => After update, pipewire needs to be restarted often
I had problems where my audio suddenly stopped working and Discord was the cause of this. Audio usually worked fine but when I had Discord running and didn’t play audio for a while all audio was broken.
I fixed it by setting ["api.alsa.headroom"] = 512 (Here is a guide on how/where to set this property => https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/Troubleshooting#underrununderflow-and-broken-pipe-errors )
rene
December 14, 2022, 9:53am
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