Hi, I have somehow caused an issue where my perfectly functioning audio playback has been borked.
The only thing I did that could be relevant to this was install pulseaudio-equalizer-ladspa, and after reboot my audio is not playing either through browsers, Rhythmbox or VLC player. Weirdly enough, it does play through Haruna video player.
After some reboots, if I open a browser and play a YouTube video, it will work, and pavucontrol will show the playback being run through the correct output device, but then if I click another video, the audio is no longer playing, and the video starts to first buffer and then stop entirely, while pavucontrol is still showing the correct playback device being used.
The only thing I can think of is that installing the above package somehow caused issues between Pulseaudio (which is what I’m running), Pipewire and something else related to the daemon?
For Pulseaudio packages, I have pulseaudio 17.0-3, pulseaudio-alsa 1:1.2.12-3, pulseaudio-bluetooth 17.0-3 and pulseaudio-qt 1.6.1-1 installed.
For Pipewire-related packages, I have pipewire 1:1.2.6-1, pipewire-alsa 1:1.2.6-1, pipewire-audio 1:1.2.6-1 and pipewire-jack 1:1.2.6-1.
Is this a conflict between the two alsa packages? Should I remove pipewire audio and/or pipewire-jack? Could the installation of the equaliser package have borked this?
Some outputs:
inxi -Fxxxrz:
Audio:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 31 HDMI/DP Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab30 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Rembrandt Radeon High
Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s
lanes: 16 bus-ID: 12:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1640 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h/19h HD Audio
vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s
lanes: 16 bus-ID: 12:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
Device-4: Logitech C920 PRO HD Webcam driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-2.3:9
chip-ID: 046d:08e5 class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
Device-5: SteelSeries ApS Arctis 7
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
lanes: 1 bus-ID: 7-1.2:3 chip-ID: 1038:12ad class-ID: 0300
API: ALSA v: k6.11.6-arch1-1 status: kernel-api
Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.2.6 status: active with: 1: wireplumber
status: active 2: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 3: pw-jack type: plugin
Server-3: PulseAudio v: 17.0 status: active with: pulseaudio-alsa
type: plugin
pactl list sinks short:
1 alsa_output.pci-0000_03_00.1.hdmi-stereo module-alsa-card.c s16le 2ch 44100Hz SUSPENDED
2 alsa_output.pci-0000_12_00.6.analog-stereo module-alsa-card.c s16le 2ch 44100Hz SUSPENDED
3 alsa_output.usb-SteelSeries_SteelSeries_Arctis_7-00.mono-chat module-alsa-card.c s16le 1ch 44100Hz SUSPENDED
4 alsa_output.usb-SteelSeries_SteelSeries_Arctis_7-00.stereo-game module-alsa-card.c s16le 2ch 44100Hz SUSPENDED
systemctl --user status pulseaudio:
● pulseaudio.service - Sound Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Tue 2024-11-05 22:15:58 +04; 14min ago
Invocation: 2761fbaab3f64742b7b291d6499ec3d8
TriggeredBy: ● pulseaudio.socket
Main PID: 1030 (pulseaudio)
Tasks: 12 (limit: 37299)
Memory: 24.7M (peak: 29M)
CPU: 200ms
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pulseaudio.service
├─1030 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no --log-target=journal
└─1056 /usr/lib/pulse/gsettings-helper
ნოე 05 22:15:58 SSD-DTP-LNX systemd[1018]: Starting Sound Service...
ნოე 05 22:15:58 SSD-DTP-LNX systemd[1018]: Started Sound Service.
ნოე 05 22:16:02 SSD-DTP-LNX pulseaudio[1030]: Failed to open connection to session manager: None of the authentication >
ნოე 05 22:16:02 SSD-DTP-LNX pulseaudio[1030]: Failed to load module "module-x11-xsmp" (argument: "display=:1 xauthority>
