No output devices found at the start of the computer

General system Newbie
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Hello,
I’m using Gnome | EndeavourOS version 6.8.1 and after my last yay where I deleted the electron25 packages because it was around 40GB, I’m having issue with audio. It indicate me that the output used is HDMI/DP and in my settings, it just say that there is no sound output (while there is my microphone being detected and there). Here is also the result of my check commands:

[julien@julien-hpprobook440g6 ~]$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC236 Analog [ALC236 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
[julien@julien-hpprobook440g6 ~]$  inxi -A
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Point-LP High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  API: ALSA v: k6.6.22-1-lts status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.4 status: active

I didn’t really found any useful solution here yet so if anyone have any idea on how to fix this, thanks in advance

2

Is that from alsamixer?

3

I m having sound issues also. I have sound, but it intermittently cuts out. My monitor(tv)is pluigged into my nvidia graphics card. Running “aplay -l” in my case shows my gpu running sound

aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC3861 Analog [ALC3861 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [LG TV SSCR2]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

In your case I can not tell what is running your sound. Is that what you mean by saying there is no sound output?

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Welcome to the forum! @Zelote :enos:

There was a pipewire/wireplumber update which rolled out on Thursday that caused some issues, but it seems it is easily fixed by deleting a few unneeded files.

Please try this:

If the above doesn’t work, please let us know.

Also, you said “EndeavourOS version 6.8.1” meaning kernel 6.8.1, but your output from aplay -l shows that you logged into the 6.6.22-1-lts kernel.

I am just pointing it out here so that you are aware. Nothing more.

Hope you enjoy your time here! Cheers!

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It’s because I made some test but none of them work.

Here is the output on 6.8.1

[julien@julien-hpprobook440g6 ~]$ inxi -A
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Point-LP High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  API: ALSA v: k6.8.1-arch1-1 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.4 status: active
[julien@julien-hpprobook440g6 ~]$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC236 Analog [ALC236 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

I find out the thread you made me check before but the problem is I have no wireplumber files in my ~/.config/ so I have really no idea where it could come from.

Also, when I want too lower or higher the sound with my keyboard, it says that the output is HDMI/Display Port but I still don’t have any output devices

6

I would like to add that it works when I use bluetooth earphone and now that it found one output devices, I can use the basic output of my computer. This is really weird.

7

I know you got it working on bluetooth, but that’s a workaround that can get annoying very quickly.

Do you have timeshift and do you know how to roll back/revert an update?

8

Well, since I did that, I did some restart to of my computer and everything is working as usual and the problem didn’t appear back so I have no idea where it came from or how to fix it in a “better” way.

I also don’t know how to rollback or revert an update but that could be nice to know in case I need that in the futur.

9

Hmm. Okay, well great!

We do rollbacks/update reversion using timeshift. The GitHub does a good job of explaining it. It works across all major Linux distros.