Hi all,
this is my first experience with EndeavourOS/Cinnamon, coming from Manjaro. Most things are working well, I am trying to get used to install packages with pacman without a GUI.
The only thing i am missing is: sound
Sound was working well during installation with the live USB stick.
I am not sure what diagnostic to do. Any help would be great.
Thanks in advance. Matthias
Welcome to the community @matthias 
It’s curious sound was working during install, but not now. My first thought is a different kernel (eg: LTS)?
Could you share some details please.
This will generate a link you can share, that’ll contain your hardware info:
inxi -Fxxc0z | eos-sendlog
This will generate a link to share, with your boot log:
journalctl -k -b -0 | eos-sendlog
Another observation: In sound settings (Klangeinstellungen), the only sound device is Schein-Ausgabe (~simulated output, fake output). The volume cannot be set more than 0.
I think thy broke sound again in a kernel update I had to use me External DAC to get sound this morning.
Thanks for sharing that.
System: Kernel: 6.18.34-1-lts arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 16.1.1 Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.6.8 tk: GTK v: 3.24.52 wm: Muffin dm: LightDM Distro: EndeavourOS base: Arch Linux
Are you able to confirm please, if it continues to be an issue when using the main kernel, and not LTS?
I doubt it’s related to this issue, but also just noting your BIOS could use an update. There are some security issues that have been addressed:
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/A520M-S2H-rev-1x/support#Support-Bios
The sound issue continues also with this kernel:
7.0.11-arch1-1
Sound is working now!
My only problem is: I don’t know why. I just was playing around. I installed some sound-related packages: Ardour, Pulse audio mixer, Audacity, Photofilmstrip. In between, pacman offered to update these packages: xdg-desktop-portal (1.20.4-1 → 1.22.0-1), gtkmm3 (3.24.10-2 → 3.24.11-1).
I removed all the newly installed packages, the sound still works.
By reading the installation history, I discovered that pipewire-pulse had been removed indirectly (not by me) during some of the actions mentioned.
After installing pipewire-pulse, there is no sound again!
Now, when trying to remove pipewire-pulse, there is an error
Entfernen von pipewire-pulse verletzt Abhängigkeit »pulse-native-provider«, benötigt von cinnamon-settings-daemon
which means something like:
removing pipewire-pulse violates dependency “pulse-native-provider” required by cinnamon-settings-daemon
I still feel very much as a newbie here. Still gessing what prevents my sound.
If it really pipewire-pulse was preventing my sound to work, it still does and I cannot get rid of it.
pipewire-pulse was silently removed indirectly when pacman updated xdg-desktop-portal, not by any of my installation attempts.
That means: now I am stuck. I consider reinstalling EndeavourOS.
What happens when you remove pulse-native-provider and then remove pipewire pulse?
I don’t have pulse-native-provider installed on my machine but I’m running Plasma.
[eosblu@machina ~]$ pacman -Q | grep wire
gst-plugin-pipewire 1:1.6.6-1
kpipewire 6.6.5-1
libpipewire 1:1.6.6-1
libwireplumber 0.5.14-1
pipewire 1:1.6.6-1
pipewire-alsa 1:1.6.6-1
pipewire-audio 1:1.6.6-1
pipewire-jack 1:1.6.6-1
pipewire-pulse 1:1.6.6-1
wireguard-tools 1.0.20260223-1
wireplumber 0.5.14-1
[eosblu@machina ~]$ pacman -Q | grep pulse
libpulse 17.0+r98+gb096704c0-1
pipewire-pulse 1:1.6.6-1
pulseaudio-qt 1.8.1-1
In the meanwhile, I have done a reinstallation. Still no sound.
pacman -Q | grep wire
gst-plugin-pipewire 1:1.6.6-1
libpipewire 1:1.6.6-1
libwireplumber 0.5.14-1
pipewire 1:1.6.6-1
pipewire-alsa 1:1.6.6-1
pipewire-audio 1:1.6.6-1
pipewire-jack 1:1.6.6-1
pipewire-pulse 1:1.6.6-1
wireless-regdb 2026.05.30-1
wireplumber 0.5.14-1
and
libpulse 17.0+r98+gb096704c0-1
pipewire-pulse 1:1.6.6-1
Strange: I don’t have pulse-native-provider at all.
Maybe the Wiki can solve your problem.
The last paragraph in the linked article helped: I installed pulseaudio and answered yes to remove pipewire-pulse.
Audio works now, thank you!
Wierd pipewire is the new audio “driver” and should replace the now Unmaintained pulsaudio.
I need to look into what my issue is.
If pulseaudio is unmaintained, then this is not really a solution.
Not long term no.
You could try installing again. I had trouble with sound when I first installed EOS. I ended up switching to the Linux kernel from the LTS kernel which solved my problem.
Some weeks later I checked again with the LTS kernel and sound was working with it also.
# Install PipeWire and related packages
sudo pacman -S pipewire pipewire-alsa pipewire-pulse pipewire-jack
# Enable and start the PipeWire PulseAudio service
systemctl --user enable pipewire-pulse.service
systemctl --user start pipewire-pulse.service
You can check the status with…
systemctl --user status pipewire
On my machine it shows…
systemctl --user status pipewire
â—Ź pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service; disabled>
Active: active (running) since Thu 2026-06-11 04:43:54 EDT; 4h 3>
Invocation: c8cd9741b63c403184b912326c36ccec
TriggeredBy: â—Ź pipewire.socket
Main PID: 1492 (pipewire)
Tasks: 3 (limit: 76981)
Memory: 11.9M (peak: 15.1M)
CPU: 19.666s
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.sl>
└─1492 /usr/bin/pipewire
I would like to try that. But I will be back with two weeks only after hiking in the alps.
Wow, that sounds like a great adventure! 