I just recently installed Endeavour OS (Atlantic Neo) on my laptop. I noticed that my audio didn’t work at all, and after maybe an hour and a half of browsing I installed rtkit, add my user to that group and started the service. After that didn’t work, I checked journalctl --user -u pipewire.service:
-- Boot 106de7405e094d9b99d504fdbf364714 -- Feb 17 12:22:53 The-Space-Endeavour systemd[547]: Started PipeWire Multimedia Service. Feb 17 12:22:53 The-Space-Endeavour pipewire[701]: mod.rt: RTKit error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown Feb 17 12:22:53 The-Space-Endeavour pipewire[701]: mod.rt: could not set nice-level to -11: No such file or directory Feb 17 12:22:53 The-Space-Endeavour pipewire[701]: mod.rt: RTKit error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown Feb 17 12:22:53 The-Space-Endeavour pipewire[701]: mod.rt: RTKit error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown Feb 17 12:22:53 The-Space-Endeavour pipewire[701]: mod.rt: RTKit error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown Feb 17 12:22:53 The-Space-Endeavour pipewire[701]: mod.rt: could not make thread 713 realtime using RTKit: No such file or directory
After a couple more minutes of working in the terminal I realized that pipewire.service was neither started nor enabled.
When I ran '$ sudo systemctl --user enable pipewire.service` it returned:
Failed to connect to bus: No medium found
When I ran $ sudo systemctl --user start pipewire.service it produced:
Failed to connect to bus: No medium found
While audio isn’t a necessity for me, I would prefer to have it working if I should need it.
If it means anything I’m using Endeavor OS Budgie Desktop. I have tried uninstalling pipewire-pulse, pipewire-alsa, and pipewire-jack, but I won’t let me remove them because it is a dependency of a dependency of a dependency for the entire desktop (something along those lines).
Anyone know a fix for this? Thank you.
Edit: Forgot to include the hardware info command results
You should use wither sudo systemctl for system-wide services, or systemctl --user for user-only services. PipeWire is a user service, so use only e.g.
systemctl --user status pipewire.service
systemctl --user start pipewire.service
I tried this and it shows that it started. Then when I referred back to my journalctl it keeps spitting out the same as before (see screenshot), and I still have no audio output.
Next thing would be to identify the packages that changed between it working and not working. Check /var/log/pacman.log or the output of paclog.
If it happened with a kernel update then it’s possibly a driver regression that will be fixed in the next kernel. You could also try different kernel packages (linux-lts, linux-zen) to see if that makes a difference.
(Also, forum tip, you can edit a post to append information rather than making multiple single-sentence posts)
It doesn’t seem like it worked, so I think I might just go without some audio output for the time being until there is a kernel update or something. I really like the distro and I enjoy using it so far, so if I need a video or anything I’ll use my phone or PC. Worse comes to worse I can do instructional videos with closed captions on. It seems like it might be this hardware though because the other distros I installed before this (Void, Artix, Archo) all seemed too have issues with this. Might just be my hardware with some proprietary crap or something but I don’t like touching the physical hardware if I can help it so it will probably just stay as is because I’d rather live with silence than no computer at all lol.
I do appreciate your time and help though. See you around bro.
(closing this because it seems like that it what is needed, I don’t know much about Forums and whether mods need to know or not sorry.)
