I am currently running a rather fresh install of the bspwm version of EOS. The audio was working just fine prior to today. However, it has stopped working all together for both speakers and headset. The only thing I did today was login to steam, install lutris, then open YouTube after which I noticed the sound wasn’t working. I then updated my system to see if that would help. Additionally, I dual-boot with Windows and the sound works over there.
In pavucontrol, I see Firefox under Playback and the meter is correctly bouncing to indicate volume and I believe it is set to the correct Output Device. I did not change any configurations in pavucontrol, I only observed it and everything seems correct.
I have also Googled and snooped around these forums but nothing has really solved this issue for me. Can anyone help me troubleshoot this?
BTW, there have been many cases of audio issues in the past couple of weeks in regard to what media session manager is being used. In some cases switching from wireplumber to pipewire-media-session have resolved the sound issue. Check which one you are using.
Last night, upon reading this , I tried switching from wireplumber to pipewire-media-session. It didn’t work, unfortunately. When I stopped tinkering, I guess I left pipewire-media-session installed.
If the Mode is enabled, it can cause problems for multiple users:
It can be disabled by using alsamixer.
See http://superuser.com/questions/431079/how-to-disable-auto-mute-mode for more.
To save your current settings as the default options, run alsactl store as root.
I really needed to use sound with my system so I quickly dumped all of my my dotfiles onto a thumb drive and re-installed. Sound worked until breaking after mass copying the dotfiles to the new installation. I re-installed yet again and began meticulously copying my dotfiles over one at a time to try to determine exactly which one was breaking my sound.
I purposely didn’t copy over .pulse-cookie because everything else was working/setup how I needed after copying over all of my dotfiles again (except that one).
Perhaps .pulse-cookie is the culprit in some sort of way? I don’t know but everything is back to working for now. Will update thread if it somehow breaks again.
So, after my last post, my sound broke relatively quickly afterward. I hopped over to Fedora in hopes it would work there. Similarly, it worked post-install then quickly stopped working again for whatever reason. It would seem that right after installation the sound works but it soon breaks afterwards no matter where I go. Side note, sound didn’t work at all in Ubuntu. On windows, sound works 100% of the time so this isn’t a hardware issue.
Can anyone please help me troubleshoot this? I would prefer to stay on EOS but I need sound.
On my latest EOS install, I installed LTS as well as Zen. No sound at all–currently on 5.15.43-1-lts
My gut feeling tells me that this “sof-hda-dsp” has something to do with my problems. In AlsaMixer, sof-hda-dsp is what my card is listed as with Realtek ALC294 as the chip.
The problem has to do with Windows putting the sound card into some kind of power-saving mode during reboot. Linux cannot wake the card from this state. Therefore, rather than rebooting from Windows into Linux, the user must shutdown the system before booting into Linux for sound to work.
