Hi.
I’m new to Manjaro. I installed this two days ago, and have been fussing ever since. Everything seems good except the sound. The sound is going out the HDMI on the back of my nvidia card.
I’ve read a lot of posts. I’ve disabled pipewire, I’ve ensured pulse is running, I set up an /etc/pulse/asound.conf file. I’ve confirmed that all channels are unmuted in alsamixer. Nothing is working.
I installed pavucontrol, but it never seems to be able to connect to the pulse server (even though I see it running in the background). It is almost like something else has the sound monopolized… but with pipewire out of the way, I don’t know what that could be.
I have tried using aplay, the only hardware device the responds is 0:3, but no sound comes out – it just locks up, and I cannot kill it. The interesting thing is, when I do that, Plasma suddenly “sees” the hdmi sound card – but I cannot do anything with it.
I know it is not hardware related, because the sound was working under KDE Neon with problems.
Thanks for any help.
Some info about my system:
I’m running KDE plasma, on a Manjaro system that claims to be up to date.
Linux HTPC 5.13.11-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Aug 15 13:15:18 UTC 2021 x86_64 GNU/Linux
lspci ✔
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 30h-3fh) Processor Root Complex
00:00.2 IOMMU: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 30h-3fh) I/O Memory Management Unit
00:02.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 30h-3fh) Processor Root Port
00:02.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Kaveri P2P Bridge for GFX PCIe Port [1:0]
00:03.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 30h-3fh) Processor Root Port
00:03.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 30h-3fh) Processor Root Port
00:04.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 30h-3fh) Processor Root Port
00:10.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB XHCI Controller (rev 09)
00:10.1 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB XHCI Controller (rev 09)
00:11.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 40)
00:12.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB OHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:12.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB EHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:13.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB OHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:13.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB EHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller (rev 16)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge (rev 11)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH PCI Bridge (rev 40)
00:14.5 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB OHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 30h-3fh) Processor Function 0
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 30h-3fh) Processor Function 1
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 30h-3fh) Processor Function 2
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 30h-3fh) Processor Function 3
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 30h-3fh) Processor Function 4
00:18.5 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 30h-3fh) Processor Function 5
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti] (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GP107GL High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06)
aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 10: HDMI 4 [HDMI 4]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 11: HDMI 5 [HDMI 5]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
ps -ef |grep -i pipewire ✔
myuser 6029 2163 0 16:15 pts/3 00:00:00 grep -i pipewire
` ps -ef |grep -i pulse ✔
myuser 873 837 94 Aug19 ? 19:39:15 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no --log-target=jou
rnal
myuser 892 873 0 Aug19 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/pulse/gsettings-helper
myuser 6087 2163 0 16:25 pts/3 00:00:00 grep -i pulse`
pacman -Qs nvidia ✔
local/lib32-libvdpau 1.4-1
Nvidia VDPAU library
local/lib32-nvidia-utils 470.63.01-1
NVIDIA drivers utilities (32-bit)
local/libvdpau 1.4-1
Nvidia VDPAU library
local/linux513-nvidia 470.63.01-3 (linux513-extramodules)
NVIDIA drivers for linux.
local/mhwd-nvidia 470.63.01-1
MHWD module-ids for nvidia 470.63.01
local/mhwd-nvidia-390xx 390.144-1
MHWD module-ids for nvidia 390.144
local/nvidia-utils 470.63.01-1
NVIDIA drivers utilities
Happy to provide anything else that might be needed. Thanks again.