I3wm first install no audio

Hello,

new to the forum.

I’ve just installed Manjaro i3wm, but audio is not working. I did a search on this wiki and on the web, tryed different solutions, but nothing is working.

Could someone help me?

Some info’s:

uname -a
5.15.78-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Nov 10 20:50:09 UTC 2022 x86_64 GNU/Linux

cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [sofhdadsp      ]: sof-hda-dsp - sof-hda-dsp
                      IntelCorporation-JasperLakeClientPlatform-Defaultstring-JSLMRD

Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Jasper Lake HD Audio driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-icl
    alternate: snd_hda_intel,snd_sof_pci_intel_icl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
    chip-ID: 8086:4dc8 class-ID: 0401
  Sound API: ALSA v: k5.15.78-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-1: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: no
  Sound Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.59 running: yes

 amixer --card=0
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',1
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',2
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'PGA2.0 2 Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 32
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 32 [100%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: Playback 32 [100%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'PGA3.0 3 Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 32
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 32 [100%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: Playback 32 [100%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'PGA4.0 4 Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 32
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 32 [100%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: Playback 32 [100%] [0.00dB]

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Hello,

Do you have pipewire-pulse installed? That way you can use the already installed pavucontrol to change audio volume. Also, make sure in alsamixer there is no channel muted or Auto Mute enabled.

Hi @bogdancovaciu , thanks for your reply.

I did try with pipewire-pulse, but it didn’t worked. On alsamixer is all unmuted. I’m trying different solutions, but nothing works. I’m on a dual boot PC, and on Windows audio works fine.

Make sure you disable Fast Boot in Windows and that mixed hibernate thing, it can prevent sometimes that devices work properly on Linux.

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Did it, still not working.

if i3wm does not have audio from ALSA, installing additional software sound servers PulseAudio or PipeWire is not likely to resolve issues in ALSA

ALSA controls in amixer is only showing 3 digital audio IEC958 outputs, but no analog outputs for Speakers, Headphones etc. Also no controls for audio capture from internal or external microphones

I suggest you install latest kernel v6.0, that may have been patched to support the audio codec for this system

sudo mhwd-kernel -i linux60

If audio is still not working as expected with later kernel, please post more information about ALSA

sudo alsa-info.sh --upload
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This worked! Now I got my audio, thanks!

There is still a little silly problem, a short static “taaac” sound emitted -sometimes- when I do a search using the dmenu-websearch script, opening a page on the web -e.g. YouTube- and other similar operations.

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