No sound on new xfce install

That dmesg is from kernel 5.15.60-1 so just to be sure: uname -a now tells you you’re on 6.0.8-1?

There’s in any case nothing of interest in there regarding audio – except then that it seems all’s in fact fine. As such I will again need to ask if e.g. pactl list cards shows the “HDA Intel” card. And/or whether or not you see the Pulseaudio plugin on your systray (the speaker icon) and if the card’s shown if you click that.

I’ve seen others suggest to try and have just one of Pulseaudio and Pipewire running. You have both – but I also have and this should be fine.

yes uname -r outputs:

6.0.8-1-MANJARO

and yes this command

pactl list cards | grep intel

outputs

alsa.driver_name = “snd_hda_intel”

As far as the system tray- I see the speaker icon, but I don’t see anything about an intel hda card when I click it.

Cant promise you this is going anywhere but lets then check one level down; can you post the output of aplay -l?

Sure:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC233 Analog [ALC233 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 10: HDMI 4 [HDMI 4]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

More “all’s fine – nothing to see here” output…

Does speaker-test -D hw:0 -c 2 -t sine -l 1 produce sound? (a sine first on one, then the other channel).

If not; does alsamixer -c 0 show all volumes not zero and no channels muted, i.e., all with a “OO” in green under the sliders as in the attached example?

alsamixer

nope. no sound from the first command.

the alsamixer does look a bit weird to me.

Still not seeing any issue and fairly specifically not seeing any issue that would keep Pulseaudio from providing you with a fully functional Pulseaudio plugin complete with e.g. volume controls when clicked in the systray – which you appear to say you did not have.

Please confirm: no controls visible from clicking the speaker icon in the systray? No possibility to from there go to the “audio mixer”?

If not (and only if not):

$ systemctl --user stop pulseaudio.socket
$ systemctl --user stop pulseaudio.service
$ pulseaudio -vv 2>&1 | tee ~/pulseaudio.log
<Ctrl-C>
$ systemctl --user start pulseaudio.service
$ systemctl --user start pulseaudio.socket

and again then please upload the file “pulseaudio.log” in your home directory for us to look at.

It’s however starting to look very misty…

no, the volume controls are in the tray, i said i just don’t see anything abou hda intel sound card there.

Can you post a screenshot of the “PulseAudio Volume Control” window, “Output devices” tab? I.e., as per

sure

Okay, well, unfortunate, but it seems I need to give up: I have absolutely no idea why you don’t have sound; all we checked seems to be saying all is hunky-dory.

Pardon; no idea.

okay, I understand.

wow this is so weird.

Maybe it’s something to do with msi manufacturer not wanting to play nice. IDK I’m grasping at straws.

I’ll just have to reinstall a different OS.

Thanks a bunch for working with me

Not overly fond of defeat, so… grasping at very, very thin straws indeed, but please also see No sound at all MSI Laptop - #11 by YIMINGMA

I.e., try it without the charger? :face_with_thermometer:

You are running Pulseaudio and Pipewire at the same time.

Maybe it helps of you focus on one:

pamac install manjaro-pipewire

I ran the command, but got this message at the end.

Checking inter-conflicts…
Error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
Error: Failed to prepare transaction:
conflicting dependencies:

  • manjaro-pulse and manjaro-pipewire are in conflict

should I uninstall pulse first?

This is a new. They conflict (they are supposed to conflict) but usually when installing one, it should automatically remove the other one.

How is it possible that you have both installed?

You should update your system first before continuing.

Okay I ran sudo pacman -Syu, rebooted , then ran,

pamac install manjaro-pipewire

with all default settings and it finished successfully, but I still have no sound.

Is it now running?

systemctl --user status pipewire
systemctl --user status wireplumber

And did you check this solution: No sound at all MSI Laptop - #11 by YIMINGMA

yes I did check the msi laptop solution last night. Didn’t work for me.

And the pipewire service seems to be running, but not the wireplumber one.