Pipewire, no HDMI audio using the Asus i5 11400, gpu 730, pulseaudio works fine with all outputs.Tested with Kde, XCFE and Wayland

Why doesn’t pipewire when installed not produce audio for HDMI using Asus i5 11400, 730 HDMI Audio? Before pipewire install, pulseaudio works fine with all outputs and Inputs.

If you could set up a test procedure for my hardware that would be great?
Heres my info

aplay -l

card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC897 Analog [ALC897 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC897 Digital [ALC897 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [Sceptre N43]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

works
speaker-test -Dhw:1,0 -c2
speaker-test -Dhw:1,1 -c2

Playback device is hw:1,1
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)
Buffer size range from 64 to 1048576
Period size range from 32 to 524288
Using max buffer size 1048576
Periods = 4
was set period_size = 262144
was set buffer_size = 1048576
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
^CTime per period = 9.061709
[vic@500gbSSD ~]$ speaker-test -Dhw:1,0 -c2

speaker-test 1.2.8

Playback device is hw:1,0
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)
Buffer size range from 64 to 1048576
Period size range from 32 to 524288
Using max buffer size 1048576
Periods = 4
was set period_size = 262144
was set buffer_size = 1048576
0 - Front Left
^C 1 - Front Right
Time per period = 1.785710

Not working
speaker-test -Dhw:1,3 -c2

[vic@500gbSSD ~]$ speaker-test -Dhw:1,3 -c2

speaker-test 1.2.8

Playback device is hw:1,3
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy

Why is device is hw:1,3 busy… I dont understand? Why no audio from this port… its listed as functional… I need an exact answer and test procedures… using Manjaro and Archlinux with kde. * Asus 560, I5-11400 with graphics, 730, 32gb ddr4" Windows 11 works great at 4k 60hz, I really want to get this working out of the box no issues…" THIS SAME CONFIGUration works fine with the Dell Optiplex 3050, I5-6500 530, 16gb ddr4, 4k @30hz, installed on 500gb ssd usb, just went over and plugged in drive usb 3 and reboot uefi to boot off ssd)

Thanks

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Please see:

man speaker-test describes this as a command-line speaker test tone generator for ALSA

If the command uses the -D (--device) option to connect direct to an ALSA hardware device hw: , the default sound server (PipeWire or PulseAudio) is not used

To play audio via default sound server, use speaker-test without the device option:

speaker-test -c2 -l1

Why is device is hw:1,3 busy… I dont understand?

from aplay -l response:

  • Subdevices: 1/1 for device 0 (hw:1,0) and device 1(hw:1,1) indicates they are available for direct ALSA connection
  • Subdevices: 0/1 for device 3 (hw:1,3) indicates it is not available for direct ALSA connection.

The most likely reason the device is busy and not available is the software sound server is using the device as default sink for audio playback. This command should confirm that device /dev/snd/pcmC1D3p is connected to PipeWire

fuser -fv /dev/snd/pcm*

If Pipewire server is stopped or the audio device is disconnected from PipeWire, the device will be shown as available in aplay -l and speaker-test for device hw:1,3 should work

Sounds right… Yes everything is working… except audio output to HDMI … Device is busy cause I had a mask on the pipewire after a post I was trying to follow but didnt make sense… so I unmasked pipewire and wireplumber… Back to the original problem… no audio coming from HDMI device The speaker test works fine on HDMI audio, left and right test…

Now I took the manjaro and archlinux ssds to 2 computers A dell I5-6500 and Asus AMI-A8-5500 and everything works as expected.
The Asus I5-11400 has the HDMI issue…

[vic@ssd500gbA ~]$ speaker-test -c2 -l1

speaker-test 1.2.8

Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)
Buffer size range from 64 to 1048576
Period size range from 32 to 524288
Using max buffer size 1048576
Periods = 4
was set period_size = 262144
was set buffer_size = 1048576
0 - Front Left
1 - Front Right
Time per period = 10.998858

[vic@ssd500gbA ~]$ sudo fuser /dev/snd/pcm*
[sudo] password for vic:
/dev/snd/pcmC0D3p: 990m
/dev/snd/pcmC1D0c: 990m
/dev/snd/pcmC1D0p: 990m
/dev/snd/pcmC2D0c: 990m
[vic@ssd500gbA ~]$