No Sound with Soundblaster Z or Intel PCH

Hello,

i just installed Manjaro i3 and I have no sound.
I have a Soundblaster Z sound card, but I don’t have sound, which is not a problem tbh, because I can use my integrated soundcard, but this Soundcard does not have sound either.
What do I do.
I have found this patch for the Kernel for soundblaster Z but i would rather use the integrated sound from my CPU:
patch for the Kernel for soundblaster Z

System is up to date;

[man@tower ~]$ inxi -Ax
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 9 Series Family HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
           Device-2: NVIDIA GM107 High Definition Audio [GeForce 940MX] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
           bus-ID: 05:00.1
           Device-3: Creative Labs Sound Core3D [Sound Blaster Recon3D / Z-Series] driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
           bus-ID: 06:00.0
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.13.19-2-MANJARO running: yes
           Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
           Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no

Not sure how you installed i3, but seems you forgot to start pulseaudio

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PulseAudio#Running

I used the i3-community edition. They also have a script, that is supposed to install pulse and make it run…
It worked on my other two machines. It doesnt seem to work on this machine.
I think I messed up since it is dualboot…

How can you explain this?

#systemctl enable pulseaudio.socket                                                                                         
Failed to enable unit: Unit file pulseaudio.socket does not exist.
#systemctl enable pulseaudio.service                                                                                      
Failed to enable unit: Unit file pulseaudio.service does not exist.

I suggest you check if package pulseaudio-alsa is installed to configure PulseAudio as the default sound server in ALSA. The package is only an optional dependency and can be overlooked when i3 users are installing PulseAudio

If the package is installed and PulseAudio is not shown as running:yes after rebooting system,
please post more information about the PulseAudio systemd units that should start PulseAudio automatically

systemctl status --user -full --no-pager pulseaudio.{socket,service}

Hi,

I do have the same issue and getting this output:

systemctl status --user --full --no-pager pulseaudio.{socket,service} 
● pulseaudio.socket - Sound System
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.socket; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Tue 2021-10-26 23:10:46 CEST; 14min ago
   Triggers: ● pulseaudio.service
     Listen: /run/user/1000/pulse/native (Stream)
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/pulseaudio.socket

Okt 26 23:10:46 coyote systemd[1386]: Listening on Sound System.

● pulseaudio.service - Sound Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Tue 2021-10-26 23:10:48 CEST; 14min ago
TriggeredBy: ● pulseaudio.socket
   Main PID: 1532 (pulseaudio)
      Tasks: 8 (limit: 19123)
     Memory: 7.3M
        CPU: 188ms
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pulseaudio.service
             ├─1532 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no --log-target=journal
             └─1861 /usr/lib/pulse/gsettings-helper

Okt 26 23:10:47 coyote systemd[1386]: Starting Sound Service...
Okt 26 23:10:48 coyote pulseaudio[1532]: stat('/etc/pulse/default.pa.d'): Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Okt 26 23:10:48 coyote systemd[1386]: Started Sound Service.
Okt 26 23:11:13 coyote pulseaudio[1532]: GetManagedObjects() failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

Thank you for your reply.
Here are my information.
I think my problem is the same as ditsches.
We have no defualt config

I also dont have a bluetooth module on my pc, but bluez. installed

but removed it from Pulse with this

Okt 27 22:39:01 tower systemd[861]: Starting Sound Service...
Okt 27 22:39:02 tower pulseaudio[972]: stat('/etc/pulse/default.pa.d'): No such file or directory
Okt 27 22:39:02 tower systemd[861]: Started Sound Service.
Okt 27 22:39:02 tower pulseaudio[972]: GetManagedObjects() failed: org.freedesktop.systemd1.NoSuchUnit: Unit dbus-org.bluez.service not found.

[man@tower ~]$ systemctl status --user --full --no-pager pulseaudio.service
● pulseaudio.service - Sound Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Wed 2021-10-27 22:39:02 CEST; 10min ago
TriggeredBy: ● pulseaudio.socket
   Main PID: 972 (pulseaudio)
      Tasks: 9 (limit: 38400)
     Memory: 11.6M
        CPU: 218ms
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pulseaudio.service
             ├─ 972 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no --log-target=journal
             └─1090 /usr/lib/pulse/gsettings-helper

Okt 27 22:39:01 tower systemd[861]: Starting Sound Service...
Okt 27 22:39:02 tower pulseaudio[972]: stat('/etc/pulse/default.pa.d'): No such file or directory
Okt 27 22:39:02 tower systemd[861]: Started Sound Service.
Okt 27 22:39:02 tower pulseaudio[972]: GetManagedObjects() failed: org.freedesktop.systemd1.NoSuchUnit: Unit dbus-org.bluez.service not found.
[man@tower ~]$ systemctl status --user --full --no-pager pulseaudio.socket
● pulseaudio.socket - Sound System
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.socket; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Wed 2021-10-27 22:38:57 CEST; 10min ago
   Triggers: ● pulseaudio.service
     Listen: /run/user/1000/pulse/native (Stream)
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/pulseaudio.socket

Okt 27 22:38:57 tower systemd[861]: Listening on Sound System.

Try installing manjaro-pipewire. It’ll replace all of your pulseaudio stuff with pipewire. See if that fixes anything.

I will try that.

I tried it, but there is still no sound.

But it can see the sound level moving, also for the mic. But actually no sound.

I deleted that version of my manjaro, so I guess we will never find out…
I will try again in a week.

So I found the Solution:
While I would have to patch the Kernel for Soundblaster Z, I used the wrong Jacks for my Headphones. The integrated Soundcrad was working fine all along.

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