Sound’s go to mute suddenly…and comes to previous place and that problem keeps happening nonstop
It keeps doing that after running linux for about 1-2 hours and it keeps doing that even after I’m not playing
You posted system information in a previous post showing 2 sound servers running
Everything lags including mouse pointer when copying files in nautilus - #3 by rakin09
Audio: Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.24 running: yes
Pipewire might be trying to take control of audio devices from PulseAudio, but Pipewire cannot work unless all PulseAudio packages are replaced with Pipewire dependencies
I suggest you check if both sound servers are still active
inxi -Aa
and disable the pipewire socket and service
systemctl --user disable --now pipewire.socket
systemctl --user disable --now pipewire.service
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Audio:
Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio
vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
chip-ID: 8086:1c20 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.13.5-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.32 running: yes
I did what u told me to do but PipeWire turned on after restarting…
And ALSA is running also…Is it causing this problem too?
try using these simpler commands one at a time
systemctl --user stop pipewire.socket
systemctl --user disable pipewire.socket
systemctl --user stop pipewire.service
systemctl --user disable pipewire.service
systemctl --user mask pipewire.socket
ALSA is running also…Is it causing this problem too?
ALSA is not a sound server like the other 3. It is part of the kernel and provides the drivers for audio hardware. If ALSA was not running the 3 sound servers would not be able to use most audio hardware
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Well I did what you told me to do but nothing much changed…
The problem is still the same.
I suggest you check both servers for errors
systemctl --user status pulseaudio.* systemctl --user status pipewire.*If PulseAudio is still active, try this command to clear user databases of old settings
rm ~/.config/pulse/*.tdb ~/.config/pulse/cookieand reboot system for PulseAudio to create new files
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I’m sorry, but that did not really help…
Did the first command show pulseaudio.service was active (running) ?
please post the response to this command to show more information about PulseAudio
pacmd dump
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Please find the information you requested below:
### Configuration dump generated at Mon Aug 9 21:10:10 2021
load-module module-device-restore
load-module module-stream-restore
load-module module-card-restore
load-module module-augment-properties
load-module module-switch-on-port-available
load-module module-udev-detect
load-module module-alsa-card device_id="0" name="pci-0000_00_1b.0" card_name="alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1b.0" namereg_fail=false tsched=yes fixed_latency_range=no ignore_dB=no deferred_volume=yes use_ucm=yes avoid_resampling=no card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1"
load-module module-jackdbus-detect channels=2
load-module module-bluetooth-policy
load-module module-bluetooth-discover
load-module module-bluez5-discover
load-module module-dbus-protocol
load-module module-native-protocol-unix
load-module module-gsettings
load-module module-default-device-restore
load-module module-always-sink
load-module module-intended-roles
load-module module-suspend-on-idle
load-module module-console-kit
load-module module-systemd-login
load-module module-position-event-sounds
load-module module-role-cork
load-module module-filter-heuristics
load-module module-filter-apply
load-module module-cli-protocol-unix
set-sink-volume alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo 0x18675
set-sink-mute alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo no
suspend-sink alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo yes
set-source-volume alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor 0x10000
set-source-mute alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor no
suspend-source alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor yes
set-source-volume alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo 0xae67
set-source-mute alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo no
suspend-source alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo yes
set-card-profile alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1b.0 output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo
set-default-sink alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
set-default-source alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
That data all appears to be OK
Recent updates include new versions for both PulseAudio and Pipewire, so I suggest you update the system next
If the audio issue persists after rebooting system, please post response to this:
systemctl --user list-unit-files | grep -E 'pulseaudio|pipewire'
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