raijar
October 21, 2021, 5:33pm
#1
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20211016KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.86.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.14.11-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-8559U CPU @ 2.70GHz
Memory: 7.6 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Iris® Plus Graphics 655
The computer sound is muted. I can’t change that.
When I try to change the audio, then pavucontol cannot find any devices. The program gets stuck. See picture.
Neither pavucontrol works with pavucontrol or pavucontrol-qt.
**Tumbleweed:~ #** zypper se pavucontrol
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
S | Name | Summary | Type
---+---------------------+-----------------------------------------+--------
| pavucontrol | PulseAudio Volume Control | package
| pavucontrol-lang | Translations for package pavucontrol | package
i+ | pavucontrol-qt | Qt port of pavucontrol | package
i | pavucontrol-qt-lang | Translations for package pavucontrol-qt | package
**Tumbleweed:~ #**
Information for package pulseaudio:
-----------------------------------
Repository : openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
Name : pulseaudio
Version : 15.0-4.1
Arch : x86_64
Vendor : openSUSE
Installed Size : 3.8 MiB
Installed : Yes
Status : up-to-date
Source package : pulseaudio-15.0-4.1.src
Summary : A Networked Sound Server
Description :
pulseaudio is a networked sound server for Linux, other Unix like
operating systems and Microsoft Windows. It is intended to be an
improved drop-in replacement for the Enlightened Sound Daemon (ESOUND).
“Muodostetaan PulseAudio yhteyttä. Ole hyvä, ja odota…” mean roughly in English “Establishing a PulseAudio connection. Please wait …”
URL: https://paste.opensuse.org/67883639
Svyatko
October 21, 2021, 6:40pm
#2
Have you installed sof firmware?
raijar
October 21, 2021, 7:27pm
#3
The audio still worked a few days ago, but I can’t say exactly when. I haven’t specifically installed anything, but used a zypper dup command.
Below are the programs that can be found.
S | Name | Summary | Type
---+--------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------
| FirmwareUpdateKit | Tool for assisting with DOS-based firmware updates | package
| adaptec-firmware | Firmware files for Adaptec SAS Cards (AIC94xx Series) | package
i+ | alsa-firmware | Firmware Data Files for ALSA | package
| arm-trusted-firmware | Arm Trusted Firmware-A | package
| arm-trusted-firmware-tools | Tools for ARM Trusted Firmware-A | package
| atmel-firmware | Firmware for Atmel at76c50x Wireless Network Chips | package
| b43legacy-firmware | Legacy Firmware for Broadcom bcm43xx series based PCI/PCMCIA cards | package
| b43legacy-firmware | Legacy Firmware for Broadcom bcm43xx series based PCI/PCMCIA cards | srcpackage
| bananapir2-firmware | Binary bootloader and firmware files for Banana Pi R2 | package
| bcm20702a1-firmware | Firmware for BCM20702A1 based devices | package
| bcm43xx-firmware | Firmware for the Broadcom/Cypress BCM43xx chipset family | package
| bladeRF-fpga-firmware | FPGA firmware for SDR radio receiver | package
| bladeRF-fx3-firmware | Microcontroller firmware for SDR radio receiver | package
| bluez-firmware | Bluetooth(TM) Firmware | package
| crystalhd-firmware | Firmware for the Broadcom Crystal HD video decoder | package
| facetimehd-firmware | FacetimeHD firmware download and extraction tool | package
| gnome-firmware | Install firmware on devices | package
| gnome-firmware-lang | Translations for package gnome-firmware | package
| hackrf-firmware | Firmware for the hackRF board | package
| ipw-firmware | Firmware for Intel PRO/Wireless WLAN Cards | package
i+ | iscan-firmware | Firmware files for Epson scanners | package
| isight-firmware-tools | Tools to manipulate firmware for Built-in iSight | package
| ivtv-firmware | Driver firmware for iCompression or Conexant video capture cards | package
| kernel-firmware | Linux kernel firmware files | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-all | Compatibility metapackage for kernel firmware files | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-amdgpu | Kernel firmware files for AMDGPU graphics driver | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-ath10k | Kernel firmware files for Atheros QCA988x WiFi drivers | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-ath11k | Kernel firmware files for Atheros Qualcomm WiFi drivers | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-atheros | Kernel firmware files for Atheros wireless drivers | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-bluetooth | Kernel firmware files for various Bluetooth drivers | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-bnx2 | Kernel firmware files for Broadcom network drivers | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-brcm | Kernel firmware files for Broadcom wireless drivers | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-chelsio | Kernel firmware files for Chelsio network drivers | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-dpaa2 | Kernel firmware files for NXP Management Complex bus driver | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-i915 | Kernel firmware files for Intel i915 graphics driver | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-intel | Kernel firmware files for Intel-platform device drivers | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-iwlwifi | Kernel firmware files for Intel wireless drivers | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-liquidio | Kernel firmware files for Cavium LiquidIO driver | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-marvell | Kernel firmware files for Marvell network drivers | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-media | Kernel firmware files for various Video4Linux drivers | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-mediatek | Kernel firmware files for Mediatek network drivers | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-mellanox | Kernel firmware files for Mellanox Spectrum switch driver | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-mwifiex | Kernel firmware files for Marvell WiFi fullmac drivers | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-network | Kernel firmware files for various network drivers | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-nfp | Kernel firmware files for Netronome Flow Processor driver | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-nvidia | Kernel firmware files for Nvidia Tegra and graphics drivers | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-platform | Kernel firmware files for various platform drivers | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-prestera | Kernel firmware files for Marvell Prestera ASIC driver | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-qcom | Kernel firmware files for Qualcomm device drivers | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-qlogic | Kernel firmware files for QLogic network drivers | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-radeon | Kernel firmware files for Radeon graphics driver | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-realtek | Kernel firmware files for Realtek wireless drivers | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-serial | Kernel firmware files for various serial drivers | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-sound | Kernel firmware files for various sound drivers | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-ti | Kernel firmware files for Texas Instruments wireless drivers | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-ueagle | Kernel firmware files for Eagle IV USB ADSL modem driver | package
i+ | kernel-firmware-usb-network | Kernel firmware files for various USB WiFi / Ethernet drivers | package
| mpt-firmware | Configuration files for autoloading mptctl at boot time | package
| pullin-bcm43xx-firmware | download broadcom firmware files | package
| raspberrypi-eeprom-firmware | Raspberry Pi 4 EEPROM firmware blobs | package
| raspberrypi-firmware | Binary bootloader and firmware files for Raspberry Pi | package
| raspberrypi-firmware-config | Configuration for the Raspberry Pi firmware loader | package
| raspberrypi-firmware-dt | Device trees for the Raspberry Pi firmware loader | package
| raspberrypi-firmware-eeprom | Raspberry Pi 4 EEPROM firmware upgrade package | package
| raspberrypi-firmware-extra | Extra bootloaders for Raspberry Pi | package
| raspberrypi-firmware-extra-pi4 | Extra bootloaders for Raspberry Pi | package
| rtl8761b-firmware | Firmware for RTL8761B-based BT 5.0 dongles | package
| rtl8761b-firmware | Firmware for RTL8761B-based BT 5.0 dongles | srcpackage
| sigrok-firmware-fx2lafw | Firmware for Logic Analyzers based on the Cypress EZ-USB FX2(LP) Chip | package
i+ | sof-firmware | Firmware Data Files for SOF Drivers | package
| technisat-usb2-firmware | Firmware for Technisat SkyStar USB HD | package
| uhd-firmware | Firmware images for uhd | package
| uranium-firmware-lulzbot | 3D printer firmware | package
| usrp-firmware | Firmware files for the URSP1 SDR | package
| zd1211-firmware | Firmware for ZD1211 USB WLAN sticks | package
**Tumbleweed:~ #**
Svyatko
October 21, 2021, 8:29pm
#4
TW uses Pipewire by default. You need pipewire-pulseaudio (and other packages) to use Pulseaudio with Pipewire.
raijar
October 21, 2021, 8:58pm
#5
Thank you very much. Audio works again
Hm, after today’s update I have the same issue. I have pipewire things (including pipewire-pulseaudio) installed. Any ideas?
RaijaR, did you do anything to get it to work?
EDIT: okay, I got sound back by installing the pulseaudio package, which in turn removed the pipewire-pulseaudio package. So, things are fine right now. But, is this something that is likely to give me problems in the future?
I had pipewire updates installed today and my audio stopped working. Had to install pulseaduio and the sound works.