Sound Problem after fresh base Arch Install (SOLVED)

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Question, I have installed a base Arch Linux Install added network manager, awesome WM, LightDM, Nitrogen, and Terminator. Everything seems to work okay however I have no sound. Installed Alsa-Utils and followed some instructions on the forum with no luck. I have googled, watched YouTube, and searched the forums here. As @brickwizard suggested previusly I am running a Dell Latitude E7250, 256GB SSD, 4GB RAM.

Anyone have any ideas, thanks I hope everyone is having a nice weekend.




Alan
 


Hi Alan
as you know I am not much up on Arch, if you have inxi installed please can we have ther report of inxi -A

thanks
 
Hi Alan
as you know I am not much up on Arch, if you have inxi installed please can we have ther report of inxi -A

thanks
@brickwizard I am unable to run that command and I am unable to install it with pacman -S. I am googling to see if perhaps it is available another way or Arch has an equivalent already installed.
 
I am unable to install it with pacman -S.
should work.. did you try it as sudo

On Arch Linux and derivatives:

sudo pacman -S inxi
 
I get "error: target not found inxi"
thats a bugger.... as you are assembling it yourself I will give it one guess.. did you install the drivers for the sound card ?
lets try... terminal cat /proc/asound/cards
 
you could also try installing the " Alsa-firmware package
 
thats a bugger.... as you are assembling it yourself I will give it one guess.. did you install the drivers for the sound card ?
lets try... terminal cat /proc/asound/cards
@brickwizard I was able to install it with YaY an AuR helper. So when I run inxi -A I get the below:

Audio:
Device-1: Intel Broadwell-U Audio driver: sbd_hda_intel
Device-2: Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.10-arch-1 running: yes
 
one quirk i found with Arch is that if you don't install base-devel at this stage :

Code:
# pacstrap     /mnt base linux linux-firmware  base-devel      vim nano grub efibootmgr

then you will find sudo doesn't work ; i found that when attempting to edit sudoers

ans what about Desktop ?

i used this to confirm graphics :

# lspci -v | grep -A1 -e VGA -e 3D

the basics options are :

Code:
if Intel:    sudo pacman -S xf86-video-intel mesa
if amd:    sudo pacman -S xf86-video-amdgpu mesa
if nvidia                        sudo pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils


my notes fro Arch install : https://linux.org/threads/manual-install-vanilla-arch.36358/
 
For sound i've got :

pulseaudio 15.0-1
pulseaudio-alsa 1:1.2.6-1
pulseaudio-bluetooth 15.0-1
pulseaudio-equalizer 15.0-1
alsa-utils 1.2.6-1

don't quote me but you may find these are pulled in as deps by eg Gnome Desktop , xfce4
 
if you can run :

Code:
sudo pacman -Qe

you will get list of explicitly installed pkgs
 
if you can run :

Code:
sudo pacman -Qe

you will get list of explicitly installed pkgs
[alan@Linux-Box ~]$ sudo pacman -Qe
alsa-firmware 1.2.4-2
alsa-utils 1.2.6-1
autoconf 2.71-1
automake 1.16.5-1
awesome 4.3-3
base 2-2
bison 3.8.2-1
fakeroot 1.26-1
firefox 95.0.1-1
flex 2.6.4-3
gcc 11.1.0-3
git 2.34.1-1
grub 2:2.06-2
inxi 3.3.11.1-1
lightdm 1:1.30.0-4
lightdm-gtk-greeter 1:2.0.8-1
lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings 1.2.2-7
linux 5.15.10.arch1-1
linux-firmware 20211027.1d00989-1
m4 1.4.19-1
make 4.3-3
neofetch 7.1.0-2
networkmanager 1.32.12-2
nitrogen 1.6.1-4
patch 2.7.6-8
pkgconf 1.8.0-1
sudo 1.9.8.p2-3
terminator 2.1.1-3
texinfo 6.8-2
vim 8.2.3582-3
xf86-video-vesa 2.5.0-2
xorg-bdftopcf 1.1-2
xorg-docs 1.7.1-3
xorg-font-util 1.3.2-2
xorg-fonts-100dpi 1.0.3-7
xorg-fonts-75dpi 1.0.3-7
xorg-fonts-encodings 1.0.5-2
xorg-iceauth 1.0.8-2
xorg-mkfontscale 1.2.1-2
xorg-server 21.1.2-1
xorg-server-common 21.1.2-1
xorg-server-devel 21.1.2-1
xorg-server-xephyr 21.1.2-1
xorg-server-xnest 21.1.2-1
xorg-server-xvfb 21.1.2-1
xorg-sessreg 1.1.2-2
xorg-setxkbmap 1.3.2-2
xorg-smproxy 1.0.6-3
xorg-x11perf 1.6.1-2
xorg-xauth 1.1.1-1
xorg-xbacklight 1.2.3-2
xorg-xcmsdb 1.0.5-3
xorg-xcursorgen 1.0.7-2
xorg-xdpyinfo 1.3.2-4
xorg-xdriinfo 1.0.6-2
xorg-xev 1.2.4-1
xorg-xgamma 1.0.6-3
xorg-xhost 1.0.8-2
xorg-xinit 1.4.1-3
xorg-xinput 1.6.3-2
xorg-xkbcomp 1.4.5-1
xorg-xkbevd 1.1.4-3
xorg-xkbutils 1.0.4-4
xorg-xkill 1.0.5-2
xorg-xlsatoms 1.1.3-2
xorg-xlsclients 1.1.4-2
xorg-xmodmap 1.0.10-2
xorg-xpr 1.0.5-2
xorg-xprop 1.2.5-1
xorg-xrandr 1.5.1-2
xorg-xrdb 1.2.1-1
xorg-xrefresh 1.0.6-2
xorg-xset 1.2.4-2
xorg-xsetroot 1.1.2-2
xorg-xvinfo 1.1.4-2
xorg-xwayland 21.1.4-1
xorg-xwd 1.0.8-1
xorg-xwininfo 1.1.5-2
xorg-xwud 1.0.5-2
yay 11.0.2-1
 
@brickwizard I was able to install it with YaY an AuR helper. So when I run inxi -A I get the below:

Audio:
Device-1: Intel Broadwell-U Audio driver: sbd_hda_intel
Device-2: Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.10-arch-1 running: yes
Is that a vanilla Arch install cause i thought yay was dead

ok try and install :

Code:
pulseaudio 15.0-1
pulseaudio-alsa 1:1.2.6-1
 
out of interest what do you get for command :

Code:
systemctl status lightdm
//and 
$ cat /etc/*-release
 
Yes vanillia, and I guess it is working it installed inxi and ran okay.
ok what about Desktop ?

mines intel so i went :

Code:
# pacman -S xf86-video-intel mesa 
# pacman -S xorg
#pacman -S cinnamon gnome-terminal kitty lightdm lightdm-greeter
# systemctl enable lightdm
# systemctl enable NetworkManager
 
out of interest what do you get for command :

Code:
systemctl status lightdm
//and
$ cat /etc/*-release
[alan@Linux-Box ~]$ systemctl status lightdm eg
Unit eg.service could not be found.
● lightdm.service - Light Display Manager
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service; enabled; vendor p>
Active: active (running) since Sun 2021-12-19 18:59:27 UTC; 53min ago
Docs: man:lightdm(1)
Main PID: 404 (lightdm)
Tasks: 14 (limit: 9369)
Memory: 71.0M
CPU: 43.071s
CGroup: /system.slice/lightdm.service
├─404 /usr/bin/lightdm
└─410 /usr/lib/Xorg :0 -seat seat0 -auth /run/lightdm/root/:0 -nol>

Dec 19 18:59:27 Linux-Box systemd[1]: Stopped Light Display Manager.
Dec 19 18:59:27 Linux-Box systemd[1]: Starting Light Display Manager...
Dec 19 18:59:27 Linux-Box systemd[1]: Started Light Display Manager.
Dec 19 18:59:27 Linux-Box lightdm[404]: Error getting user list from org.freede>
Dec 19 18:59:28 Linux-Box lightdm[423]: Error getting user list from org.freede>
Dec 19 18:59:28 Linux-Box lightdm[423]: pam_unix(lightdm-greeter:session): sess>
Dec 19 18:59:29 Linux-Box lightdm[463]: pam_systemd_home(lightdm:auth): systemd>
Dec 19 18:59:39 Linux-Box lightdm[463]: Error getting user list from org.freede>
Dec 19 18:59:39 Linux-Box lightdm[463]: pam_unix(lightdm:session): session open>
Dec 19 18:59:39 Linux-Box lightdm[463]: pam_env(lightdm:session): deprecated re>

[alan@Linux-Box ~]$
 
ok what about Desktop ?

mines intel so i went :

Code:
# pacman -S xf86-video-intel mesa
# pacman -S xorg
#pacman -S cinnamon gnome-terminal kitty lightdm lightdm-greeter
# systemctl enable lightdm
# systemctl enable NetworkManager
just using Awesome WM
 
just using Awesome WM
well i installed budgie , gnome , xfce4 and cinnamon and just chose from session at start up which to use. Could try and see if it fixes sound have you tried installing the two mentioned at #14 once i played with them I wittled it down to Cinnamon but some software is linked to Desktop so my terminal shell is alacritty
 

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