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averythenugget

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Registered: 2026-04-24

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Speaker Audio Not Working

So basically, for some reason whenever I try to play audio from my speakers it never works. I have no idea why. My headphones work completely fine but my speakers don't.

mackin_cheese

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Registered: 2025-01-07

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Re: Speaker Audio Not Working

Please read the stickied posts for the subforum before posting help questions. It'll help you and also help others in helping you

killertofus

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Registered: 2025-02-10

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Re: Speaker Audio Not Working

start here https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855 http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

pipewire or pulse?

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5hridhyan

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Registered: 2025-12-25

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Re: Speaker Audio Not Working

To check

pactl info

I guess pipewire, run

systemctl --user status pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber
wpctl status 
aplay -l 
aplay -L 
pactl info && pactl list sinks

and post the output in #Code tags: https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode
also `lspci | grep -i audio`
also does `speaker-test -c 2` produces audio?

pactl list short sinks

does it show RUNNING?

Edit:
sometimes you might be simply lacking https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x8 … -firmware/, check if you have it, if not try installing it

Edit2:
IF speaker test also doesn't produce sound, but Headphones/HDMI produces sound; also

pactl list short sinks

shows RUNNING but no sound reminds me my case earlier this month https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=312941

doesn't produce sound, but Headphones/HDMI produces sound;

also if that's the case can you once check if ALSA produces output?

Last edited by 5hridhyan (2026-04-24 06:24:28)