[Solved] Headphones not working

[jb1277976_]

Hello,

Trying to get headphones working. Audio through speakers and mic are working Using Pro Profile from pulseaudio and alsa

Here is some information

1. dmesg - https://termbin.com/k7tg

2. pa-info - https://termbin.com/8kjx

3. emerge-info - https://bpa.st/PIZA

Any help is appreciated

~ Joe

[flexibeast]

Thanks for sharing the output of those commands.

The output from pa-info:

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> pidof pulseaudio
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> pulseaudio --version
/usr/bin/pa-info: line 57: pulseaudio: command not found
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says that Pulse isn't actually running - `pidof` should have shown the PID of the relevant process - which would suggest that the audio you're getting is purely due to ALSA.

How are you starting (or trying to start) PulseAudio? Can you confirm that the `media-sound/pulseaudio` and `media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon` packages are installed? (`pa-info` is provided by `media-libs/libpulse`). And, given that you have `elogind` in your USE, i presume you're using OpenRC rather than systemd?

[jb1277976_]

Thanks for sharing the output of those commands.

The output from pa-info:

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> pidof pulseaudio
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> pulseaudio --version
/usr/bin/pa-info: line 57: pulseaudio: command not found
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says that Pulse isn't actually running - `pidof` should have shown the PID of the relevant process - which would suggest that the audio you're getting is purely due to ALSA.

How are you starting (or trying to start) PulseAudio? Can you confirm that the `media-sound/pulseaudio` and `media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon` packages are installed? (`pa-info` is provided by `media-libs/libpulse`). And, given that you have `elogind` in your USE, i presume you're using OpenRC rather than systemd?

Yes I'm using OpenRc

I remember from the install putting pulsesaudio and alsa in make.conf also I installed pavucontrol don't know if that installed pulsesaudio. I will check when I'm at my laptop.

Also pipewire is installed and I think that where I got the profile from so I can get sound. I remember deinstalling pulseaudio-daemon

Thanks again

[flexibeast]

Okay, well, a few things:

* If you're wanting to use PulseAudio as your sound server, you'll need the `pulseaudio-daemon` package installed. This will get pulled in when installing the `pulseaudio` meta-package. `pavucontrol` doesn't have a dependency on `pulseaudio` (only on `libpulse`), so the `pulseaudio` package won't have been automatically pulled in when you installed `pavucontrol`.

* Be careful with having PipeWire stuff and PulseAudio stuff installed at the same time; in certain contexts, problems can arise due to them fighting over which one is providing a sound server, particularly if something else is automatically starting (or trying to start) them. i would suggest that, if you no longer want/need PipeWire, you should remove the `pipewire` package before installing the `pulseaudio-daemon` package.

* i no longer use Pulse as my sound server, and instead use PipeWire, but based on the wiki page for PulseAudio, and given that you're running XFCE, you should install `xfce-extra/xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin` (if it's not already installed), in addition to `pulseaudio-daemon`, for XFCE to (hopefully) autostart Pulse

[garrison]

Please do not run pa-info as root, that would not have access to sound server. To include more alsa info please install alsa-utils package.

The issue with pulseaudio was that neither default alsa card profile nor current alsa-ucm-conf provide support for speakers of that Google Dragonair chromebook model.

Pipewire sound server pro audio profile provides access to bare hardware devices, which allowed using 'hw:0,5' for speakers. Please test headphones with 'speaker-test -t wav -c 2 -D hw:0,1'

[flexibeast]

Please do not run pa-info as root, that would not have access to sound server.

No indeed, but i seem to be missing where in the `pa-info` output it shows that it's been run as root; for my own future reference, could you point me to it, please?

[jb1277976_]

Okay, well, a few things:

* If you're wanting to use PulseAudio as your sound server, you'll need the `pulseaudio-daemon` package installed. This will get pulled in when installing the `pulseaudio` meta-package. `pavucontrol` doesn't have a dependency on `pulseaudio` (only on `libpulse`), so the `pulseaudio` package won't have been automatically pulled in when you installed `pavucontrol`.

* Be careful with having PipeWire stuff and PulseAudio stuff installed at the same time; in certain contexts, problems can arise due to them fighting over which one is providing a sound server, particularly if something else is automatically starting (or trying to start) them. i would suggest that, if you no longer want/need PipeWire, you should remove the `pipewire` package before installing the `pulseaudio-daemon` package.

* i no longer use Pulse as my sound server, and instead use PipeWire, but based on the wiki page for PulseAudio, and given that you're running XFCE, you should install `xfce-extra/xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin` (if it's not already installed), in addition to `pulseaudio-daemon`, for XFCE to (hopefully) autostart Pulse

Thanks for the reply

What do you recommend I do when I sit down at my laptop and start troubleshooting? Like first steps?

pa-info non root - https://termbin.com/22hz

[jb1277976_]

Please do not run pa-info as root, that would not have access to sound server. To include more alsa info please install alsa-utils package.

The issue with pulseaudio was that neither default alsa card profile nor current alsa-ucm-conf provide support for speakers of that Google Dragonair chromebook model.

Pipewire sound server pro audio profile provides access to bare hardware devices, which allowed using 'hw:0,5' for speakers. Please test headphones with 'speaker-test -t wav -c 2 -D hw:0,1'

I'm at my laptop right now.

I'm installing pulseauiod-daemon and removing pipewire will reboot then go from there and include alsa-ucm-conf

I've been reading all over Gentoo forums, reddit Linux forums and communities and they talk about pipewire is probably the best replacement for pulseaudio. all i know is when I had pipewire everything just worked expect headphones. i can probably use a usb dongle for that or just keep researching.

Thanks all for the help but I've removed pulseaudio from my system

Thanks

~ Joe B

[garrison]

Hard to say without alsa-utils installed (which brings alsa-info.sh used by pa-info) but you may try to play to 'Port1' which is hw:0,0
Or maybe try speaker test again, 'speaker-test -t wav -c 2 -D hw:0,0' that is probably either line out or headphones port.