I'm a bit stumped on this, with my laptop - if I have the HDMI cable connected when I boot, the system recognizes the HDMI audio out no problem and I can get audio/video on the second monitor/TV. If I look in my audio mixer, I see the GF108 High Definition Audio Controller Digital Stereo (HDMI 4) enabled and the Port: HDMI / DisplayPort 4 (Plugged in).
If the HDMI cable is not plugged in when the system boots, and I plug it in after the fact, it shows up as Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI 4) Output (unplugged) (unavailable)
Seems like I have to be missing something so it doesn't need the HDMI plugged in at boot to recognize the audio.
Thanks in advance!
Are you using pulseaudio or pipewire?
Pulseaudio, seems both package are installed though. Using pavucontrol to manage the volume in XFCE.
Hello,
I had similar issues with pulseaudio.
It's been two years since I removed all pulse packages except libpulse and libcanberra.
I use alsa and the nice and very practical qastools mixer on different pc :
https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,4318.msg27848.html#msg27848
Note: I don't play games and don't use wine or steam.
Whenever I have a similiar problem like yours, I just kill pulseaudio and either restart it manually or let pavucontrol restart it for me and the problem is fixed.
Thanks! The kill it and restart it did the trick, bit of annoyance to have to that, but bash aliases to the rescue! I seem to recall when I put my system together five years ago, that Pulseaudio was the only way Firefox would be able to play audio so that is what I went with. Thanks again everyone, can always count on the forums here for a solution.
I don't have pulseaudio on my pc and yet there is sound in Firefox and in all my multimedia applications.