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Elmario

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Registered: 2023-08-21

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SOLVED:Audio adapter disapp. from pipewire after latest update 1:1.4.9

Hello!

Since the recent update, sound is not working anymore. In Pipewire's mixer the sound adapter (Some Intel / Realtek HDA thing, I never understood why audio chips always come in two part ) is not shown anymore.
I restarted Pipewire services, shutdown the notebook, reinstalled pipewire-pulse including all dependencies (which supposedly includes anything important from Pipewire) to no avail.

Just exactly the four adapters that I don't and can'T use are still there.

But the one I need (the notebook's internal Intel audio) is gone.
https://i.imgur.com/lLSJCYr.png

I can still see it in tools like HardInfo2:
https://i.imgur.com/BmgNn25.png

Can you help me, please?

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Last edited by Elmario (2026-01-03 23:45:51)

system72

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Re: SOLVED:Audio adapter disapp. from pipewire after latest update 1:1.4.9

do you have this installed?

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x8 … -firmware/

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Elmario

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Registered: 2023-08-21

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Re: SOLVED:Audio adapter disapp. from pipewire after latest update 1:1.4.9

Yes. Should I remove it?

Edit:
I thought it might have been config files changed by the Pipewire update, and so I copied the older config directories (pipewire and wireplumber) from a Timeshift backup to ~/.config and restartet all related services. But this did not help.

Last edited by Elmario (2026-01-03 21:38:31)

Elmario

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Re: SOLVED:Audio adapter disapp. from pipewire after latest update 1:1.4.9

The weird thing is:
While tools like hardinfo2 and aplay still show the audio adapter ( ALC285 Analog ), I can not find it using lscpi:

aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Controller [Wireless Controller], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: ICUSBAUDIO7D [ICUSBAUDIO7D], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [ROG PG278QR]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 3: Generic_1 [HD-Audio Generic], device 0: ALC285 Analog [ALC285 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h-19h PCIe Root Complex (rev 01)
00:00.2 IOMMU: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h-19h IOMMU
00:01.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h-19h PCIe Dummy Host Bridge (rev 01)
00:01.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h-19h PCIe GPP Bridge
00:02.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h-19h PCIe Dummy Host Bridge (rev 01)
00:02.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h-19h PCIe GPP Bridge
00:02.2 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h-19h PCIe GPP Bridge
00:02.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h-19h PCIe GPP Bridge
00:03.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h-19h PCIe Dummy Host Bridge (rev 01)
00:04.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h-19h PCIe Dummy Host Bridge (rev 01)
00:08.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h-19h PCIe Dummy Host Bridge (rev 01)
00:08.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h-19h Internal PCIe GPP Bridge (rev 10)
00:08.3 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h-19h Internal PCIe GPP Bridge (rev 10)
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller (rev 71)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge (rev 51)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt Data Fabric: Device 18h; Function 0
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt Data Fabric: Device 18h; Function 1
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt Data Fabric: Device 18h; Function 2
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt Data Fabric: Device 18h; Function 3
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt Data Fabric: Device 18h; Function 4
00:18.5 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt Data Fabric: Device 18h; Function 5
00:18.6 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt Data Fabric: Device 18h; Function 6
00:18.7 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt Data Fabric: Device 18h; Function 7
01:00.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 10 XL Upstream Port of PCI Express Switch (rev c0)
02:00.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 10 XL Downstream Port of PCI Express Switch
04:00.0 SD Host controller: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ777 SD/MMC Card Reader Controller (rev 01)
05:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX200 (rev 1a)
06:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller S4LV008[Pascal]
07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Rembrandt [Radeon 680M] (rev c7)
07:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Radeon High Definition Audio Controller
07:00.2 Encryption controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 19h PSP/CCP
07:00.3 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt USB4 XHCI controller #3
07:00.4 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt USB4 XHCI controller #4
07:00.5 Multimedia controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Audio Coprocessor (rev 60)
07:00.6 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Ryzen HD Audio Controller
08:00.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt USB4 XHCI controller #8
08:00.3 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt USB4 XHCI controller #5
08:00.4 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt USB4 XHCI controller #6

As a reminder: It's working when I boot Windows on the same notebook (which I haven done for years before, just for making clear that Windows is not the culprit here).

Last edited by Elmario (2026-01-03 22:26:12)

Elmario

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Registered: 2023-08-21

Posts: 102

Re: SOLVED:Audio adapter disapp. from pipewire after latest update 1:1.4.9

A session with Claude 'solved' the issue:
Actually the output was there all the time - after doing a lot of simple but very confusing checks, it became clear, that the formerly different named output (It was something like 'Generic HDA-Audio' or such, now is named Ryzen HA Audio.

No good idea of them changing this ..
But it's working again, and that's what counts!

Thank you!

Last edited by Elmario (2026-01-04 00:48:05)