No sound output devices listed after upgrade from 21.10 to 22.04

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Problem: No sound after upgrade from ubuntu 21.10 to 22.04 (using development release) both built in speakers and hdmi output.

Some background: running on ubuntu 21.04, I noticed that my sound was not so great so I did some research for sound and I finally managed to get better sound using pipewire with easyeffects. My guess is that I have to either remove this setup or adjust it for ubuntu 22.04 but I cant find the config settings anymore which I changed earlier.

Some info regarding my setup:

➜  ~ pactl info | grep '^Server Name'                
Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 0.3.48)
➜  ~ inxi -SMA

System:
  Host: BEWELIN001L Kernel: 5.15.0-25-generic x86_64 bits: 64
    Desktop: GNOME 42.0 Distro: Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Notebook product: PC5x_7xHP_HR_HS v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Notebook model: PC5x_7xHP_HR_HS serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: INSYDE v: 1.07.08 date: 09/07/2021
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-H HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  Device-2: NVIDIA driver: snd_hda_intel
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-25-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes

Sound settings just shows "dummy output" in the output device dropdown

Any ideas how to get this fixed?

to clarify: did you upgrade-install to 22.04, or did you fresh-install 22.04 ? — rob grune, Apr 22 '22 at 06:41
I upgraded using command: sudo do-release-upgrade -d
I have now tried: sudo apt-get remove pipewire after which my whole system went out and doesnt boot anymore. So Im not downloading the iso on a flash drive to try to repair my system or do a fresh install. — ThdK, Apr 22 '22 at 06:58
"...Im not downloading..." I suggest you download the ISO and fresh-install from it. I know many purists think an upgrade-install is preferable: but in my history, such upgrades create conflicts, and these can take weeks to resolve. A fresh-install is usually no more than 30 minutes, and avoids huge frustrations and wasted time. — rob grune, Apr 22 '22 at 07:32
@robgrune oops thats a typo. It should be "I am now downloading". I am by far not a purist, I just want it to work :D 5 minutes left for the download to finish. — ThdK, Apr 22 '22 at 07:43
I have the same problem. Sound worked perfectly on 21.10 but not on 22.04 — uniomni, Jun 10 '22 at 00:01
Like you I tried sudo apt-get remove pipewire and it uninstalls gnome. Following up with sudo apt-install gnome and it looks like it's reinstalling pulseaudio and pipewire. It's a big fat install. This may be my last post on this install. — n8., Mar 09 '23 at 16:43
@ThdK I also did a fresh install of 22.04 and it worked for a while, but now I get "dummy output" again. — Leonardo Castro, Mar 28 '23 at 22:56
I had the same issue after upgrading. What helped me is a complete shutdown. Simply rebooting doesn't work for some reason. I got the tip from this comment on Reddit. — wolfmanFP, Apr 24 '22 at 00:12
indeed, rebooting was not working to find my audio devices. A reel shutdown worked! — mmerle, Apr 30 '22 at 15:50

Adam · Accepted Answer · 2022-04-24T02:13:59.573

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I had the same issue after upgrading from 21.10.

I was able to fix this by running:

sudo touch /usr/share/pipewire/media-session.d/with-pulseaudio
systemctl --user restart pipewire-session-manager

For some reason pipewire-media-session was no longer picking up /etc/pipewire/media-session.d/with-pulseaudio

Source: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/p/pipewire-media-session/pipewire-media-session_0.4.1-2ubuntu1/changelog

edited Apr 24 '22 at 02:13

answered Apr 24 '22 at 01:17

Adam

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This also worked for me when upgrading from 21.10 – nanotek Apr 30 '22 at 17:11
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Not working for me. How did you debug this? – Ayus Mohanty May 03 '22 at 09:57
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Did not work for me. – uniomni Jun 10 '22 at 00:01
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Same solution worked in Debian Testing (bookworm) too – Lucio Crusca Jun 11 '22 at 09:50
Worked on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (5.11.0-41-generic) – jqualls Jun 24 '22 at 02:19
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works for me (on Debian GNU/Linux bookworm/sid running on kernel 5.19.0.2), thank you very much – ahooee Oct 02 '22 at 16:26
Debian bookworm too. Works! – daniel_hck Oct 12 '22 at 23:09
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Work for me too! I upgraded my OS from ubuntu 22.04 to 22.10 (beta) on Oct 16 2022 and encountered the same problem, and this works for me perfectly. – intlsy Oct 16 '22 at 13:15
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Worked for me! I upgraded from Ubuntu 22.04 to 22.10 (release) on Oct 21 2022 and had no sound, and this fixed it. – Sildeag Oct 22 '22 at 20:00
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Worked on Ubuntu 22.10 – Andreas J Oct 23 '22 at 15:31
worked upgrading from 22.04 to 22.10 – georg Feb 04 '23 at 17:23
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didn't work on 22.04.2 – Shihab Shahriar Khan Mar 21 '23 at 06:03
Thank you for your answer, it helped, with installing pulseaudio (it wasn't there). Honestly, I don't know why they do this, and what is wrong with them. – Alexander Mashin Apr 19 '23 at 17:40
The first time it worked for me, but when sound disappeared second time it didn't. Helped sudo alsa force-reload – DromiX Jul 14 '23 at 06:37
Had to do this after installing pipewire on Ubuntu 22.04 for it to see my audio devices. – Matthieu Mar 23 '24 at 00:37

score 12 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 24 '22 at 00:38

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I was having the same issue in Ubuntu 20.04. I tried to restart but it didn't help. Finally, I got the solution here.

Just restart pulseaudio service it will start working again.

Kill the running instance:

pulseaudio -k

Start pulseaudio again as a daemon:

pulseaudio -D

Please note that it fixed my Dummy Output problem on Ubuntu 20.04. A try is always worth giving.

answered Apr 24 '22 at 00:38

Vishwa Mittar

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I got the same problem and when I tried pulseaudio -D I got this error: E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed. – uniomni Jun 09 '22 at 23:59
worse, in my case, pulseaudio -k made my wired headset disappear from the list of output audio devices. Now the sound comes out of my HDMI monitor! – Pierre D Jan 26 '23 at 22:54
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Oh! That worked for me. Actually I only had to do the pulseaudio -k and it auto-restarted within a split second and everything works like a charm. – Alexis Wilke Oct 08 '23 at 20:44

Afuye Olawale · Answer 3 · 2022-08-13T10:30:40.603

OPTION 1

Open the terminal.

Type alsamixer and press the Enter key.
You will see the some output in your terminal.
Use the left and right arrow keys to select a volume control. and use up and down arrow keys to increase and decrease volume levels for each control.
Note: the currently selected item is shown in red. If mixer control is muted, “MM” appears below the volume bar. You can unmute control by pressing the m key. This changes “MM” to “OO.”
To exit alsamixer, press the Esc key.

OPTION 2

Run the following on the terminal and restart your system

$ alsaloop
$ sudo alsa force-reload

reboot your computer, and test your sound again to see if it is working.

OPTION 3

If none of the above solutions work for you, try reinstalling ALSA and PulseAudio that must fix the problem for you. Open your terminal, and enter the following commands: sudo apt-get remove --purge alsa-base

sudo apt-get remove --purge pulseaudio
sudo apt-get install alsa-base
sudo apt-get install pulseaudio

Option #1 worked, thanks!
(Just upgraded to 22.04, none of the other suggestions with higher vote counts worked for me) — Diederik, Sep 06 '22 at 06:22

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 15 '22 at 15:35

after couple days of struggling this reddit answer worked for me

as the answer suggest remove pipewire config files then reinstall pipewire, pipewire-pulse, and pipewire-media-session

Remove all the configuration files in /etc/pipewire (sudo mv /etc/pipewire /tmp)

Reinstall pipewire, pipewire-pulse, and pipewire-media-session (sudo pacman -S pipewire pipewire-pulse pipewire-media-session)

Enable and start the relevant services (systemctl --user enable pipewire pipewire-pulse pipewire-media-session) and (systemctl --user restart pipewire pipewire-pulse pipewire-media-session). After that, my devices appeared as usual and I was back in business.

confirm, worked for me on kubuntu 22.04. Appreciate! – Vladyslav Usenko May 28 '23 at 15:23 — Vladyslav Usenko, May 28 '23 at 15:23
confirm, this fixed my Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS problem – rurban Oct 02 '23 at 13:19 — rurban, Oct 02 '23 at 13:19

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 17 '22 at 14:43

I tried so many things after the upgrade to 22.04 and nothing seemed to work, and what I noticed (in my case), is that the kernel was not using the snd_hda_intel driver and therefor couldn't see/load the soundcard while lspci was still showing the soundcard.

I tried several of the options found and what did work for me what eventually the last option found on this page:

https://itsfoss.com/fix-sound-ubuntu-1304-quick-tip/

which was actually saying to add the following to the alsa-base.conf (/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf) and reboot:

options snd-hda-intel dmic_detect=0

after the reboot I finally had audio again!

This worked to get speakers back for me - but no microphone detected. — Mike, Nov 18 '22 at 14:44

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Apr 10 '23 at 13:56

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Restarting Pipewire was no help to me, but I needed to install some missing components of it, as detailed here: Problem with sound in Ubuntu 22.10

answered Apr 10 '23 at 13:56

Liam Proven

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No sound output devices listed after upgrade from 21.10 to 22.04

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