[arch-general] sound problem with chromium

[Pascal]

hi,

the problem seems to have disappeared after installation of pulseaudio-alsa
which appears to be essential to the proper functioning of Chromium.

when Chromium had "the hand" on the audio and was able to produce sound, I
could not hear the other participants talking with Jitsi while I could hear
their arrival (sound signal) and the sound test was ok (this was also the
case with Jitsi under Firefox).

to summarize, pulseaudio-alsa seems to have corrected the random sound
problem with Chromium and the second problem that appeared in the meantime
with Jitsi.
if this is the case, it could be added as a Chromium/Firefox dependency
(eg. pacman)...

regards, lacsaP.

Le lun. 9 mai 2022 à 14:56, Pascal <patatetom at gmail.com> a écrit :

> with or without the option, Chromium is still willing to play sound once
> in a while.
> what really bothers me is the randomness of the problem.
>
> some additional information :
> $ journalctl -b | grep -i _hda_
> May 09 08:39:09 archlive kernel: snd_hda_intel: probe of 0000:00:1f.3
> failed with error -2
> May 09 08:39:12 archlive kernel: sof-audio-pci-intel-cnl 0000:00:1f.3:
> using HDA machine driver skl_hda_dsp_generic now
> May 09 08:39:12 archlive kernel: snd_hda_codec_realtek ehdaudio0D0:
> autoconfig for ALC285: line_outs=2 (0x14/0x17/0x0/0x0/0x0) type:speaker
> May 09 08:39:12 archlive kernel: snd_hda_codec_realtek ehdaudio0D0:
>  speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
> May 09 08:39:12 archlive kernel: snd_hda_codec_realtek ehdaudio0D0:
>  hp_outs=1 (0x21/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
> May 09 08:39:12 archlive kernel: snd_hda_codec_realtek ehdaudio0D0:
>  mono: mono_out=0x0
> May 09 08:39:12 archlive kernel: snd_hda_codec_realtek ehdaudio0D0:
>  inputs:
> May 09 08:39:12 archlive kernel: snd_hda_codec_realtek ehdaudio0D0:
>  Mic=0x19
> May 09 08:39:13 archlive kernel: snd_hda_codec_realtek ehdaudio0D0: ASoC:
> sink widget AIF1TX overwritten
> May 09 08:39:13 archlive kernel: snd_hda_codec_realtek ehdaudio0D0: ASoC:
> source widget AIF1RX overwritten
> May 09 08:39:13 archlive kernel: skl_hda_dsp_generic skl_hda_dsp_generic:
> ASoC: sink widget hifi3 overwritten
> May 09 08:39:13 archlive kernel: skl_hda_dsp_generic skl_hda_dsp_generic:
> ASoC: sink widget hifi2 overwritten
> May 09 08:39:13 archlive kernel: skl_hda_dsp_generic skl_hda_dsp_generic:
> ASoC: sink widget hifi1 overwritten
> May 09 08:39:13 archlive kernel: skl_hda_dsp_generic skl_hda_dsp_generic:
> ASoC: source widget Codec Output Pin1 overwritten
> May 09 08:39:13 archlive kernel: skl_hda_dsp_generic skl_hda_dsp_generic:
> ASoC: sink widget Codec Input Pin1 overwritten
> May 09 08:39:13 archlive kernel: skl_hda_dsp_generic skl_hda_dsp_generic:
> ASoC: sink widget Analog Codec Playback overwritten
> May 09 08:39:13 archlive kernel: skl_hda_dsp_generic skl_hda_dsp_generic:
> ASoC: sink widget Digital Codec Playback overwritten
> May 09 08:39:13 archlive kernel: skl_hda_dsp_generic skl_hda_dsp_generic:
> ASoC: sink widget Alt Analog Codec Playback overwritten
> May 09 08:39:13 archlive kernel: skl_hda_dsp_generic skl_hda_dsp_generic:
> ASoC: source widget Analog Codec Capture overwritten
> May 09 08:39:13 archlive kernel: skl_hda_dsp_generic skl_hda_dsp_generic:
> ASoC: source widget Digital Codec Capture overwritten
> May 09 08:39:13 archlive kernel: skl_hda_dsp_generic skl_hda_dsp_generic:
> ASoC: source widget Alt Analog Codec Capture overwritten
> May 09 08:39:13 archlive kernel: input: sof-hda-dsp Mic as
> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/skl_hda_dsp_generic/sound/card0/input13
> May 09 08:39:13 archlive kernel: input: sof-hda-dsp Headphone as
> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/skl_hda_dsp_generic/sound/card0/input14
> May 09 08:39:13 archlive kernel: input: sof-hda-dsp HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as
> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/skl_hda_dsp_generic/sound/card0/input15
> May 09 08:39:13 archlive kernel: input: sof-hda-dsp HDMI/DP,pcm=4 as
> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/skl_hda_dsp_generic/sound/card0/input16
> May 09 08:39:13 archlive kernel: input: sof-hda-dsp HDMI/DP,pcm=5 as
> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/skl_hda_dsp_generic/sound/card0/input17
> May 09 14:30:25 archlive kernel: snd_hda_codec_realtek ehdaudio0D0: didn't
> find PCM for DAI Digital Codec DAI
> May 09 14:30:25 archlive kernel: snd_hda_codec_realtek ehdaudio0D0: ASoC:
> error at snd_soc_dai_startup on Digital Codec DAI: -22
>
> regards, lacsaP.
>
> Le lun. 9 mai 2022 à 14:32, Neven Sajko <nsajko at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>> Try loading snd_hda_intel without extra options. If this helps, you can
>> always use the ALSA_CARD environment variable for choosing the audio device.
>>
>