Media Player & Firefox Freeze Until Volume Adjusted

[firephynix]

Been having the same problem as:

Problems with sound on garuda

Hey I have big problems with sound on garuda since I installed it. The sound sometimes almost randomly doesnt work, firedragon also doesnt work correctly when that happens, when playing a video on youtube it loads for some time and then the whole browser freezes. Sound tests work but everything else doesnt. I tried stuff from the arch wiki and also stuff from forums but I couldnt resolve it. Would be nice if someone could help me on here garuda-inxi: System: Kernel: 5.19.13-zen…

for about a month or so. The problem is intermittent, but firefox and my media players will occasionally freeze, or not play (e.g., youtube, pandora), until I adjust my volume from the keyboard. Then everything is fine until the next song/video loads, but everything freezes again until I adjust the volume. Super annoying, and would love to find a solution. This is the only post I found on the internet that explains my exact same problem. Is this a Garuda or Arch issue? Doesn’t happen in Pop_OS! or Windows. Thanks.

╰─λ garuda-inxi
System:
Kernel: 5.19.13-zen1-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
root=UUID=7d3ab3be-1628-47df-a5c1-2e9ad2cb95d9 rw rootflags=subvol=@
quiet
cryptdevice=UUID=7754f81f-1325-436b-a1ac-6d7f64ef6e6c:luks-7754f81f-1325-436b-a1ac-6d7f64ef6e6c
root=/dev/mapper/luks-7754f81f-1325-436b-a1ac-6d7f64ef6e6c quiet splash
rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0
resume=/dev/mapper/luks-665606bd-b7ed-4721-b6b3-8a96bfed8007 loglevel=3
ibt=off
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.25.5 tk: Qt v: 5.15.6 info: latte-dock
wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: N/A v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: TUF GAMING X570-PRO (WI-FI) v: Rev X.0x
serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 4021
date: 08/10/2021
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M525
serial: <filter> charge: 100% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
status: discharging
CPU:
Info: model: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 gen: 3
level: v3 built: 2020-22 process: TSMC n7 (7nm) family: 0x17 (23)
model-id: 0x71 (113) stepping: 0 microcode: 0x8701021
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 12 tpc: 2 threads: 24 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 768 KiB desc: d-12x32 KiB; i-12x32 KiB L2: 6 MiB desc: 12x512 KiB
L3: 64 MiB desc: 4x16 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3816 high: 4395 min/max: 2200/4672 boost: enabled
scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: performance cores: 1: 3800 2: 3800
3: 3800 4: 3800 5: 4395 6: 3800 7: 3800 8: 3800 9: 3600 10: 3800 11: 3800
12: 3800 13: 3800 14: 3800 15: 3800 16: 3800 17: 3800 18: 3800 19: 3800
20: 3800 21: 3800 22: 3800 23: 3800 24: 3800 bogomips: 182409
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
Type: retbleed mitigation: untrained return thunk; SMT enabled with STIBP
protection
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, STIBP:
always-on, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA TU106 [GeForce RTX 2060 Rev. A] vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: nvidia v: 515.76 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 515.xx+
status: current (as of 2022-08) arch: Turing code: TUxxx
process: TSMC 12nm built: 2018-22 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16
link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s bus-ID: 0b:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1f08
class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.4 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.3
compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: nvidia unloaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa gpu: nvidia display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2646x800 s-dpi: 48 s-size: 1401x423mm (55.16x16.65")
s-diag: 1463mm (57.62")
Monitor-1: HDMI-0 pos: primary,bottom-r res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 51
size: 683x384mm (26.89x15.12") diag: 784mm (30.85") modes: N/A
Monitor-2: HDMI-1 pos: primary,top-left res: 1280x800 dpi: 32
size: 1010x570mm (39.76x22.44") diag: 1160mm (45.66") modes: N/A
OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA
515.76 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA TU106 High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 7-2:2 pcie: chip-ID: 0644:8070
gen: 3 class-ID: 0103 serial: <filter> speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 0b:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f9 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: TEAC US-2x2HR type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.19.13-zen1-1-zen running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: no
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.58 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: gen: 2
speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp6s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Ethernet I225-V vendor: ASUSTeK driver: igc v: kernel
pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: N/A bus-ID: 07:00.0
chip-ID: 8086:15f3 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp7s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: docker0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 1-4:2 chip-ID: 8087:0029 class-ID: e001
Report: bt-adapter ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down
bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes
address: <filter>
RAID:
Supported mdraid levels: raid0
Device-1: md0 maj-min: 9:0 type: mdraid level: raid-0 status: active
size: 931.27 GiB
Info: report: N/A blocks: 976508928 chunk-size: 512k super-blocks: 1.2
Components: Online:
0: sdb maj-min: 8:16 size: 465.76 GiB
1: sdc maj-min: 8:32 size: 465.76 GiB
Device-2: md1 maj-min: 9:1 type: mdraid level: raid-0 status: active
size: 1.82 TiB
Info: report: N/A blocks: 1953260544 chunk-size: 512k super-blocks: 1.2
Components: Online:
0: sdd maj-min: 8:48 size: 931.51 GiB
1: sde maj-min: 8:64 size: 931.51 GiB
Drives:
Local Storage: total: raw: 5.57 TiB usable: 5.57 TiB used: 1.43 TiB (25.7%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:4 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 980 PRO
250GB size: 232.89 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B
speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 1B2QGXA7
temp: 40.9 C scheme: MBR
ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 maj-min: 259:6 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 980 PRO
250GB size: 232.89 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B
speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 1B2QGXA7
temp: 40.9 C scheme: MBR
ID-3: /dev/nvme2n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital
model: WDS500G1X0E-00AFY0 size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
rev: 613000WD temp: 42.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-4: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital
model: WD20EARS-00MVWB0 size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: AB51
scheme: GPT
ID-5: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Hitachi model: HTS545050A7E380
size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B
speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: A6C0
ID-6: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Apple model: HDD ST500LM012
size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B
speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: 0007
ID-7: /dev/sdd maj-min: 8:48 vendor: Seagate model: ST31000528AS
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: CC44
ID-8: /dev/sde maj-min: 8:64 vendor: Toshiba model: MQ04ABF100
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B
speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: 1J
ID-9: /dev/sdf maj-min: 8:80 type: USB vendor: Samsung model: Flash Drive
FIT size: 119.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: SSD
serial: <filter> rev: 1100 scheme: GPT
SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 431.01 GiB size: 431.01 GiB (100.00%) used: 345.67 GiB
(80.2%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-7754f81f-1325-436b-a1ac-6d7f64ef6e6c
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%) used: 736 KiB
(0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme2n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
ID-3: /home raw-size: 431.01 GiB size: 431.01 GiB (100.00%) used: 345.67
GiB (80.2%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-7754f81f-1325-436b-a1ac-6d7f64ef6e6c
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 431.01 GiB size: 431.01 GiB (100.00%) used: 345.67
GiB (80.2%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-7754f81f-1325-436b-a1ac-6d7f64ef6e6c
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 431.01 GiB size: 431.01 GiB (100.00%) used: 345.67
GiB (80.2%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-7754f81f-1325-436b-a1ac-6d7f64ef6e6c
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 62.71 GiB used: 1024 KiB (0.0%)
priority: 100 dev: /dev/zram0
ID-2: swap-2 type: partition size: 34.45 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/dm-2 maj-min: 254:2
mapped: luks-665606bd-b7ed-4721-b6b3-8a96bfed8007
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 60.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 47 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0%
Info:
Processes: 471 Uptime: 1h 48m wakeups: 2 Memory: 62.71 GiB used: 5.52 GiB
(8.8%) Init: systemd v: 251 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers:
gcc: 12.2.0 clang: 14.0.6 Packages: 2061 pm: pacman pkgs: 2056 libs: 548
tools: gnome-software,octopi,pamac,paru pm: flatpak pkgs: 5 Shell: fish
v: 3.5.1 default: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.21
Garuda (2.6.8-1):
System install date:     2022-10-04
Last full system update: 2022-10-05 ↻
Is partially upgraded:   No
Relevant software:       NetworkManager
Windows dual boot:       No/Undetected
Snapshots:               Snapper
Failed units:            configure-printer@usb-001-003.service

[adossi]

Hi, i am on AMD rigs, and I did have sound/video issues all of a sudden; here is how I addressed them;
(1) i did a garuda-update;
(2) rebooted the machine;
(3) started playing audio & went to the info center on the upper left and made sure that the app had the correct assignment on sound device, etc. I am on KDE, so I am not sure if GNOME has the same issues.
(4) I did see an update come through for some KDE packages, and that is when I had the hickup, but another update came through and now everything works fine.
Sound issues though with KDE, if that is what you are running are not exclusive to this distro, I have had sound issues with Opensuse & Fedora before.
The thing with KDE is that it is so customizable that sometimes a user can make changes without even realizing they are making changes, and then problems ensue.
I reread your file, you are on KDE, so yes work with the sound app and see if it will fix things.

[firephynix]

That actually sounds more along the lines of another audio issue I occasionally have, where my USB audio has to be unplugged/replugged to get recognized, and/or have to change audio to correct device. I've done all of those steps more than once, and still having the same problem. Thanks for the response.

[Javabean]

i too have noticed such issues. but i have been logging my updates and can't find a common point of failure. try using the -lts kernel or try -mainline (currently on linux 6.0) and see if your problem resolves itself.

[Kayo]

Problems with sound on garuda

Could this possibly be an issue with JamesDSP again like in this thread: Videos not playing It shouldn't autostart anymore, but maybe some people have it set to start still? Try quitting out of JamesDSP if you have it running to see if that is the issue or not. (I have not experienced issues like in the forum thread I linked since I removed JamesDSP ) Edit: not sure why my post was moved here...? Edit2: thanks Bluish

had this issue before and it was linked to problems with JamesDSP running.

[adossi]

hi, not familiar with JamesDCP; is this a service running that I should disable? I saw a couple of updates coming through since yesterday one of them was saying pulse audio, i rebooted, and keeping my fingers crossed sound is working ok not and videos don't stutter anymore.

[hexiejexie]

You can go to System Settings > startup and shutdown > autostart > press the remove button for jamesDSP
No reason to keep it there if you dont use it

[dr460nf1r3]

Its also no longer autostarted since of lately.

[firephynix]

I'm still waiting for it to happen again. As soon as it does, I will disable JamesDSP, and see what the immediate result is.

[Javabean]

it just happened to me again, disabled jamesdsp and now i have sound after a reboot... so that is full update then reboot, no sound. disable jamesdsp from startup, reboot. now i have sound right away

[firephynix]

Problem finally happened to me again, so I uninstalled JamesDSP and rebooted with no problems since. Unfortunately, its too intermittent for me to say that JamesDSP solved the problem. The best thing is to assume it worked if I never post on the problem again, and since it seems to be the solution for everyone else. Thanks for the help all!