hi, neither one nor the other. here is the return of the `aplay -l -L` command on my lenovo : null Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) default:CARD=sofhdadsp sof-hda-dsp, Default Audio Device sysdefault:CARD=sofhdadsp sof-hda-dsp, Default Audio Device **** Liste des périphériques matériels PLAYBACK **** carte 0 : sofhdadsp [sof-hda-dsp], périphérique 0 : HDA Analog (*) [] Sous-périphériques : 1/1 Sous-périphérique #0 : subdevice #0 carte 0 : sofhdadsp [sof-hda-dsp], périphérique 1 : HDA Digital (*) [] Sous-périphériques : 1/1 Sous-périphérique #0 : subdevice #0 carte 0 : sofhdadsp [sof-hda-dsp], périphérique 3 : HDMI1 (*) [] Sous-périphériques : 1/1 Sous-périphérique #0 : subdevice #0 carte 0 : sofhdadsp [sof-hda-dsp], périphérique 4 : HDMI2 (*) [] Sous-périphériques : 1/1 Sous-périphérique #0 : subdevice #0 carte 0 : sofhdadsp [sof-hda-dsp], périphérique 5 : HDMI3 (*) [] Sous-périphériques : 1/1 Sous-périphérique #0 : subdevice #0 snd_hda_intel is loaded with `options snd_hda_intel enable=0,1` to disable HDMI output. regards. Le ven. 6 mai 2022 à 03:14, Neven Sajko <nsajko@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > Do you perhaps have any /etc/asound.conf or .asoundrc or similarly named > files messing up your sound config? > > Additionally (another wild guess), try running aplay -l -L and report the > output. > > On Thu, May 5, 2022, 16:00 Pascal via arch-general < > arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I checked in my session the concurrent accesses with fuser -v /dev/snd/* >> and killed the only one that was present and could interfere (volumeicon >> *that >> was also present with Firefox and Mplayer*). >> >> Le jeu. 5 mai 2022 à 15:50, Pascal <patatetom@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit : >> >> > Alsa directly : no PA or PW. >> > >> > when i run Chromium from a terminal, i get these two error messages >> about >> > Alsa but they also appear when the sound is working : >> > [4765:4765:0504/164956.649650:ERROR:alsa_util.cc(204)] PcmOpen: >> > default,Device or resource busy >> > [4765:4765:0504/164956.649811:ERROR:alsa_util.cc(204)] PcmOpen: >> > plug:default,Device or resource busy >> > >> > Le jeu. 5 mai 2022 à 15:46, Jesse Jaara via arch-general < >> > arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit : >> > >> >> Are you using Alsa directly, no pulseaudio or pipewire? Something >> could be >> >> wonky with your dmix config and it's getting disabled, thus only a >> single >> >> application can have access to the sound playback at once. >> >> >> > >> >