Experiencing no sound in Proton games (Cyberpunk 2077, RDR2), and while the game is launched no new audio client entries appear in pavucontrol or pw-top.
Audio works normally in native Linux apps and games (Dead Cells).
PipeWire and pipewire-pulse are running and working (pactl info confirms PulseAudio on PipeWire). The 32-bit audio stack is installed (lib32-libpulse, lib32-pipewire, lib32-alsa-plugins, lib32-libsndfile) and I can run a successful 32-bit speaker test.
I’ve tested multiple proton versions: Cachy’s, Experimental, Proton 9.0, GE-Proton 10-34.
I’ve reinstalled the pipewire stack and steam, including ( I think? Might have gone into a dream-like debugging trance ) compiling and building the steam-native version. I’ve also reinstalled Cyberpunk to see if it was the game itself.
I wonder if I borked my system somehow while I was playing with a Super Collider-based application (sonic-pi) that has since been removed. If I removed unused dependencies for that, perhaps I also removed dependencies that steam runtime needs? Still, wouldn’t reinstalling the cachyos-gaming packages fix that up?
Current state information:
cachyos-gaming-meta 1:1.0.0-6
cachyos-gaming-applications 1.0.0-2
proton-cachyos-slr 1:10.0.20260320-2
pipewire 1:1.6.2-1.1
pipewire-pulse 1:1.6.2-1.1
wireplumber 0.5.13-2.1
steam 1.0.0.85-5
lib32-libpulse 17.0+r98+gb096704c0-1
lib32-alsa-plugins 1.2.12-1
lib32-libsndfile 1.2.2-3
Here are my relevant steam logs:
/home/heidi/steam-1091500.log:3073.175:0170:0174:trace:loaddll:build_module Loaded L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winepulse.drv" at 00006FFFEFB90000: b
uiltin
/home/heidi/steam-1091500.log:3073.175:0170:0174:trace:loaddll:free_modref Unloaded module L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winepulse.drv" : builtin
/home/heidi/steam-1091500.log:3073.175:0170:0174:trace:loaddll:build_module Loaded L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winealsa.drv" at 00006FFFEFB90000: bu
iltin
/home/heidi/steam-1091500.log:ALSA lib dlmisc.c:339:(snd_dlobj_cache_get0) Cannot open shared library libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so (libsndfile.s
o.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
/home/heidi/steam-1091500.log:ALSA lib dlmisc.c:339:(snd_dlobj_cache_get0) Cannot open shared library libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so (libsndfile.s
o.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
/home/heidi/steam-1174180.log:12603.538:0328:032c:trace:loaddll:build_module Loaded L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winepulse.drv" at 00006FFFED6D0000:
builtin
/home/heidi/steam-1174180.log:12603.539:0328:032c:trace:loaddll:free_modref Unloaded module L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winepulse.drv" : builtin
/home/heidi/steam-1174180.log:12603.539:0328:032c:trace:loaddll:build_module Loaded L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winealsa.drv" at 00006FFFED6D0000: b
uiltin
/home/heidi/steam-1174180.log:ALSA lib dlmisc.c:339:(snd_dlobj_cache_get0) Cannot open shared library libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so (libsndfile.s
o.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
/home/heidi/steam-1174180.log:ALSA lib dlmisc.c:339:(snd_dlobj_cache_get0) Cannot open shared library libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so (libsndfile.s
o.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
/home/heidi/steam-1174180.log:12605.857:06dc:06e0:trace:loaddll:build_module Loaded L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winepulse.drv" at 00006FFFED7A0000:
builtin
/home/heidi/steam-1174180.log:12605.857:06dc:06e0:trace:loaddll:free_modref Unloaded module L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winepulse.drv" : builtin
/home/heidi/steam-1174180.log:12605.857:06dc:06e0:trace:loaddll:build_module Loaded L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winealsa.drv" at 00006FFFED6D0000: b
uiltin
/home/heidi/steam-1174180.log:ALSA lib dlmisc.c:339:(snd_dlobj_cache_get0) Cannot open shared library libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so (libsndfile.s
o.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
/home/heidi/steam-1174180.log:ALSA lib dlmisc.c:339:(snd_dlobj_cache_get0) Cannot open shared library libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so (libsndfile.s
o.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
/home/heidi/steam-1174180.log:12607.816:0140:0144:trace:loaddll:build_module Loaded L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winepulse.drv" at 00006FFFEBF80000:
builtin
/home/heidi/steam-1174180.log:12607.816:0140:0144:trace:loaddll:free_modref Unloaded module L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winepulse.drv" : builtin
/home/heidi/steam-1174180.log:12607.817:0140:0144:trace:loaddll:build_module Loaded L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winealsa.drv" at 00006FFFED6D0000: b
uiltin
/home/heidi/steam-1174180.log:ALSA lib dlmisc.c:339:(snd_dlobj_cache_get0) Cannot open shared library libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so (libsndfile.s
o.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
/home/heidi/steam-1174180.log:ALSA lib dlmisc.c:339:(snd_dlobj_cache_get0) Cannot open shared library libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so (libsndfile.s
o.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
/home/heidi/steam-1174180.log:12611.045:0140:0860:warn:threadname:NtSetInformationThread Thread renamed to L"audio_client_main"
/home/heidi/steam-1174180.log:12620.792:0864:0868:trace:loaddll:build_module Loaded L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winepulse.drv" at 00006FFFEB830000:
builtin
/home/heidi/steam-1174180.log:12620.792:0864:0868:trace:loaddll:free_modref Unloaded module L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winepulse.drv" : builtin
/home/heidi/steam-1174180.log:12620.793:0864:0868:trace:loaddll:build_module Loaded L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winealsa.drv" at 00006FFFED6D0000: b
uiltin
/home/heidi/steam-1174180.log:ALSA lib dlmisc.c:339:(snd_dlobj_cache_get0) Cannot open shared library libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so (libsndfile.s
o.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
/home/heidi/steam-1174180.log:ALSA lib dlmisc.c:339:(snd_dlobj_cache_get0) Cannot open shared library libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so (libsndfile.s
o.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
/home/heidi/steam-1174180.log:12621.645:0864:0a1c:warn:threadname:NtSetInformationThread Thread renamed to L"audio_client_main"
/home/heidi/steam-1174180.log:12621.712:0864:0868:fixme:mmdevapi:control_RegisterAudioSessionNotification (0000000038526610)->(0000000143BE6AB8)
- stub
/home/heidi/steam-1174180.log:12621.716:0864:0a20:warn:threadname:NtSetInformationThread Thread renamed to L"audio_client_timer"
Output from journalctl:
Mar 29 10:22:00 Angelic-Garbox wireplumber[2212]: wp-event-dispatcher: <WpAsyncEventHook:0x55ff622ae0d0> failed: failed to activate item: Object activation aborted: proxy destroyed Mar 29 10:23:20 Angelic-Garbox wireplumber[2212]: wp-event-dispatcher: <WpAsyncEventHook:0x55ff622ae0d0> failed: failed to activate item: Object activation aborted: proxy destroyed Mar 29 10:23:21 Angelic-Garbox wireplumber[2212]: wp-event-dispatcher: <WpAsyncEventHook:0x55ff622ae0d0> failed: failed to activate item: Object activation aborted: proxy destroyed Mar 29 10:24:48 Angelic-Garbox wireplumber[2212]: wp-event-dispatcher: <WpAsyncEventHook:0x55ff622ae0d0> failed: failed to activate item: Object activation aborted: proxy destroyed Mar 29 10:24:48 Angelic-Garbox wireplumber[2212]: wp-event-dispatcher: <WpAsyncEventHook:0x55ff6228b440> failed: <WpSiStandardLink:0x55ff6236cdf0> link failed: 1 of 1 PipeWire links failed to activate
Full Cachy Os bug report: https://paste.cachyos.org/p/3606801.log
I’ve been debugging for a few days. I’m confident the audio in RDR2 at least used to work but not sure on how long ago (I only play games ~once/month but I use my pc and update frequently…)
I’ll appreciate any recommendations on where I can go from here! Thank you for your time.