@brickwizard and @captain-sensible, okay so this took some reading and sadly the solution was simple (once I understood). So I did the following:
From Terminal:
1. sudo pacman -S pulseaudio-alsa
2. reboot
3. sudo pacam -S pavucontrol
From Awesome Window Manager:
1. Super R to open run prompt and run pavucontrol
2. On the opening tab (playback) I could see audio playing (I left a youtube video playing prior to)
3. Click Output Devices and while speakers were selected the "built in Audio Analog Stereo was muted.
4. Click the speaker icon to unmute and sound works as it should.
I looked in ALSA and everything looked correct, nothing was muted so there must have been something there I was missing. I would like to know just for learning. While this corrected the issue and resolved the problem I just wanted to update everyone and ensure I put good instructions here for the next person who may have this same issue.
@brickwizard Should I go back to the original post to mark it as SOLVED sir?
From Terminal:
1. sudo pacman -S pulseaudio-alsa
2. reboot
3. sudo pacam -S pavucontrol
From Awesome Window Manager:
1. Super R to open run prompt and run pavucontrol
2. On the opening tab (playback) I could see audio playing (I left a youtube video playing prior to)
3. Click Output Devices and while speakers were selected the "built in Audio Analog Stereo was muted.
4. Click the speaker icon to unmute and sound works as it should.
I looked in ALSA and everything looked correct, nothing was muted so there must have been something there I was missing. I would like to know just for learning. While this corrected the issue and resolved the problem I just wanted to update everyone and ensure I put good instructions here for the next person who may have this same issue.
@brickwizard Should I go back to the original post to mark it as SOLVED sir?