Fresh Arch install in i3-wm: Can't unmute audio

[AKM123]

Hello all,
This morning I made a fresh Arch install. I am trying to unmute my audio, but the instructions and the commands I've found on the Arch Wiki for

alsamixer

and

$ amixer sset Master unmute
$ amixer sset Speaker unmute
$ amixer sset Headphone unmute

don't work; the output is

bash: amixer: command not found

, and then when I try to use pacman to install either amixer or alsamixer, I get:

[user@archlinux ~]$ sudo pacman -S amixer
error: target not found: amixer
[user@archlinux ~]$ sudo pacman -S alsamixer
error: target not found: alsamixer

PS: As a side note, I'm seem unable to register on the Arch Forums' CAPTCHA, because I can't copy and paste text to or from my terminal, and so the answer to What is the output of "date -u +%V$(uname)|sha384sum|sed 's/\W//g'"? is always incorrect for me; if someone could provide the answer to this so that I can cut and paste it, that would be great.

 

[KGIII]

It looks like Alsa isn't installed. You might have pipewire or pulseaudio? I'm not really fluent in Arch these days.

 

[AKM123]

Okay then; I believe I do have pulseaudio, because I specifically selected it during the install. So assuming I don't have Also installed, how would I unmute my machine with pulseaudio?

 

[AKM123]

Update: I went to the ArchWiki page on Pulseaudio, and went to the section on muting/unmuting. When I ran the command:

[austin@archlinux ~]$ pactl set-sink-mute 0 toggle

from the ArchWiki, no sound played on two random YouTube videos. Then I did this input and output:

[austin@archlinux ~]$ pactl list sinks short
0    alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo    module-alsa-card.c    s16le 2ch 44100Hz    SUSPENDED

I had to manually retype the terminal content because I can't seem to figure out how to cut and paste anything with the terminal, so I hope this is accurate.

 

[Alexzee]

Read here:

How to mute/unmute default sound output

What's the generic way to mute/unmute my system's default sound output? $ amixer set Master mute amixer: Unable to find simple control 'Master',0 $ amixer scontrols Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0

unix.stackexchange.com

 

[AKM123]

The command

pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ +100%

did the trick. Thanks!

 

[Alexzee]

The command

pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ +100%

did the trick. Thanks!

You're welcome....glad to hear it:-