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IdT

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Registered: 2026-08-08

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pavucontrol Volume Control DRI3 error

Running XFCE on archlinux with noveau drivers,
GeForce GTX 970 as GPU and Intel Xeon Prozessor E3-1220 v3 as CPU.

Tried opening "Volume Control", got stuck at the screen "Establishing connection to PulseAudio. Please wait..." for several minutes.
Ran Pavucontrol, which opened Volume Control to the same screen.

[idt@archlinux ~] $ pavucontrol
libEGL warning: DRI3 error: Could not get DRI3 device
libEGL warning: Ensure your X server supports DRI3 to get accelerated rendering

(pavucontrol:22533): Gdk-WARNING **: 11:45:24.854: vkCreateSwapchainKHR(): Initialization of an object could not be completed for implementation-specific reasons. (VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED) (-3)

Tried updating pavucontrol and PulseAudio, scrolled through Arch Troubleshooting page for help and then XFCE's Troubleshooting. alsamixer works just fine, but I'd like to get this working too.
This is a fresh install of arch, and my first time using XFCE. Did I break something?

eriefisher

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Re: pavucontrol Volume Control DRI3 error

This appears to be a video driver issue. It can't find what is providing DRI. Are you missing something for the xserver? Mesa package maybe? Vulkan or gallium?

Is there a reason why you still using Pulseaudio? It hasn't been updated since late 2024.

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IdT

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Registered: 2026-08-08

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Re: pavucontrol Volume Control DRI3 error

This appears to be a video driver issue. It can't find what is providing DRI. Are you missing something for the xserver? Mesa package maybe? Vulkan or gallium?

Is there a reason why you still using Pulseaudio? It hasn't been updated since late 2024.

Checked again, I seem to have everything installed properly...
I'm just using it because it was what was default in my system. Do you recommend something different?

eriefisher

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Re: pavucontrol Volume Control DRI3 error

I don't know if it will fix your issue but Pipewire is a dropin replacement for pulseaudio. It does use a couple components of pulseaudio like pavucontrol and there is piewire-pulse for compatibility.

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But it's all right, when you're all in pain and you feel the rain come down
It's alright, when you find your way, then you see it disappear
It's alright....
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