Posted solution said to downgrade kernel.
Just confirming that upgrading from 5.15.81-1 to 6.0.11-1 also is a solution.
Just issue with 5.15.81 LTS perhaps.
Hi All
I’ve got the exact problem.
has somebody solved it so far?
what is the solution?
So far disabling the LTS kernel and using 6.0.11-1 seems to fix my audio issues, with no noticeable downsides yet on Manjaro GNOME (tried YouTube in Firefox, VLC and Clementine)
Just to add that I have exactly the same issue but using pipewire. Restarting wireplumber fixes it for a short time and the sound generally stays as long as for example a video is playing. I’ve tried disabling power management for the sound card but that didn’t make a difference.
Welcome to Manjaro forum
Popular opinion here favours the short-term solution of downgrading kernel
In other discussions users chose to upgrade to kernel v6.0, because it is simpler (Manjaro has good tools for managing kernels but not downgrading) and better in the long-term
If the developers are aware of the problems with LTS kernels and pull whatever is causing the audio issue, later versions of LTS kernels will be ok. But it would still take a while for changes to land in Manjaro stable branch packages
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I’m in the same boat. If you had the previous linux kernel version installed and haven’t cleared your pacman cache, you should be able to just use sudo downgrade linux515 then select version 5.15.78-1.
However, if you have NVIDIA drivers this will cause problems (because of course), I’m currently trying to figure out how to downgrade all the packages that are conflicting with the minor version change, but IDK if that will be in any way stable or even possible.
Also, just want to confirm, I’m using pipewire so this issue doesn’t seem to be with pulseaudio. Maybe a KDE issue since I haven’t seen anyone say they’re using GNOME?
EDIT:
In case someone finds this helpful, downgrading the following packages seems to have resolved the issues and keeps me with a stable system (so far). This will differ based on what nvidia drivers you have. DO NOT do this if you can upgrade to linux 6.0 instead as partial downgrades can break a lot of stuff.
linux515 = 5.15.78-1
linux515-nvidia-470xx = 470.141.03-24
nvidia-470xx-utils = 470.141.03-3
lib32-nvidia-470xx-utils = 470.141.03-1
the last 3 must be downgraded at once eg;
downgrade linux515
downgrade linux515-nvidia-470xx nvidia-470xx-utils lib32-nvidia-470xx-utils
The last update did not include any new PulseAudio packages and there have been no reports of issues with PipeWire updates. The confirmed solutions of upgrading or downgrading kernel indicate that the issue is not due to either software sound server
Users can install multiple kernel versions on Manjaro, it is often recommended that users have a 2nd kernel installed as a backup if there is any problem booting to preferred kernel.
If kernel v6.0 works as expected, downgrading v5.15 kernel is not needed. Users can check future updates of kernel v5.15 to determine if it has been fixed
I confirm 6.0.11-1 solves it, thanks bro
Strange but nice:
Did a whole system update with LTS linux515 on holdpackage … sound was ok but no prime-run for my second nvidia gpu.
Then i installed as a try linux60 and linux60 worked PLUS(!) also updated(!!) LTS kernel linux515
I don’t understand why Linux60 makes linux515 running???
Someone shed some light on this issue? But i don’t want spend much more time on this issue … it’s running 
Info
john1@manjaro ~]$ inxi -F
System:
Host: manjaro Kernel: 5.15.81-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce
v: 4.16.1 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 81RS v: Lenovo Yoga S740-14IIL
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0J40709 WIN
serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO v: BYCN39WW date: 05/28/2021
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 62.3 Wh (95.4%) condition: 65.3/62.0 Wh (105.3%)
CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-1065G7 bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache:
L2: 2 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1502 min/max: 400/3900 cores: 1: 1200 2: 2113 3: 2268
4: 1273 5: 1266 6: 1300 7: 1300 8: 1301
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: NVIDIA GP108M [GeForce MX250] driver: nvidia v: 525.60.11
Device-3: Chicony Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia
unloaded: nouveau dri: iris gpu: i915 resolution: 1: 1920x1080~60Hz 2: N/A
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 22.2.4 renderer: Mesa Intel Iris Plus Graphics
(ICL GT2)
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Ice Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio
driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-icl
Sound API: ALSA v: k5.15.81-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.61 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ice Lake-LP PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi
IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: 04:33:c2:02:de:51
Device-2: Realtek RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter type: USB driver: r8152
IF: enp0s13f0u1u4 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full
mac: 4c:e1:73:42:1f:6b
IF-ID-1: pan1 state: down mac: 7a:5c:6a:f4:06:56
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.08 TiB used: 462.49 GiB (21.7%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Micron model: MTFDHBA1T0TCK size: 953.87 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sda type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Ultra size: 233.25 GiB
ID-3: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EARX-00N0YB0
size: 931.51 GiB
ID-4: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Kingston model: DataTraveler 2.0
size: 14.54 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 57.85 GiB used: 43.47 GiB (75.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p8
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 259.5 MiB used: 114.2 MiB (44.0%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 16.67 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p9
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 54.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 274 Uptime: 12m Memory: 15.19 GiB used: 2.32 GiB (15.3%)
Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.24
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Ok, just learned: don’t set a thread “mute”, german “stumm geschaltet” as i did with Stable updates 06.12.2022
Data in post #12 for kernel 5.10.157 shows driver sof-audio-pci
Data in post #34 for kernel 5.15.18 shows new driver sof-audio-pci-intel-icl
Online hardware data for similar audio devices confirms new driver supported from kernel v5.12
https://linux-hardware.org/?id=pci:8086-34c8-17aa-3810
Thanks for that information!
I now only use linux60 and linux515 so no more linux510.
Linux60:
john1@manjaro lazarus]$ inxi -F
System:
Host: manjaro Kernel: 6.0.11-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce
v: 4.16.1 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 81RS v: Lenovo Yoga S740-14IIL
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0J40709 WIN
serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO v: BYCN39WW date: 05/28/2021
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 62.1 Wh (95.1%) condition: 65.3/62.0 Wh (105.3%)
CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-1065G7 bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache:
L2: 2 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1462 min/max: 400/3900 cores: 1: 1500 2: 1200 3: 1500
4: 1500 5: 1500 6: 1500 7: 1500 8: 1500
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: NVIDIA GP108M [GeForce MX250] driver: nvidia v: 525.60.11
Device-3: Chicony Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia
unloaded: nouveau dri: iris gpu: i915 resolution: 1: 1920x1080~60Hz 2: N/A
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 22.2.4 renderer: Mesa Intel Iris Plus Graphics
(ICL GT2)
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Ice Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio
driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-icl
Sound API: ALSA v: k6.0.11-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.61 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ice Lake-LP PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi
IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: 04:33:c2:02:de:51
Device-2: Realtek RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter type: USB driver: r8152
IF: enp0s13f0u1u4 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full
mac: 4c:e1:73:42:1f:6b
IF-ID-1: pan1 state: down mac: 7a:5c:6a:f4:06:56
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.08 TiB used: 470.04 GiB (22.0%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Micron model: MTFDHBA1T0TCK size: 953.87 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sda type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Ultra size: 233.25 GiB
ID-3: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EARX-00N0YB0
size: 931.51 GiB
ID-4: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Kingston model: DataTraveler 2.0
size: 14.54 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 57.85 GiB used: 40.61 GiB (70.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p8
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 259.5 MiB used: 114.2 MiB (44.0%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 16.67 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p9
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 53.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 269 Uptime: 32m Memory: 15.19 GiB used: 2.59 GiB (17.0%)
Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.24
Hi! I tried upgrading to linux 6.0.11-1 from the manjaro settings manager and then using pacman. Both seems to be upgrading my nvidia drivers as well.
But when I boot back in with the new kernel I get a blank screen with a cursor at the top.
How can I fix this issue?
I have bunch of apps that I work with, hope they don’t have problem with the new kernel 
thanks for answering
Be careful what you wish for
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This version doesn’t work for me because the kernel does not load.
but I tried to downgrade the version to “Linux 5.10.157.-1” and finally works.
I am also in the same boat and I also have a nvidia card so the kernel 6 is not an option.
I followed your same strategy to downgrade the packages.
In addition to downgrading linux515 to 5.15.78-1 i dowgraded these packages.
downgrading package lib32-nvidia-utils (525.60.11-1 => 520.56.06-1)
downgrading package linux510-nvidia (525.60.11-2 => 520.56.06-10)
downgrading package linux515-nvidia (525.60.11-2 => 520.56.06-9)
downgrading package nvidia-utils (525.60.11-2 => 520.56.06-2)
Seems to work fine for now.
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On XFCE I downgraded from 5.15.81-1 to 5.15.79_rt54-1 and it seems stable. My sound would work until i logged into Youtube, at which point it would break??? Anyways I hope devs will have a fix and I appreciate everyone’s help here.
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