Bluetooth and audio is not working on i3

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Hello, everyone. I recently switched from Manjaro KDE to i3, and I’m facing issues with my Bluetooth and audio. I’ve been trying to resolve the problem for the past two days, but unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find a solution. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

this is my inxi output

System:
  Kernel: 6.5.13-7-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
    clocksource: tsc available: hpet,acpi_pm
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.5-x86_64
    root=UUID=486a36f0-b553-4c65-a1ae-7593253e65fe rw quiet apparmor=1
    security=apparmor resume=UUID=f4c89022-4446-4258-a8dd-43ef0ba6b1cc
    udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: i3 v: 4.23 info: i3bar vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0
    Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: Victus by HP Gaming Laptop 15-fb0xxx v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 8A3F v: 35.43 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: AMI
    v: F.16 date: 12/13/2022
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 50.0 Wh (100.0%) condition: 50.0/50.0 Wh (100.0%)
    volts: 13.1 min: 11.6 model: HP Primary type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
    status: full cycles: 43
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M185
    serial: <filter> charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
    status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD Ryzen 5 5600H with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Zen 3 gen: 4 level: v3 note: check built: 2021-22
    process: TSMC n7 (7nm) family: 0x19 (25) model-id: 0x50 (80) stepping: 0
    microcode: 0xA50000D
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 3 MiB desc: 6x512 KiB L3: 16 MiB
    desc: 1x16 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 531 high: 1978 min/max: 400/4280 scaling:
    driver: amd-pstate-epp governor: powersave cores: 1: 400 2: 1978 3: 400
    4: 400 5: 400 6: 400 7: 400 8: 400 9: 400 10: 400 11: 400 12: 400
    bogomips: 79084
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Vulnerable: Safe RET, no microcode
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
    STIBP: always-on, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 24 [Radeon RX 6400/6500 XT/6500M] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-2 code: Navi-2x process: TSMC n7 (7nm)
    built: 2020-22 pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none
    empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:743f class-ID: 0380
  Device-2: AMD Cezanne [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Mobile Series]
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-5 code: Vega
    process: GF 14nm built: 2017-20 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1
    bus-ID: 08:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:1638 class-ID: 0300 temp: 45.0 C
  Device-3: Chicony HP Wide Vision HD Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
    rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-3:4 chip-ID: 04f2:b766
    class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.10 compositor: Picom v: git-b700a
    driver: X: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting,radeon alternate: fbdev,vesa
    dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-size: <missing: xdpyinfo>
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 mapped: eDP model: ChiMei InnoLux 0x1521 built: 2020
    res: 1920x1080 hz: 144 dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x193mm (13.54x7.6")
    diag: 394mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi
    device: 1 drv: radeonsi device: 2 drv: swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi x11:
    drv: radeonsi inactive: gbm,wayland
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 23.1.9-manjaro1.1
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon Graphics (renoir LLVM
    16.0.6 DRM 3.54 6.5.13-7-MANJARO) device-ID: 1002:1638 memory: 500 MiB
    unified: no
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab28 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 08:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_rn_pci_acp3x v: kernel alternate: snd_pci_acp3x, snd_pci_acp5x,
    snd_pci_acp6x, snd_acp_pci, snd_rpl_pci_acp6x, snd_pci_ps,
    snd_sof_amd_renoir, snd_sof_amd_rembrandt pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s
    lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 08:00.5
    chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480
  Device-4: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 08:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3
    class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.5.13-7-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
    type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: off tools: pw-cli
  Server-3: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: active with: pulseaudio-alsa
    type: plugin tools: pacat,pactl,pavucontrol
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: f000 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: MEDIATEK MT7922 802.11ax PCI Express Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: Foxconn driver: mt7921e v: kernel pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1
    bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 14c3:0616 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Foxconn / Hon Hai Wireless_Device driver: N/A type: USB rev: 2.1
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-4:5 chip-ID: 0489:e0e0
    class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 484.39 GiB used: 71.67 GiB (14.8%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD PC
    SN810 SDCPNRY-512G-1006 size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
    fw-rev: HPS2 temp: 39.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: SanDisk model: Cruzer Blade
    size: 7.45 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: USB rev: 2.0
    spd: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 tech: N/A serial: <filter> fw-rev: 1.26
    scheme: MBR
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 460.18 GiB size: 451.89 GiB (98.20%)
    used: 71.67 GiB (15.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: yes
    compressor: zstd max-pool: 20%
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 16.46 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 60.8 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): fan-1: 2695 fan-2: 2395
  GPU: device: amdgpu temp: 40.0 C mem: 56.0 C fan: 0 watts: 2.00
    device: amdgpu temp: 44.0 C
Info:
  Processes: 326 Uptime: 1h 17m wakeups: 0 Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est.
  available: 14.97 GiB used: 3.18 GiB (21.3%) Init: systemd v: 254
  default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 13.2.1 clang: 16.0.6
  Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1260 libs: 322 tools: pamac,yay Shell: Bash
  v: 5.2.21 running-in: alacritty inxi: 3.3.31

If you guys need any other info just let me know
Thanks :slightly_smiling_face:

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Hi @ThatDumbDude,

I doubt your nick is accurate, but in order for us, or anyone for that matter, to be able to provide assistance, more information is necessary. To that end, please see:

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If your language isn’t English, please prepend any and all terminal commands with LC_ALL=C. For example:

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This will just cause the terminal output to be in English, making it easier to understand and debug.

Please edit your post accordingly.

Edit:

(Reply on your changes)

That might explain it…

According to this page:

The device is supported by kernel versions 6.1 and newer according to the LKDDb

So I don’t understand why it’s not there…

In any case, try a newer kernel, perhaps 6.6, the latest LTS and see if that makes a difference.

Your current kernel is anyway EOL, and has been since 28 November 2023 which means you’ve been a naughty one who didn’t keep their system up-to-date. So you should do that in any case.

Hope this helps!

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upgraded to 6.6.8 and not working
the other problem with the sound is , in is always muted and when i increase the volume using pavucontrol it goes down to 37% then to zero . and it is really annoying.
man KDE was much easier :sweat_smile:

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Makes me doubly glad I use KDE…

Edit:

Please post the output of:

rfkill
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Disable decibel scaling of audio levels so that PulseAudio uses percentage values for audio levels

sudo sed -i 's/load-module module-udev-detect/load module module-udev-detect ignore_dB=1/g' /etc/pulse/default.pa

wiki.archlinux.org/PulseAudio – No sound below a volume cutoff or Clipping on a particular output device
If sound does not play when PulseAudio’s volume is set below a certain level, or if you hear clipping on output even at low volume (including bluetooth devices), try setting ignore_dB=1 in /etc/pulse/default.pa

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ID TYPE DEVICE      SOFT      HARD
 0 wlan phy0   unblocked unblocked
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Then it all looks good according to me, and

:man_shrugging: