Call sound and earpiece issue

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PulseAudio issues, programs conflicting and only one will play audio

Please advise which applications are taking exclusive control of audio devices System data shows both PulseAudio and PipeWire sound servers are running Pipewire developers have recently advised that both sound servers running simultaneously will cause conflicts FAQ · Wiki · PipeWire / pipewire · GitLab running pulseaudio together with a PipeWire setup configured for audio is not supported (and will fail as both servers fight for devices). I suggest you disable PipeWire server systemctl -…

PulseAudio service is in failed state

As pipewire.socket was only closed and is still enabled, it will restart on next boot and start pipewire.service I suggest you disable the socket and session manager service systemctl --user disable pipewire.socket pipewire-media-session.service ran the removal again and added the gst-plugin-pipewire recieved the dependency error again but this time it was kwin Xfce with kwin is not something I have seen on Manjaro before. I think it is more a thing on some other Arch-based distributions.…

Only one in 20 boots have sound

ALSA is not a software sound server like the other 3 servers shown. ALSA works within the kernel like a Hardware Abstraction Layer to tie the hardware devices and drivers together The other sound servers run outside the kernel and rely on ALSA for sending audio streams to analog jack sockets, HDMI outputs or USB devices (ALSA does not support Bluetooth audio) But PipeWire and PulseAudio should not be running simultaneously as they are known to conflict I suggest you either: Install manjar…