Hello, I’m having this problem every time I start the system with KDE. I have my headphones in the LR output from the motherboard. To make them work I have to change the profile to an input-only mode and the choose Stereo or Duplex to be detected. Previously I run XFCE for a couple of weeks without any problems. I tried several solutions in the forum but anything changed. I’m trying kernel 5.8 now (5.7 until 5 minutes ago) but again with no succsess. Also the multimedia keys don’t work, even with the Audio config panel open. The shortcuts are under the Global category. I remember using them, in the first days of the install and I didn’t change anything in the audio category.
Thanks in advance.
Hello,
It might help to know the brand of headphone you are using? does the Headphone have a mic? or not. When it comes to headphones, it should be output stereo or duplex as I can’t see it being a input device unless it has built in mic. I have had two different keyboards, the current one is a Qamdias Hermes lite and I haven’t been able to get the mulitmedia keys to work. Maybe someone can help with that.
However Can you pls post your Inxi -F -a -z-y output so we can know what type of system you have.
I would post a link to “How to provide good Information” to help with providing information that will lead to a solution. But it won’t allow me to do that.
Hello @yawanathan, thanks for your reply and helping me posting more accurately.
Mi headphones are the Sennheiser HD202 , L and R output only. I’m using the connected in the green port at the back panel (where usually we connect speakers). Apart from that I have a generic and very simple microphone for online classes in the microphone input also in the back panel (the pink one). That’s why I use Duplex, but it doesn’t make any change to leave at Analog Stereo either, It’s changed back to Dummy when I restart or startup the system.
The front panel is empty and I’m not planning to connect or disconnect more devices.
I used this setup on Manajaro 20 XFCE for three weeks and never have a problem but I want to use KDE for customization and practical reasons. Yesterday I installed a new XFCE partition and everything was working fine.
For media keys I had to put the audio widget on the Latte dock for them to work. I don’t use a system tray or panel.
Thanks again, here is the output of my system.
Cheers!
System:
Kernel: 5.8.3-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.8-x86_64
root=UUID=ed89482d-466f-4690-9b0c-7df8c8597eb0 rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor resume=UUID=6e0934ed-6b43-4022-9d37-0caddd35e4df
udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.19.4 tk: Qt 5.15.0 info: latte-dock wm: kwin_x11
dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: Z87X-UD3H v: N/A serial: <filter>
Chassis: type: 3 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Gigabyte model: Z87X-UD3H-CF v: x.x serial: <filter>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: F3 date: 04/17/2013
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard serial: <filter>
charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging
CPU:
Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-4770K bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Haswell family: 6 model-id: 3C (60) stepping: 3 microcode: 28
L2 cache: 8192 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
bogomips: 55892
Speed: 3891 MHz min/max: 800/3900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3892 2: 3890
3: 3791 4: 3876 5: 3854 6: 3820 7: 3759 8: 3772
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf
mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nvidia
v: 440.100 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:13c2
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: nvidia
display ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1080 s-dpi: 92 s-size: 1060x301mm (41.7x11.9")
s-diag: 1102mm (43.4")
Monitor-1: DVI-I-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 92
size: 531x298mm (20.9x11.7") diag: 609mm (24")
Monitor-2: HDMI-0 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 96 size: 510x287mm (20.1x11.3")
diag: 585mm (23")
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 970/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 440.100
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:8c20
Device-2: NVIDIA GM204 High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 10de:0fbb
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.3-2-MANJARO
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I217-V vendor: Gigabyte driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k
port: f040 bus ID: 00:19.0 chip ID: 8086:153b
IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR93xx Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k
v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 06:00.0 chip ID: 168c:0030
IF: wlp6s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.18 TiB used: 436.32 GiB (19.6%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WDS250G2B0A-00SM50
size: 232.89 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
serial: <filter> rev: 00WD scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB
block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
rev: 2B6Q scheme: GPT
SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Partition:
ID-1: / raw size: 111.89 GiB size: 109.14 GiB (97.54%)
used: 65.79 GiB (60.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb2
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.80 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/sdb3
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 26.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 27 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 49%
Info:
Processes: 258 Uptime: 23m Memory: 31.32 GiB used: 2.17 GiB (6.9%)
Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 alt: 9 Packages: pacman: 1430
lib: 356 flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18 running in: konsole inxi: 3.1.05
Running pacmd list-sinks got me this, despite having Duplex running.
1 sink(s) available.
* index: 19
name: <alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo>
driver: <module-alsa-card.c>
flags: HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY DYNAMIC_LATENCY
state: SUSPENDED
suspend cause: IDLE
priority: 9039
volume: front-left: 58982 / 90% / -2,75 dB, front-right: 58982 / 90% / -2,75 dB
balance 0,00
base volume: 65536 / 100% / 0,00 dB
volume steps: 65537
muted: no
current latency: 0,00 ms
max request: 0 KiB
max rewind: 0 KiB
monitor source: 22
sample spec: s16le 2ch 48000Hz
channel map: front-left,front-right
Stereo
used by: 0
linked by: 0
configured latency: 0,00 ms; range is 0,50 .. 1837,50 ms
card: 1 <alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1b.0>
module: 7
properties:
alsa.resolution_bits = "16"
device.api = "alsa"
device.class = "sound"
alsa.class = "generic"
alsa.subclass = "generic-mix"
alsa.name = "ALC898 Analog"
alsa.id = "ALC898 Analog"
alsa.subdevice = "0"
alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0"
alsa.device = "0"
alsa.card = "0"
alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel PCH"
alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel PCH at 0xf3330000 irq 34"
alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel"
device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1b.0"
sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0"
device.bus = "pci"
device.vendor.id = "8086"
device.vendor.name = "Intel Corporation"
device.product.id = "8c20"
device.product.name = "8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio Controller"
device.form_factor = "internal"
device.string = "front:0"
device.buffering.buffer_size = "352800"
device.buffering.fragment_size = "176400"
device.access_mode = "mmap+timer"
device.profile.name = "analog-stereo"
device.profile.description = "Analog Stereo"
device.description = "Built-in Audio Analog Stereo"
alsa.mixer_name = "Realtek ALC898"
alsa.components = "HDA:10ec0899,1458a002,00100003"
module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci"
ports:
analog-output-lineout: Line Out (priority 9000, latency offset 0 usec, available: yes)
properties:
analog-output-headphones: Headphones (priority 9900, latency offset 0 usec, available: unknown)
properties:
device.icon_name = "audio-headphones"
active port: <analog-output-headphones>
And at last, trying to run this sh from another post
while :
do
pacmd list-sinks | grep -E "name:|index:" | sed 's/<//g;s/>//g;s/_/ /g;s/alsa output.//g'
read CHOICE
pacmd set-default-sink $CHOICE
clear
echo "Your Audio Output has been set to $CHOICE"
echo "Press ctrl+C to exit."
echo
done
And got this:
No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
I’m not sure if KDE runs pulseaudio, maybe this is OK.
Sorry I’m new to this distros.
What’s the output of:
pulseaudio --check
Hello @Fabby, it returns nothing, tested it right after boot and after going to fix it via audio settings (selecting only input then reselecting duplex or stereo) I think it’s the same than unplugging and plugging the jack. Via Alsamixer, after selecting the “card” (it’s the onboard jack) I can see all the channels.
EDIT: trying other related issues if I execute pulseaudio -k seems to solve the problem. It’s a patch, not a solution.
huh? killing pulseaudio solves the problem? It must be set to restart automatically then.
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What’s the output of:
ps aux | grep pulse -
would restarting pulseaudio at login be a solution for you?
Hello.
From what I read in other post (sorry I can’t paste links for now) killing pulse audio restart ir automatically, that is why is working.
Now I’m in an odd situation because yesterday I added the command to the startup section in KDE and today I started the system to grab the output and I got this:
myuser 1490 0.2 0.0 762032 13092 ? S<sl 08:33 0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no
myuser 1510 0.0 0.0 238872 9352 ? Sl 08:33 0:00 /usr/lib/pulse/gsettings-helper
myuser 2727 0.0 0.0 8852 2272 pts/2 S+ 08:35 0:00 grep --colour=auto pulse
Then I proceded to disable the auto start to take a second output without being executed to check differences and got this
myuser 1466 0.7 0.0 499888 13120 ? S<sl 08:37 0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no
myuser 1488 0.0 0.0 238872 9580 ? Sl 08:37 0:00 /usr/lib/pulse/gsettings-helper
myuser 2262 0.0 0.0 8852 2400 pts/1 S+ 08:37 0:00 grep --colour=auto pulse
The really odd part is now it’s working without the need to add the kill in the autostart… Before applying that patch I installed pavucontrol and pavucontrol-qt but they didn’t solve the problem, I don’t think they are solving it now either.
pulseaudio should/must be daemonize? The important part is now audio is properly.
Now I can start solving weird issues like randomly not having middle click button in a wireless mouse.
Thanks a lot for your help, I’m learning a lot.
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