so you had audio without luks?
no freezes with luks?
install pipewire + wireplumber again
Yes, yes and already did that. 
And I looked at the journal. The multiple errors from sdc to sde were all external disks. I don’t think they were part of the problem. Or did you notice something else?
I take it back. The sound took some minutes but it’s there now
And I take that back. KDE says there is sound, but in the settings there is not. Also it freezes.
Ill try without LUKS again. I fear I tested to little
thats interesting that you have audio issues with luks …
did you remove also the pulseaudio-alsa leftover?
run system update, reboot and test again for freezes
if you still have audio problems after system update, install the 5.19.1-3 kernel from system settings, reboot, boot with it and see if that helped audio
i meant a lot of these logs:
Sep 01 16:09:16 man-jon-desk root[2574]: 30utility: debug: /dev/sde2 is a FAT partition (mounted by GRUB)
Sep 01 16:09:16 man-jon-desk root[2574]: 50mounted-tests.orig: debug: running subtest /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/40lsb
Sep 01 16:09:16 man-jon-desk root[2574]: 50mounted-tests.orig: debug: running subtest /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/70hurd
Sep 01 16:09:16 man-jon-desk root[2574]: 50mounted-tests.orig: debug: running subtest /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/80minix
Sep 01 16:09:16 man-jon-desk root[2574]: 50mounted-tests.orig: debug: running subtest /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/83haiku
Sep 01 16:09:16 man-jon-desk root[2574]: 83haiku: debug: /dev/sde2 is not a BeFS partition: exiting
Sep 01 16:09:16 man-jon-desk root[2574]: 50mounted-tests.orig: debug: running subtest /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/90linux-distro
Sep 01 16:09:16 man-jon-desk root[2574]: 50mounted-tests.orig: debug: running subtest /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/90linux-distro.orig
Sep 01 16:09:16 man-jon-desk root[2574]: 50mounted-tests.orig: debug: running subtest /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/90solaris
Sep 01 16:09:16 man-jon-desk root[2574]: 50mounted-tests.orig: debug: running subtest /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/efi
Sep 01 16:09:16 man-jon-desk root[2574]: os-prober: debug: btrfs volume uuid=428dcc39-14a9-4e2c-ba7b-e8482d468f93 partition=/dev/mapper/luks-7cecd1d3-bc54-4e89-92ad-a80f4b151998
Sep 01 16:09:16 man-jon-desk root[2574]: os-prober: debug: running /usr/lib/os-probes/50mounted-tests on btrfs /dev/mapper/luks-7cecd1d3-bc54-4e89-92ad-a80f4b151998
Sep 01 16:09:16 man-jon-desk root[2574]: 50mounted-tests: debug: begin btrfs processing for 428dcc39-14a9-4e2c-ba7b-e8482d468f93
Sep 01 16:09:16 man-jon-desk root[2574]: 50mounted-tests: debug: btrfs volume 428dcc39-14a9-4e2c-ba7b-e8482d468f93 mounted
Yes I did and that and that.
Alright I will try the new kernel now
THe kernel changed nothing. Perhaps the sound was recognized more quickly in KDE but it is still not in the settings and I cannot hear anything
sa wait if its appers again after few minutes …
No when I say appear I mean appear in the bottom bar of Plasma. They never just appered within KDEs settings
so the audio appears in the system tray, but in system settings/audio it doesnt?
I apologize it just appeared in the system settings, I just only ever noticed it appear in the tray.(yes tray, that’s how it’s called)
Unfortunately that does not equate to sound output. Only that it says in both tray and settings that it can output
i see so you dont have any audio?
but you mentioned that you had the same issue in the live usb session of mint and gnome
post again output from:
pacman -Qs 'pulse|pipewire'
pacman
local/gst-plugin-pipewire 1:0.3.56-1
Multimedia graph framework - pipewire plugin
local/lib32-libcanberra 1:0.30+r2+gc0620e4-1
A small and lightweight implementation of the XDG Sound Theme Specification (32-bit)
local/lib32-libpulse 16.1-1
A featureful, general-purpose sound server (32-bit client libraries)
local/libcanberra 1:0.30+r2+gc0620e4-1
A small and lightweight implementation of the XDG Sound Theme Specification
local/libpulse 16.1-1
A featureful, general-purpose sound server (client library)
local/manjaro-pipewire 20220217-2
Manjaro meta package for complete PipeWire support.
local/pipewire 1:0.3.56-1
Low-latency audio/video router and processor
local/pipewire-alsa 1:0.3.56-1.0
Low-latency audio/video router and processor - ALSA configuration
local/pipewire-jack 1:0.3.56-1.0
Low-latency audio/video router and processor - JACK support
local/pipewire-pulse 1:0.3.56-1.0
Low-latency audio/video router and processor - PulseAudio replacement
local/pipewire-v4l2 1:0.3.56-1
Low-latency audio/video router and processor - V4L2 interceptor
local/pipewire-zeroconf 1:0.3.56-1
Low-latency audio/video router and processor - Zeroconf support
local/plasma-pa 5.24.6-1 (plasma)
Plasma applet for audio volume management using PulseAudio
local/wireplumber 0.4.11-4
Session / policy manager implementation for PipeWire
local/wireplumber-docs 0.4.11-4
Session / policy manager implementation for PipeWire - documentation
try removing this:
pamac remove pipewire-v4l2 wireplumber-docs
you really dont need the documentation
now create this file:
kate /etc/modprobe.d/audio.conf
and put there these lines:
options snd_hda_intel power_save=0
options snd_hda_intel power_save_controller=N
save it and run:
sudo mkinitcpio -P
reboot and see if it helped
You heaven-sent!!! That worked!!! 
Leaves me to hope, that the freezes don’t return, but, for the record, I am very very happy right now!
since you up to date and there is no issue, so it was not related to kernel/nvidia but very likely to btrfs, which is still not stable enough …
now go to system settings/compositor and change the:
scale method to smooth
latency to force smoothest animations, click apply;
disable the indexer if you didnt do it yet;
then open this file:
kate /etc/environment
and add there this line:
QT_LOGGING_RULES='*=false'
save it - it will disable the kwin/qt logs
now open this file:
kate /etc/systemd/journald.conf
and edit this line:
#SystemMaxUse=
to look like this:
SystemMaxUse=25M
the ‘#’ at the beginning is removed
this will limit the journal/log size
save the file and restart journal:
systemctl restart systemd-journald
It is done!
so thats it, enjoy your non freezing system
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Thank you!!!
How do you know to change those settings with the animations?
They seem counterintuitive, and I would have thought they should be primed for low latency?