Hello,
I am having an issue where my headphones are not detected when plugged into the 3.5mm jack on Manjaro. They work perfectly on Windows, so I know the hardware is functional. I’m using Easyeffects.
System:
Kernel: 6.6.119-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.2.1
clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.6-x86_64
root=UUID=16927a7c-d50e-4eb3-8f2c-49a49f84cd75 rw quiet splash acpi=force
apm=power_off
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.5.4 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.21.0
wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Micro-Star product: Pulse GL66 12UGKV v: REV:1.0
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Micro-Star model: MS-1583 v: REV:1.0 serial: <superuser required>
part-nu: 1583.1 uuid: <superuser required> Firmware: UEFI vendor: American
Megatrends LLC. v: E1583IMS.106 date: 01/18/2022
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 34.6 Wh (92.5%) condition: 37.4/52 Wh (71.9%) volts: 12.1
min: 11.4 model: MSI BIF0_9 type: Li-ion serial: N/A charging:
status: not charging cycles: N/A
CPU:
Info: model: 12th Gen Intel Core i7-12700H bits: 64 type: MST AMCP
arch: Alder Lake gen: core 12 level: v3 note: check built: 2021+
process: Intel 7 (10nm ESF) family: 6 model-id: 0x9A (154) stepping: 3
microcode: 0x43A
Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 8 cores: 14 threads: 20 mt: 6 tpc: 2
st: 8 smt: enabled cache: L1: 1.2 MiB desc: d-8x32 KiB, 6x48 KiB; i-6x32
KiB, 8x64 KiB L2: 11.5 MiB desc: 6x1.2 MiB, 2x2 MiB L3: 24 MiB
desc: 1x24 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1261 min/max: 400/4600:4700:3500 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 1261 2: 1261 3: 1261
4: 1261 5: 1261 6: 1261 7: 1261 8: 1261 9: 1261 10: 1261 11: 1261 12: 1261
13: 1261 14: 1261 15: 1261 16: 1261 17: 1261 18: 1261 19: 1261 20: 1261
bogomips: 107560
Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: indirect_target_selection 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: reg_file_data_sampling mitigation: Clear Register File
Type: retbleed status: Not affected
Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
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: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS; IBPB: conditional;
PBRSB-eIBRS: SW sequence; BHI: BHI_DIS_S
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsa status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Type: vmscape mitigation: IBPB before exit to userspace
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-P GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Xe process: Intel 10nm built: 2021-22+ ports:
active: eDP-1 empty: none bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:46a6 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GA104M [GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile / Max-Q]
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: nvidia v: 590.48.01
alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 550-580.xx+ status: current (as of
2025-11; EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Ampere code: GAxxx process: TSMC n7 (7nm)
built: 2020-2023 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 link-max: gen: 4
speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: HDMI-A-1 empty: none
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:249d class-ID: 0300
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.21 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.9
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia dri: iris
gpu: i915,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch d-rect: 3840x1080 display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 pos: right model: 24E6C serial: <filter> built: 2023
res: mode: 1920x1080 hz: 120 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 93 gamma: 1.2
size: 522x294mm (20.55x11.57") diag: 599mm (23.6") ratio: 16:9 modes:
max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
Monitor-2: eDP-1 pos: primary,left model: AU Optronics 0xaf90 built: 2020
res: mode: 1920x1080 hz: 144 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2
size: 344x193mm (13.54x7.6") diag: 394mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9
modes: 1920x1080
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0
drv: nvidia device: 2 drv: iris device: 3 drv: swrast gbm: drv: nvidia
surfaceless: drv: nvidia wayland: drv: iris x11: drv: iris
inactive: device-1
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.3.3-arch1.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel Iris Xe Graphics (ADL GT2)
device-ID: 8086:46a6 memory: 14.97 GiB unified: yes display-ID: :1.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.335 layers: 8 device: 0 type: integrated-gpu name: Intel
Iris Xe Graphics (ADL GT2) driver: mesa intel v: 25.3.3-arch1.1
device-ID: 8086:46a6 surfaces: N/A device: 1 type: discrete-gpu name: NVIDIA
GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU driver: nvidia v: 590.48.01
device-ID: 10de:249d surfaces: N/A
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi
wl: wayland-info x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake PCH-P High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
alternate: snd_hda_intel,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
chip-ID: 8086:51c8 class-ID: 0401
Device-2: NVIDIA GA104 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 8
link-max: lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228b class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.6.119-1-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: 1.4.9 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-P PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:51f0 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-10:6 chip-ID: 8087:0026
class-ID: e001
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.2
lmp-v: 11 status: discoverable: no pairing: no class-ID: 6c010c
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 942.7 GiB used: 285.09 GiB (30.2%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Micron model: 2450 MTFDKBA512TFK
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: V5MA010 temp: 36.9 C
scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD Game Drive
size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: USB
rev: 2.1 spd: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 tech: N/A serial: <filter>
fw-rev: 3083 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 334.52 GiB size: 328.2 GiB (98.11%)
used: 285.06 GiB (86.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 296 MiB (98.67%)
used: 31.6 MiB (10.7%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 64.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est. available: 15.33 GiB used: 6.09 GiB (39.7%)
Processes: 444 Power: uptime: 27m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: s2idle
avail: deep wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot, suspend,
test_resume image: 6.12 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,
power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 258 default: graphical
tool: systemctl
Packages: 1615 pm: pacman pkgs: 1590 libs: 418 tools: pamac,yay pm: flatpak
pkgs: 25 Compilers: clang: 21.1.6 gcc: 15.2.1 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 default: Bash
v: 5.3.9 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.40
Any help would be appreciated.