Manjaro KDE Auto Mutes on Boot

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#1

Every time I boot or reboot into KDE, the auto is muted. If I unmute then next time it will mute. I have the startup sound enabled and it plays for a second and then mutes. The taskbar shows as muted and both the mute key and gui work to mute and unmute.

Manjaro KDE cannot find my soundcard and ethernet
KDE Auto Mutes after Boot
#2

Hi there,
I have the same issue, I think. While I dont use startup noises or anything … my system boots muted. It works just fine to hit a volume key to unmute it. I had assumed it was hardware specific and didnt care enough to investigate. But you may be correct in tying it to KDE, as thats also what I use.

#3

Same issue here on KDE, It is muted on startup

#4

Just to add to reports : I am using a simple ALSA+PulseAudio setup.
(No jack, pipewire, effects services, etc)

#5

Add a comment: My laptop auto muted and cannot find the sound device:

Cannot find input or output devices

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(base) [firestar@ThinkPad ~]$ inxi -vA
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-1-MANJARO running: yes
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
           Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.39 running: yes
#6

I can no longer reproduce.
This may be due to KDE updates…

I am on Unstable, so folks on Stable may be on the lookout :telescope:

#7

Please post system information

inxi -Fazy

and ALSA information

sudo alsa-info.sh --upload

@gilcon - you should start a new topic and post similar data for your system

@Firestar
Audio data shows 2 incompatible sound servers running
See this post for how to either disable PipeWire services or replace PulseAudio

#8

I am using 5.15 but 5.15/5.14 have this same problem.

Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio vendor: Lenovo
  driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
  alternate: snd_hda_intel,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
  chip-ID: 8086:a0c8 class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.39 running: no

Although I did nothing instead of inxi -Fazy, now Pipewire isn’t running

after I do systemctl --user disable --now pipewire.socket pipewire.service && systemctl --user mask pipewire.socket, it still displays like above

going to unstable branch does not work either

I STILL HAVE NO SOUND DEVICE

#9

No sound device has nothing to do with Pipewire services imho. Try suspend and wake your laptop.

#10

I reinstalled Manjaro and it is now fixed.

#11