No sound on Laptop with Intel Tiger Lake HD Audio / Audio hardware not detected

[darkcity]

oh dear!

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Manjaro KDE + pipewire - How to make things work again?

Pipewire is a new multimedia framework that is replacing pulseaudio. However, we have been having problems using pipewire with Manjaro KDE… I - The standard KDE audio volume control is no longer available; II - We no longer have the audio configuration options (hardware) in the “System Settings”; III - When we add a new audio device (a bluetooth headset, for example) it does not start to be used automatically by the OS; IV - The keyboard features/keys for audio control have stopped working. …