I have a laptop with an Intel Comet Lake chipset, and until recently, I was having the issue that the built-in speakers remained silent until I plugged in a headphone or a USB audio interface, at which point the headphone, the USB audio and the built-in speakers would work normally, also if I unplug…

Ooookay, so, of course, after pulling my hair out for a day and asking, I stumble over the fix myself: sudo dmesg | grep audio finds these lines, among others: [ 6.001549] sof-audio-pci-intel-cnl 0000:00:1f.3: hda codecs found, mask 5 [ 6.001555] sof-audio-pci-intel-cnl 0000:00:1f.3: using H…

you can try toreverse it and switch back to pulseaudio as here: [image] Switch from pipewire to pulseaudio Audio USB Headset not working since attempt at Pipewire If metapackage manjaro-pulse is working as expected it should install 3 packages: pulseaudio t…

Thanks for the tip! I switched back to Pulse, but I find that Pipewire gives me fewer confusing profile choices*, so that’s what I’m sticking with for now. Happy to report that switching works fairly easily, by installing either manjaro-pulseaudio or manjaro-pipewire, although the first time switc…

[image] Mr_Teatime: play Hifi quality music (HDMI1, HDMI2, HDMI3, Headset, Mic1, Speaker) please pay attention that hdmi has some traps with the cables. you have to make sure that the used hdmi-cable is wired to use special functions as “special”-hifi etc.. in a lot of cases a “cheap” cable c…

[image] Mr_Teatime: The mystery that remains is of course how on earth that firmware went missing in the first place because I’m pretty sure I did not remove it explicitly, and I also would have expected it to be a dependency of something else on this system. sof-firmware does not depend on o…

[image] nikgnomic: sof-firmware does not depend on or require any other packages so it is unlikely to have been removed during an update pacman log would confirm if package was removed: grep 'sof-firmware' /var/log/pacman.log Thanks! Digging a little, I find it in the logs indeed, as being…

[image] nikgnomic: Hif-Fi card profiles in pulseaudio or pipewire-pulse are provided by ALSA Use Case Manager alsa-ucm-conf This might have to go into a different thread since it’s deviating from the original question, but I’m quite interested in figuring this out. So … in which context am I…

Sound Open Firmware drivers are only needed to support built-in digital microphones on Intel laptops If the built-in microphones are not needed, this command will load standard snd_hda_intel audio driver instead of sof-firmware driver sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-hda-intel.conf <<< "options snd_i…

Sound device not recognized

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Olli 21 November 2025 19:40 3

you can try toreverse it and switch back to pulseaudio as here:

otherwise this link might be helpful if you wanna check pipewire: