I just installed Manjaro KDE (Stable, latest version), connected my airpods via bluetooth and the volume is extremely soft even with 150% in Pulseaudio mixer. I’ve tried running alsamixer and making sure everything is maxed out but to no avail.
100% volume is like 60% in comparison to windows. Is there something i’m missing here>
Can you try to check the sound settings with “alsamixer” on console ?
All 100% on all sound cards.
Can you post some hardware and system info ?
inix -Fza or similar ?
@kaly, keep in mind that in KDE you have 2 separate but interacting volume settings:
- The maximum volume per output device.
- The maximum volume per application.
This volume acts like 100% = max volume of the selected output device.
(You can select different output devices per application)
Eg. if both are set at 50% then your actual volume is .5 * .5 = .25 or 25% of the actual maximum…
i… cant post links apparently? I was going to copy-paste output but I can’t
I’ve set every volume option to max
Try posting the output inside code blocks in your reply, eg. between ``` (on separate lines)
System: Kernel: 5.8.16-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.8-x86_64 root=UUID=4e16dd97-8370-40ec-9e4b-c443b3b9e2ef rw quiet
apparmor=1 security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.19.5 tk: Qt 5.15.1 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine: Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: VivoBook_ASUSLaptop X409DA_M409DA v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: X409DA v: 1.0 serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: X409DA.303 date: 08/28/2019
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 28.4 Wh condition: 28.4/32.0 Wh (89%) volts: 7.6/7.6 model: ASUSTeK ASUS Battery
type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: Not charging cycles: 32
CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: AMD Ryzen 3 3200U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen+
family: 17 (23) model-id: 18 (24) stepping: 1 microcode: 8108109 L2 cache: 1024 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 20769
Speed: 2645 MHz min/max: 1400/2600 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2645 2: 2645 3: 2644 4: 2643
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics: Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Picasso vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 03:00.0
chip ID: 1002:15d8
Device-2: IMC Networks USB2.0 Hub type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus ID: 3-2.2:5 chip ID: 13d3:5a11
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: amdgpu FAILED: ati unloaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,vesa display ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
Monitor-1: eDP res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 158 size: 309x173mm (12.2x6.8") diag: 354mm (13.9")
OpenGL: renderer: AMD RAVEN (DRM 3.38.0 5.8.16-2-MANJARO LLVM 10.0.1) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.1.8 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 03:00.1 chip ID: 1002:15de
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor
driver: snd_rn_pci_acp3x v: kernel alternate: snd_pci_acp3x bus ID: 03:00.5 chip ID: 1022:15e2
Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 03:00.6 chip ID: 1022:15e3
Device-4: Logitech C922 Pro Stream Webcam type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus ID: 1-3:3
chip ID: 046d:085c serial: <filter>
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.16-2-MANJARO
Network: Device-1: Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 8086:24fd
IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 8.73 GiB (1.8%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVLB512HAJQ-00000 size: 476.94 GiB block size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: EXA7301Q scheme: GPT
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 87.89 GiB size: 86.01 GiB (97.86%) used: 8.70 GiB (10.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5
Swap: Alert: No Swap data was found.
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 85.5 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 85 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 3100
Info: Processes: 209 Uptime: 26m Memory: 5.82 GiB used: 2.60 GiB (44.7%) Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers:
gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: pacman: 1187 lib: 319 flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18 running in: konsole
inxi: 3.1.05
Could be the same issue as here
does the provided solution also works for you?
So that is
Edit
/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service
As root (sudo) with your favorite editor and change
ExecStart=/usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd
to
ExecStart=/usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd --noplugin=avrcp
and then run
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl restart bluetooth
If it does not work right away try to unpair your airpods, reboot and pair them again.
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Worked perfectly, thanks!
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I marked the above post as Solution, you can change or remove it, but make sure to remember to mark the Solution next time in your support request threads 
so that it is easily spotted for the next person finding this thread.
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