Hello
So i’ve switched from windows to manjaro and installation went smoothly.
But i have this minor issue:
My sound only plays from the left speaker… i’ve tried changing volumes in alsamixer but no avail… it’s still playing mono sound.
system info:
OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64
Kernel: 5.15.41-1-MANJARO
Uptime: 1 hour, 45 mins
Packages: 1227 (pacman)
Shell: bash 5.1.16
Resolution: 2560x1440
DE: Plasma 5.24.5
WM: KWin
Theme: [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3]
Icons: [Plasma], breeze [GTK2/3]
Terminal: konsole
CPU: Intel i7-8700K (12) @ 4.700GHz
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 XT
Memory: 4609MiB / 15925MiB
speakers: edifier e25HD
i hope you friendly wizards can help this learning padawan a bit 
Does it play actual mono sound but from the left speaker or do you just say that and it’s playing only the left channel?
Do you have sof-firmware installed?
Hi
I do have sof-firmware installed or at least thats what pacman tells me
Well if my balance is full right you can hear the sound very faintly with a high pitched tone (like tinitus)
provide formated output - click this icon in editor: </>
inxi -Fazy
System:
Kernel: 5.15.41-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
root=UUID=1f4895de-d9d2-4998-8ef1-7578125a973c rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.24.5 tk: Qt v: 5.15.4 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: ROG MAXIMUS X HERO v: Rev 1.xx
serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1003
date: 12/21/2017
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i7-8700K bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Coffee Lake
family: 6 model-id: 0x9E (158) stepping: 0xA (10) microcode: 0xF0
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB desc: 6x256 KiB
L3: 12 MiB desc: 1x12 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4700 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
governor: powersave cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800
8: 800 9: 800 10: 800 11: 800 12: 800 bogomips: 88824
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
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: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: TSX disabled
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Navi 10 [Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 XT]
vendor: Gigabyte driver: amdgpu v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s
lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-1 empty: DP-2,DP-3,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0
chip-ID: 1002:731f class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.3 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting,radeon alternate: fbdev,vesa
gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1440 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 677x381mm (26.65x15.00")
s-diag: 777mm (30.58")
Monitor-1: DP-1 mapped: DisplayPort-0 model: Gigabyte G27Q
serial: <filter> built: 2020 res: 2560x1440 hz: 60 dpi: 109 gamma: 1.2
size: 598x336mm (23.54x13.23") diag: 685mm (27") ratio: 16:9 modes:
max: 2560x1440 min: 720x400
OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT (navi10 LLVM 13.0.1 DRM 3.42
5.15.41-1-MANJARO)
v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.4 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a2f0
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Navi 10 HDMI Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab38
class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.41-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.51 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: ASUSTeK driver: e1000e v: kernel
port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15b8 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp0s31f6 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: NetGear A6100 AC600 DB Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8811AU]
type: USB driver: rtl88XXau bus-ID: 1-8:5 chip-ID: 0846:9052 class-ID: 0000
serial: <filter>
IF: wlp0s20f0u8 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 27.05 GiB (2.9%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital
model: WDS100T3X0C-00SJG0 size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
rev: 111130WD temp: 42.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 931.22 GiB size: 915.53 GiB (98.32%)
used: 27.05 GiB (3.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 29.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 52.0 C
mem: 50.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0
Info:
Processes: 294 Uptime: 26m wakeups: 1 Memory: 15.55 GiB
used: 2.96 GiB (19.0%) Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl Compilers:
gcc: 12.1.0 clang: 13.0.1 Packages: 1264 pacman: 1257 lib: 360 flatpak: 0
snap: 7 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 default: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: konsole
inxi: 3.3.16
~ <\> ✔
zsh: bestand of map bestaat niet: >
~ inxi -Fazy 1 ✘
System:
Kernel: 5.15.41-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
root=UUID=1f4895de-d9d2-4998-8ef1-7578125a973c rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.24.5 tk: Qt v: 5.15.4 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: ROG MAXIMUS X HERO v: Rev 1.xx
serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1003
date: 12/21/2017
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i7-8700K bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Coffee Lake
family: 6 model-id: 0x9E (158) stepping: 0xA (10) microcode: 0xF0
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB desc: 6x256 KiB
L3: 12 MiB desc: 1x12 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4700 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
governor: powersave cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800
8: 800 9: 800 10: 800 11: 800 12: 800 bogomips: 88824
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
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: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: TSX disabled
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Navi 10 [Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 XT]
vendor: Gigabyte driver: amdgpu v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s
lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-1 empty: DP-2,DP-3,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0
chip-ID: 1002:731f class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.3 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting,radeon alternate: fbdev,vesa
gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1440 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 677x381mm (26.65x15.00")
s-diag: 777mm (30.58")
Monitor-1: DP-1 mapped: DisplayPort-0 model: Gigabyte G27Q
serial: <filter> built: 2020 res: 2560x1440 hz: 60 dpi: 109 gamma: 1.2
size: 598x336mm (23.54x13.23") diag: 685mm (27") ratio: 16:9 modes:
max: 2560x1440 min: 720x400
OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT (navi10 LLVM 13.0.1 DRM 3.42
5.15.41-1-MANJARO)
v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.4 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a2f0
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Navi 10 HDMI Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab38
class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.41-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.51 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: ASUSTeK driver: e1000e v: kernel
port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15b8 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp0s31f6 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: NetGear A6100 AC600 DB Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8811AU]
type: USB driver: rtl88XXau bus-ID: 1-8:5 chip-ID: 0846:9052 class-ID: 0000
serial: <filter>
IF: wlp0s20f0u8 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 27.05 GiB (2.9%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital
model: WDS100T3X0C-00SJG0 size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
rev: 111130WD temp: 42.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 931.22 GiB size: 915.53 GiB (98.32%)
used: 27.05 GiB (3.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 35.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 51.0 C
mem: 50.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0
Info:
Processes: 291 Uptime: 29m wakeups: 1 Memory: 15.55 GiB used: 3 GiB (19.3%)
Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.1.0 clang: 13.0.1
Packages: 1264 pacman: 1257 lib: 360 flatpak: 0 snap: 7 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9
default: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.16
try switching kernels, install the 5.17 and the 5.10, reboot and select the 5.17 in grub menu and test with it, do the same with the 5.10
Did you deliberately install pulseaudio and pipewire?
Try only one of them: pamac install manjaro-pipewire
(It will uninstall a few packages and might remove too much. Please check carefully which packages will be removed, if in doubt, post them here first before confirming.)
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No i didn’t install pipewire and i can’t remove it either…
the only deliberate thing i installed was alsamixer
Ok thank you all for helping me much appreciated!
I somehow solved the problem…
i listened with speakers on bluetooth and it sounded normal… then i switched back to listening on manjaro again and pooof it worked 
so solved