[Stable Update] 2025-03-18 - Kernel, Systemd, Plasma 6.3.3, KDE Gear 24.12.3

[nikgnomic]

@mkb

It seems like Pipewire and PulseAudio are both ‘active’ now which (I’m guessing) might be causing the problem with video playback in the browser

@LordTermor

Inxi shows that both PA and PW are running which is a normal situation for PA-machines with GNOME or KDE as those require PW for working with WebRTC and video.

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@kwacorn

when I use KDE NeworkManager to try to connect to WiFi a tab opens in the Brave browser with the URL https://ping.manjaro.org/check_network_status.txt, resulting in a 404 not found error.

@dmt

Just disable it, it’s useless anyway. If it tells you that you have no internet you still have to check, as the server may be down.

sudo touch /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/20-connectivity.conf

[Kobold]

Right after the update im experiencing ~3 seconds game freezing, when i play a native Linux (non-steam) game

I had no issue before this update. I don’t have tested Proton games yet.

[luzpaz]

With this update I’ve run into the a recent issue that I encountered a few updates ago.

Screens on laptop and external hdmi aren't registering correctly post after-02-16 update

I posted in the announcement thread[1] that I have now encountered a situation where my display configs are messed up. I have a Dell XPS laptop running latest manjaro $inxi -Gxx Graphics: Device-1: Intel Iris Graphics 540 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9 ports: active: DP-1,eDP-1 empty: DP-2,HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:1926 Device-2: Realtek Integrated_Webcam_HD driver: uvcvideo …

The problem running the the reset script (mentioned in the above thread) is not resolving the issue.

I’m planning to try once again after posting this.

[mkb]

I’ve followed your advice and installed manjaro-pipewire with

sudo pacman -Syu manjaro-pipewire

but I had to remove pulseaudio-bluetooth at first with

sudo pacman -Rdd pulseaudio-bluetooth

just like @Yochanan recommended in his post above.

inxi -Axx now reports:

Audio:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 08:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab28
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio
    vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s
    lanes: 16 bus-ID: 0a:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487
  API: ALSA v: k6.6.83-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
    type: oss-emulator
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.4.1 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin

I’m wondering whether it would be appropriate to mention the sound problems with Pipewire/Pulseaudio in the ‘Known issues and solutions’ wiki post on top since there seem to be a lot of people affected by it based on the replies in this announcement.

[nikgnomic]

@philm

Pipewire 1.4.1

• if you have no sound at all, you may want to check if you use pulseaudio. See known issues

@philm

This is a wiki post; please edit as necessary.

 

[mkb]

I’ve noticed @philm mentioning it in the first post before. I was just talking about the second post (wiki post?) because that’s where I usually start looking if I would potentially run into any problems and for possible solutions.

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Note: Do not forget to review your .pacnew files:

• https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/System_Maintenance/en#Pacnew_and_Pacsave_files
• Check and manage pacnew files
• Update - error: failed retrieving file ‘community.db’ from

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[limprimble]

This thread may be useful:

AMD idle speed higher with kernel 6.13 than with 6.12

After the Feb 4 testing branch update, which went just fine across the board, I also tried out the 6.13.1-2 kernel update. On my antique Intel laptop there are no issues. On both my AMD machines, (Zen3 desktop and Zen4 laptop), both using tuned 2.25.1-1 (balanced power profile) for power management, the CPU idle speed jumps under 6.13 as compared to 6.12 with no other changes–simply making the appropriate choice in the grub menu. On the desktop, idle speed jumps from 550 MHz to 1737 MHz. The…

TLDR:

@brucew

I have to accept the decisions leading to the kernel patch. Those folks are much smarter than I am and I can’t change their decisions anyway. The higher clock at idle remains.

[luzpaz]

Update: I’ve resolved this using the previous solution mentioned in the thread

Applications / Manjaro Plasma Reset · GitLab

The only thing that it took 1 logout and 2 reboots to have an impact.

[Gkirmathal]

Seen and replied to that thread a few weeks ago. Shared the Arch forum post which was mentioned.
It had no fix for users using amd-pstate driver with amd-pstate=passive flag.

Only solution is to stick to 6.12.x for now.