From version 5.0.0 onward PulseEffects needs PipeWire. Pulseaudio users need to instal one of the 4.x releases or building a package directly from our legacy Pulseaudio branch GitHub - wwmm/pulseeffects at pulseaudio-legacy. Arch Linux users can also use the PKGBUILD on the same branch. This branch will receive updates for critical bugs as time goes by. So if PipeWire is not for you yet it is fine to use the legacy branch.
So I’ve decided to use the legacy branch for now. It’s available from AUR and can be installed via pamac-manager, etc. pulseeffects-legacy-git 4.8.4r10.gc63827fc-1 & gst-plugins-pulseeffects-legacy-git 4.8.4r10.gc63827fc-1
Since the latest updates i’m having temperature problems. It seems my cpu now run at maximum frequency all the time, like if it’s in a high performance governor. I have manjaro testing branch running in 2 systems (intel desktop i7 9700k and a intel laptop i7-1065G7) and both are having the same issue.
I believe I’ve found a minor bug in Telegram(I hope this is the right place to post it here, if not I kindly ask you to move it to the right place or tell me where I should post it):
The package Telegram-desktop with gnome(dark-mode) on Testing: Version: 2.5.6.r8.gefde011f1-1
The Icon on the top right bar is just a white square and every right click affiliated with telegram opens the correct window, but it has a ugly white boarder.
analisando o CPU 0:
driver: intel_cpufreq
CPUs que rodam na mesma frequência de hardware: 0
CPUs que precisam ter suas frequências coordenadas por software: 0
maior latência de transição: 20.0 us
limites do hardware: 800 MHz - 5.00 GHz
reguladores do cpufreq disponíveis: conservative ondemand userspace powersave performance schedutil
política de frequência atual deve estar entre 800 MHz e 5.00 GHz.
O regulador “ondemand” deve decidir qual velocidade usar
dentro desse limite.
current CPU frequency: Unable to call hardware
current CPU frequency: 5.00 GHz (asserted by call to kernel)
boost state support:
Supported: yes
Active: yes
I’l try to force the intel_pstate when i got home. But yesterday i discovered that the problem i was having is related to libusb 1.0.24 and xow (xbox wireless dongle). Since my pc is almost dedicated to gaming i got xow running all the time, when the libusb 1.0.24 land my problems started and it was dificult to track.
I had the same problem, but I decided to switch to pipewire by installing package manjaro-pipewire. After that PulseEffects worked, but I had problem with VLC. I had to switch audio output from “Auto” to “Alsa audio output” / “PipeWire Sound Server”.
I have issues with AUR in Pamac, it fails to find the packages to install when I try to build AUR packages (example zenmonitor).
I have seen exact same issue yesterday on my sister’s computer while trying to update her Google Chrome browser (Stable branch). Pamac seems to have issues with AUR.
Yes, PulseEffects 5 requires pipewire and works with it.
However I quite often change audio outputs internal/headphones/bluetooth/hdmi and I ran into different sorts of problems. Sometimes output is not recognized, sometimes multiple sinks are created, sometimes I can’t control volume level, etc. So I removed PulseEffects 5 and installed manjaro-pulse and pulseeffects-legacy-git from AUR. Now some PulseEffects plugins don’t work (for example Crystalizer), but I can freely switch between outputs.
Edit: There is an update to pulseeffects-legacy-git which fixes plugins, but at the moment it can’t be installed on Manjaro testing because Manjaro doesn’t have required package rnnoise in testing repo.