I’ve been having this issue since maybe a couple of months (can’t remember exactly since when and couldn’t point out a specific system upgrade) in which my laptop starts with headphones (connected to 3.5mm jack) and the integrated laptop mic not working, however they both start working after muting them and unmuting them from the volume control widget at the top panel.
A couple of weeks ago i disabled jamesDSP running on startup since a long time ago the jamesDSP sink gave me problems, this didn’t help however.
Today i decided i’ve had enough and have been troubleshooting, since in my usual setup i have the laptop already plugged to an external monitor via hdmi and to the headphones i decided to test booting with them connected and disconnected to see if the cause has to do with that, in all cases the headphones and mic need muting/unmuting to work however then integrated speakers work right off the bat.
I followed this pipewire gitlab issue and my experiences where pretty much identical to the OP Ghost User, so much so that doing what he said and using alsactl store fixed it.
So problem solved, so why am i posting then? well first of all so that if anyone else experiences this they can find it here on the garuda forums but also there’s a new small issue the leaves me wondering if this solution was the best or not.
previously i experienced a bit of kde plasma weirdness since whenever i muted my mic an icon would pop up saying the mic was on and then when i unmuted it the pop up said it was now muted even though i could confirm on the audio panel and voice calls that it was the exact opposite, well ever since the fix i no longer get the pop ups, when changing audio setting from the widget i get pop ups for device changes and volume level changes but no longer get pop ups for muting/unmuting devices, however i can still get the audio muted pop up when muting speakers/headphones with the keyboard action key.
garuda-inxi:
System:
Kernel: 6.10.3-zen1-2-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1 clocksource: tsc
avail: acpi_pm parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
root=UUID=1ff06791-3783-4094-b0dd-898c4b519967 rw rootflags=subvol=@ quiet quiet
rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0
resume=UUID=f1f58c16-f4e6-4587-b7db-88c32ef6457f loglevel=3 ibt=off
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.1.4 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.4.0 wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1
dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Micro-Star product: Katana GF66 11SC v: REV:1.0 serial: <superuser required>
Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Micro-Star model: MS-1582 v: REV:1.0 serial: <superuser required> part-nu: 1582.3
uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: E1582IMS.30A date: 07/22/2021
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 36.9 Wh (100.0%) condition: 36.9/52.0 Wh (71.0%) volts: 12.4 min: 11.4
model: MSI BIF0_9 type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: full
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard serial: <filter>
charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: discharging
CPU:
Info: model: 11th Gen Intel Core i5-11400H bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Tiger Lake gen: core 11
level: v4 note: check built: 2020 process: Intel 10nm family: 6 model-id: 0x8D (141) stepping: 1
microcode: 0x50
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache: L1: 480 KiB
desc: d-6x48 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 7.5 MiB desc: 6x1.2 MiB L3: 12 MiB desc: 1x12 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1921 high: 4468 min/max: 800/4500 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
governor: performance cores: 1: 4306 2: 2718 3: 801 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 4468 8: 803 9: 800
10: 1161 11: 3798 12: 1807 bogomips: 64512
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: i915 v: kernel
alternate: xe arch: Gen-12.1 process: Intel 10nm built: 2020-21 ports: active: HDMI-A-1,eDP-1
empty: none bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9a68 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: nvidia
v: 555.58.02 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 550.xx+ status: current (as of 2024-06;
EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Turing code: TUxxx process: TSMC 12nm FF built: 2018-2022 pcie: gen: 1
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:1f9d class-ID: 0302
Device-3: Bison HD Webcam driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1
mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 3-10:3 chip-ID: 5986:211b class-ID: 0e02
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.13 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.2 compositor: kwin_wayland
driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: nouveau alternate: fbdev,intel,nv,vesa dri: iris
gpu: i915,nvidia d-rect: 3286x1848 display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 pos: bottom-l res: 1366x768 size: N/A modes: N/A
Monitor-2: eDP-1 pos: top-right res: 1920x1080 size: N/A modes: N/A
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 1
drv: iris device: 3 drv: swrast gbm: drv: iris surfaceless: drv: nvidia wayland: drv: iris x11:
drv: iris inactive: device-2
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.1.5-arch1.1 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (TGL GT1) device-ID: 8086:9a68
memory: 3.64 GiB unified: yes display-ID: :1.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.279 layers: 10 device: 0 type: integrated-gpu name: Intel UHD Graphics (TGL
GT1) driver: mesa intel v: 24.1.5-arch1.1 device-ID: 8086:9a68 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
device: 1 type: discrete-gpu name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 driver: nvidia v: 555.58.02
device-ID: 10de:1f9d surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland device: 2 type: cpu name: llvmpipe (LLVM
18.1.8 256 bits) driver: mesa llvmpipe v: 24.1.5-arch1.1 (LLVM 18.1.8) device-ID: 10005:0000
surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
Audio:
Device-1: I
ntel Tiger Lake-H HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
alternate: snd_hda_intel, snd_soc_avs, snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:43c8
class-ID: 0401
API: ALSA v: k6.10.3-zen1-2-zen status: kernel-api with: aoss type: oss-emulator
tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.2 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.3
chip-ID: 8086:43f0 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: docker0 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-2: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter>
Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1
mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 3-14:4 chip-ID: 8087:0026 class-ID: e001
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block:
hardware: no software: no address: <filter> bt-v: 5.2 lmp-v: 11 status: discoverable: no
pairing: no
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 310.65 GiB (65.1%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Kingston model: OM8PCP3512F-AI1 size: 476.94 GiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
fw-rev: ECFK52.8 temp: 32.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 467.84 GiB size: 467.84 GiB (100.00%) used: 310.65 GiB (66.4%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%) used: 584 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
ID-3: /home raw-size: 467.84 GiB size: 467.84 GiB (100.00%) used: 310.65 GiB (66.4%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 467.84 GiB size: 467.84 GiB (100.00%) used: 310.65 GiB (66.4%)
fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 467.84 GiB size: 467.84 GiB (100.00%) used: 310.65 GiB (66.4%)
fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 7.46 GiB used: 446.8 MiB (5.8%) priority: 100 comp: zstd
avail: lzo,lzo-rle,lz4,lz4hc,842 max-streams: 12 dev: /dev/zram0
ID-2: swap-2 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
maj-min: 259:3
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 44.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 8 GiB note: est. available: 7.46 GiB used: 4.02 GiB (53.8%)
Processes: 320 Power: uptime: 28m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep avail: s2idle
wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot, suspend, test_resume image: 2.95 GiB
services: org_kde_powerdevil,upowerd Init: systemd v: 256 default: graphical tool: systemctl
Packages: 2501 pm: pacman pkgs: 2476 libs: 604 tools: paru pm: flatpak pkgs: 25 Compilers:
clang: 18.1.8 gcc: 14.2.1 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.32-release inxi: 3.3.35
Garuda (2.6.26-1):
System install date: 2022-08-03
Last full system update: 2024-08-10
Is partially upgraded: No
Relevant software: snapper NetworkManager mkinitcpio nvidia-dkms
Windows dual boot: No/Undetected
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