[SOLVED] Headphones never work [Wired JACK] | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

inland dawn Jul 16, 2025, 11:26 AM

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my headphones always stop working after about 3 days of installing arch,
and they never work again, all other audio devices work, like speakers and bluetooth audio.

Ive tried to reinstall pipewire and its configs and disabled power manager.

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I don't have other earphones to test with

frozen cave Jul 16, 2025, 11:26 AM

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i think there is a package named pipewire-jack

inland dawn Jul 16, 2025, 11:26 AM

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its installed

frozen cave Jul 16, 2025, 11:26 AM

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im out

inland dawn Jul 16, 2025, 11:29 AM

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frozen cave im out

I will love you till you keep this up,
most other people just like to waste time

frozen cave Jul 16, 2025, 11:29 AM

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is speakers jack

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@inland dawn

elfin granite Jul 16, 2025, 11:30 AM

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can you see and/or switch to the wired sink in something like pavucontrol?

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Could be that the device and sink is up and live, but it is not auto-detecting and switching

inland dawn Jul 16, 2025, 11:31 AM

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frozen cave is speakers jack

no, built in to the laptop

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the system acts like nothing is wrong and keeps playing audio through the headphones [there is no actual sound]

elfin granite Jul 16, 2025, 11:32 AM

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elfin granite can you see and/or switch to the wired sink in something like pavucontrol?

for example

inland dawn Jul 16, 2025, 11:33 AM

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there's option in gnome to do that

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pavu fucks with my audio

elfin granite Jul 16, 2025, 11:33 AM

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So with headphones selected as in your screenshot the audio does not come out of the headphones, and the speakers still work?

inland dawn Jul 16, 2025, 11:34 AM

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yeah

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If someone could please report this, Its too hard for me

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its been like this since I started trying linux 3 years ago

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debian based distros would have no sound at all but fedora and arch gave me sound sometimes
for 3 months sometimes

elfin granite Jul 16, 2025, 11:36 AM

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debian distros not having sound is semi-expected as you have to jump through some hoops to get proprietary drivers in it

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Sound drivers are often closed source

inland dawn Jul 16, 2025, 11:36 AM

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elfin granite debian distros not having sound is semi-expected as you have to jump through som...

yeah

elfin granite Jul 16, 2025, 11:36 AM

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I hate to say it but if it is not working across different distros and with different desktop environs (gnome vs kde) then it's starting to smell like hardware to me

inland dawn Jul 16, 2025, 11:37 AM

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obviously not, my headphones work on all devices [android phones] and on windows

elfin granite Jul 16, 2025, 11:37 AM

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Not your headphones, the laptop audio stack

inland dawn Jul 16, 2025, 11:37 AM

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elfin granite Not your headphones, the laptop audio stack

but it works on windows

elfin granite Jul 16, 2025, 11:37 AM

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It'll work in windows because they sell that machine with windows

inland dawn Jul 16, 2025, 11:37 AM

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inland dawn but it works on windows

without hickups

elfin granite Jul 16, 2025, 11:38 AM

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The manufacturers actually have to care with windows

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do you have sof-firmware installed?

inland dawn Jul 16, 2025, 11:38 AM

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yeah thats true

inland dawn Jul 16, 2025, 11:38 AM

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elfin granite do you have `sof-firmware` installed?

if that were not installed I won't be getting sound through my speakers either

elfin granite Jul 16, 2025, 11:38 AM

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Yeah, I'm clutching at straws

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I've had machines with similar symptoms in the past and I ended up giving up and putting it down to shitty audio firmware from the manufacturer.

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I'm curious if anyone else knows a secret trick for it!

inland dawn Jul 16, 2025, 11:40 AM

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inland dawn If someone could please report this, Its too hard for me

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these few problems make me not want to be on linux also I hate my father, I knew I'd have many problems with a laptop and told him to buy a computer but nope

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HDR does'nt work, display color calibration does'nt work either

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BTW if I boot live fedora right now, sound would work through my headphones @elfin granite

elfin granite Jul 16, 2025, 11:44 AM

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You mean it works fine in the iso environ?

inland dawn Jul 16, 2025, 11:45 AM

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I told ya guys it works for a random amount of time

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on fedora or arch on first install

elfin granite Jul 16, 2025, 11:46 AM

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If so, try lspci -k | grep -iA3 audio on each and compare. It will spit out what audio devices, modules and drivers are in use. If they're different in the iso vs install then that might be a clue

inland dawn Jul 16, 2025, 11:46 AM

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and yes I do not do any funky shit on the system after install

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00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation Meteor Lake-P HD Audio Controller (rev 20)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 8c58
Kernel driver in use: sof-audio-pci-intel-mtl
Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel, snd_sof_pci_intel_mtl
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Meteor Lake-P SMBus Controller (rev 20)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 8c58

01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation AD107 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 8c58
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel

I don't have fedora right now

elfin granite Jul 16, 2025, 11:48 AM

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hmmmmmmmmmmm

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I see two audio devices 👀

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I wonder if they're fighting each other. That might explain this

inland dawn Jul 16, 2025, 11:48 AM

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elfin granite I wonder if they're fighting each other. That might explain this

NOPE, not at all

elfin granite Jul 16, 2025, 11:49 AM

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How can you be so sure? :P

inland dawn Jul 16, 2025, 11:49 AM

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nvidia is used when hdmi is connected, to control TV / Monitor audio

elfin granite Jul 16, 2025, 11:49 AM

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That's sensible

inland dawn Jul 16, 2025, 11:50 AM

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I will test on fedora in 2 min

elfin granite Jul 16, 2025, 11:50 AM

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00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller (rev 20)
    Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3838
    Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
    Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel, snd_soc_avs, snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl
``` my lspci for comparison, just as a datapoint

inland dawn Jul 16, 2025, 11:51 AM

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the biggest reason for my shit not working because it is more bleeding edge than arch itself

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lspci -k | grep -iA3 audio

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@elfin granite

elfin granite Jul 16, 2025, 12:20 PM

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Yeah that's frustrating. I was hoping to see something different we could work with

inland dawn Jul 17, 2025, 12:23 PM

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elfin granite Yeah that's frustrating. I was hoping to see something different we could work w...

it started working again lol

elfin granite Jul 17, 2025, 12:29 PM

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Fun! If it craps out again, check dmesg. It might have some logs saying what happened

inland dawn Jul 19, 2025, 8:36 AM

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elfin granite Fun! If it craps out again, check dmesg. It might have some logs saying what hap...

It stopped working again, I think I might know why, I booted windows then I went back to linux now they are not working

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Damn, I fixed it by restarting windows without headphones and saved and exit bios settings without changing any which resets some devices and now it works again. WTF my laptop or windows is so weird

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that means removing windows from my laptop would fix this problem forever LOL

inland dawn Jul 21, 2025, 5:26 AM

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my wired jack headphones stop working on linux if I open windows even once, but they start working on linux when I go to bios settings and change nothing and do save and exit, that might somehow reset the device. can I add a kernel parameter to automate this specifically for jack audio?

somber citrus Jul 21, 2025, 5:37 AM

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maybe you have fast startup enabled on windows, so it leaves your sound card (and the rest of your hardware) in a weird state

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@inland dawn

inland dawn Jul 21, 2025, 5:42 AM

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somber citrus maybe you have fast startup enabled on windows, so it leaves your sound card (an...

nope

somber citrus Jul 21, 2025, 5:44 AM

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i'm clueless then

inland dawn Jul 21, 2025, 6:00 AM

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@hearty nova

elfin granite Jul 21, 2025, 6:25 AM

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are you certain?

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the settings are in quite an obscure place in windows. Hibernation also needs to be disabled

inland dawn Jul 21, 2025, 2:06 PM

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hibernation / fast startup was always disabled and yes I am 100% sure I tried this 5 times

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@elfin granite

inland dawn Jul 21, 2025, 2:07 PM

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elfin granite the settings are in quite an obscure place in windows. Hibernation also needs to...

what do you mean windows settings? Ive nothing to do with them

elfin granite Jul 21, 2025, 2:08 PM

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These badgers

inland dawn Jul 21, 2025, 2:08 PM

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😭 Ive had to fix 10 different "niche" problems in linux on my own

inland dawn Jul 21, 2025, 2:09 PM

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elfin granite These badgers

bro I know, I am literally a power user running a personally customized windows ISO using NTLite and multiple powershell comands

elfin granite Jul 21, 2025, 2:09 PM

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inland dawn what do you mean windows settings? Ive nothing to do with them

I interpreted this as asking what windows settings I meant

inland dawn Jul 21, 2025, 2:10 PM

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K understood

elfin granite Jul 21, 2025, 2:10 PM

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The idea is that windows doesn't actually shut down properly when those are active, so it can reserve hardware and make it unusable in another OS

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You going into the bios and it working after really really hints to that

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But if you're sure they're off then 😞

inland dawn Jul 21, 2025, 2:11 PM

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I understand what your saying, Ive done the disabling fast startup and / or hibernation and it has'nt worked, that is why I was asking for a way to reset that specific device at startup of linux

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I tried snd reset param in kernel options, did'nt work

elfin granite Jul 21, 2025, 2:12 PM

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It's a layer before the OS really. ACPI tables. Im sure it's possible though

inland dawn Jul 21, 2025, 2:12 PM

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At least I can use my headphones fine for the most part now so thats good, I only use windows to watch netflix due to linux drm restrictions

inland dawn Jul 21, 2025, 2:13 PM

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elfin granite It's a layer before the OS really. ACPI tables. Im sure it's possible though

try to research or ask some smart guy, I feel this is possible

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I will keep this thread open forever IDC how long it takes. BYE I am gonna study math

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could it be due to dts headphones x enabled its done through a propriatary app

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@elfin granite

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@elfin granite ping number 2

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I found the fix

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shutting down works and restarts dont

elfin granite Jul 21, 2025, 2:32 PM

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So much for studying lol

elfin granite Jul 21, 2025, 2:33 PM

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inland dawn shutting down works and restarts dont

That tracks

inland dawn Jul 21, 2025, 2:33 PM

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I should make a better restart command

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it took me a loooong time to back track my headphone not working lol

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AI slop: shutdown /s /full /t 0 && shutdown /r /t 0

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[SOLVED] Headphones never work [Wired JACK]

#[SOLVED] Headphones never work [Wired JACK]