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visk

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Registered: 2025-06-22

Posts: 4

Not working headphone jack

Hello,

I have been running arch for about 6 months and for audio drivers I am using alsa + pipewire + wireplumber set up. Until recently wireplumber didn't have any issues switching audo output from speakers to headphone jack whenever I would plug in headphones, but recently this stopped working. My laptop model is xps 13 9340.

[samuel@vimes ~]$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: sofsoundwire [sof-soundwire], device 2: Speaker (*) []
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: sofsoundwire [sof-soundwire], device 5: HDMI1 (*) []
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: sofsoundwire [sof-soundwire], device 6: HDMI2 (*) []
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: sofsoundwire [sof-soundwire], device 7: HDMI3 (*) []
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

[samuel@vimes ~]$ wpctl status
PipeWire 'pipewire-0' [1.4.7, samuel@vimes, cookie:2707234442]
 └─ Clients:
        33. pipewire                            [1.4.7, samuel@vimes, pid:1001]
        53. Steam                               [1.4.7, samuel@vimes, pid:58378]
        93. WirePlumber                         [1.4.7, samuel@vimes, pid:103415]
       105. Firefox                             [1.4.7, samuel@vimes, pid:1262]
       163. Firefox                             [1.4.7, samuel@vimes, pid:1262]
       164. Steam Voice Settings                [1.4.7, samuel@vimes, pid:58378]
       200. WirePlumber [export]                [1.4.7, samuel@vimes, pid:103415]
       230. wpctl                               [1.4.7, samuel@vimes, pid:104924]
       257. Telegram                            [1.4.7, samuel@vimes, pid:14085]
       299. Chromium input                      [1.4.7, samuel@vimes, pid:96082]

Audio
 ├─ Devices:
 │      75. Meteor Lake-P HD Audio Controller   [alsa]
 │
 ├─ Sinks:
 │  *   46. Dummy Output                        [vol: 1.00]
 │
 ├─ Sources:
 │
 ├─ Filters:
 │
 └─ Streams:
       146. Firefox
             90. output_FR       > Dummy Output:playback_FR	[active]
            263. output_FL       > Dummy Output:playback_FL	[active]

Using pavucontrol I enabled the proaudio, which gave the following output via iwctl

wpctl status
PipeWire 'pipewire-0' [1.4.7, samuel@vimes, cookie:2707234442]
 └─ Clients:
        33. pipewire                            [1.4.7, samuel@vimes, pid:1001]
        53. Steam                               [1.4.7, samuel@vimes, pid:58378]
        93. WirePlumber                         [1.4.7, samuel@vimes, pid:103415]
       105. Firefox                             [1.4.7, samuel@vimes, pid:1262]
       163. Firefox                             [1.4.7, samuel@vimes, pid:1262]
       164. Steam Voice Settings                [1.4.7, samuel@vimes, pid:58378]
       200. WirePlumber [export]                [1.4.7, samuel@vimes, pid:103415]
       230. wpctl                               [1.4.7, samuel@vimes, pid:105206]
       257. Telegram                            [1.4.7, samuel@vimes, pid:14085]
       299. Chromium input                      [1.4.7, samuel@vimes, pid:96082]

Audio
 ├─ Devices:
 │      75. Meteor Lake-P HD Audio Controller   [alsa]
 │
 ├─ Sinks:
 │      63. Meteor Lake-P HD Audio Controller Pro 7 [vol: 1.00]
 │  *  127. Meteor Lake-P HD Audio Controller Pro [vol: 1.00]
 │     189. Meteor Lake-P HD Audio Controller Pro 5 [vol: 1.00]
 │     277. Meteor Lake-P HD Audio Controller Pro 6 [vol: 1.00]
 │
 ├─ Sources:
 │  *   54. Meteor Lake-P HD Audio Controller Pro 4 [vol: 1.00]
 │
 ├─ Filters:
 │
 └─ Streams:
       146. Firefox
             90. output_FL       > Pro:playback_AUX0	[init]
            133. output_FR       > Pro:playback_AUX1	[init]

Any help is appreciated