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Poyo

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Registered: 2025-10-26

Posts: 1

No sound on Built-in speakers specifically

i'd like to start off by stating that my speakers are not broken themselves

sound works perfectly fine with jack headphones, USB headphones and the HDMI output just not the laptop's built in speakers specifically

i am running 6.17.5-arch1-1 on an MSI Thin GF63 12VE (laptop) with KDE plasma 6.5.0  -- wayland  (specs if relevant: intel i7-12650H, 32GB ram, intel iGPU. NVIDIA 4050 laptop GPU)

this problem is a come and go problem that randomly appears and disappears without a seeming pattern other than the fact it's linked to system updates, it does not fix itself with re-installs of the operating system nor do any of the things i tried seem to solve it

i originally had pipewire when the problem first occurred several months ago switched to pulseaudio, completely reinstalled the whole system with both pipewire and pulseaudio then gave up and left pulseaudio installed which somehow fixed itself and then broke again today right after doing a complete system update so i switched to pipewire without reinstalling arch which is were i resign now and it didn't solve the problem

i would like not to go back to pulseaudio and just make pipewire work the way i switched was by manually removing <pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa pulseaduio-bluetooth> then installing pipewire using pipewire-pulse
i then also made sure to have installed and update the following packages: asla-utils sor-firmware linux-firmware linux-firmware-cirrus linux-frimware-intel alsa-firmware pipewire lib32-pipewire pipewire-alsa jack

i have also at some point deleted ~/.local/state/wireplumber/ but after more tinkering it has returned

here is the result "systemctl --user status pipewire wireplumber pipewire-pulse pulseaudio" currently gives me:

● pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sun 2025-10-26 03:25:35 EET; 1h 6min ago
 Invocation: c8a5ea136ad14bceac1351457f9bc409
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire.socket
   Main PID: 868 (pipewire)
      Tasks: 3 (limit: 37884)
     Memory: 54.7M (peak: 59.9M)
        CPU: 3min 44.230s
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pipewire.service
             └─868 /usr/bin/pipewire

Oct 26 03:25:35 William-Aptop systemd[856]: Started PipeWire Multimedia Service.

● wireplumber.service - Multimedia Service Session Manager
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/wireplumber.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sun 2025-10-26 03:25:35 EET; 1h 6min ago
 Invocation: 03046965626a466eb86e69251027496e
   Main PID: 869 (wireplumber)
      Tasks: 6 (limit: 37884)
     Memory: 29.1M (peak: 32M)
        CPU: 56.175s
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/wireplumber.service
             └─869 /usr/bin/wireplumber

Oct 26 04:11:55 William-Aptop wireplumber[869]: wp-event-dispatcher: <WpAsyncEventHook:0x5640d388f160> failed: <WpSiStandardLink:0x5640d3af9c60> link failed: 1 of 1 PipeWire links failed to activate
Oct 26 04:12:29 William-Aptop wireplumber[869]: wp-event-dispatcher: <WpAsyncEventHook:0x5640d388f160> failed: <WpSiStandardLink:0x5640d3d89aa0> link failed: some node was destroyed before the link was created
Oct 26 04:12:29 William-Aptop wireplumber[869]: wp-event-dispatcher: <WpAsyncEventHook:0x5640d388f160> failed: <WpSiStandardLink:0x5640d3d79d80> link failed: some node was destroyed before the link was created
Oct 26 04:12:30 William-Aptop wireplumber[869]: wp-event-dispatcher: <WpAsyncEventHook:0x5640d388f160> failed: <WpSiStandardLink:0x5640d37b4530> link failed: some node was destroyed before the link was created
Oct 26 04:13:09 William-Aptop wireplumber[869]: wp-event-dispatcher: <WpAsyncEventHook:0x5640d388f160> failed: <WpSiStandardLink:0x5640d3cd45d0> link failed: some node was destroyed before the link was created
Oct 26 04:13:10 William-Aptop wireplumber[869]: wp-event-dispatcher: <WpAsyncEventHook:0x5640d388f160> failed: <WpSiStandardLink:0x5640d3c58c90> link failed: some node was destroyed before the link was created
Oct 26 04:23:41 William-Aptop wireplumber[869]: wp-event-dispatcher: <WpAsyncEventHook:0x5640d388f160> failed: <WpSiStandardLink:0x5640d3a6d150> link failed: some node was destroyed before the link was created
Oct 26 04:31:25 William-Aptop wireplumber[869]: wp-event-dispatcher: <WpAsyncEventHook:0x5640d388f160> failed: <WpSiStandardLink:0x5640d3af68e0> link failed: some node was destroyed before the link was created
Oct 26 04:31:37 William-Aptop wireplumber[869]: wp-event-dispatcher: <WpAsyncEventHook:0x5640d388f160> failed: <WpSiStandardLink:0x5640d38d8440> link failed: some node was destroyed before the link was created
Oct 26 04:32:23 William-Aptop wireplumber[869]: wp-event-dispatcher: <WpAsyncEventHook:0x5640d388f160> failed: <WpSiStandardLink:0x5640d3c7b780> link failed: some node was destroyed before the link was created

● pipewire-pulse.service - PipeWire PulseAudio
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire-pulse.service; Unit pulseaudio.service could not be found.
2menabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sun 2025-10-26 03:25:35 EET; 1h 6min ago
 Invocation: 3a19362bed5b4706884aa69aad1beb80
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire-pulse.socket
   Main PID: 871 (pipewire-pulse)
      Tasks: 3 (limit: 37884)
     Memory: 91.1M (peak: 98.4M)
        CPU: 4min 28.819s
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pipewire-pulse.service
             └─871 /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse

Oct 26 03:25:35 William-Aptop systemd[856]: Started PipeWire PulseAudio.

i was usually okay with it not working but now i have done everything to make it work and honestly i just want the speakers to work they are quite important