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adnope

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Registered: 2024-08-16

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Using headphones and speakers simultaneously

I've installed pipewire, pipewire-pulse, pipewire-media-session to set-up audio for my device. On Windows, when I plug my headphones in I can change the system to use internal speakers or headphones, but when I do it on Arch it shows in pavucontrol "Speakers (Unavailable)" and "Headphones (Plugged)". I've heard people say that it is because the auto-mute feature but I don't know how to disable it, what should I do?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Using headphones and speakers simultaneously

Auto-mute is usually controlled on an ALSA/driver level, so check

aplay -l
amixer -c0 #Replace the 0 with whatever index relates to your actual card

If you just want simultaneous disabling the auto-mute control should suffice. If you want to control them independently you might have to play around with the indep_hp model hint: https://docs.kernel.org/sound/hd-audio/ … nt-strings

Side note, you probably want to install wireplumber instead of pipewire-media-session.