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Audio delay when plugging in headphones (3.5mm jack)

Hello,

I have a laptop Asus VivoBook S15 X510UF with a combined 3.5mm audio jack (headphones + microphone). I’m using Arch Linux with KDE Plasma and PipeWire.

The issue is that when I plug in my headphones, the audio switches to them with about a 10-second delay instead of immediately. The same happens when I unplug them — the sound returns to the speakers with the same delay.

So basically, there is always about a 10-second delay when switching audio devices via the jack.

Could you please advise how to fix this? I’m new to Linux, so I would really appreciate any help or maybe a link to a relevant article on the Arch Wiki.

Thank you!

BIGBEASTISHANK

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Re: Audio delay when plugging in headphones (3.5mm jack)

try disabling alsa powersharing because it sometimes happned due to that

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/audio-disable-powersave.conf

Now add

options snd_hda_intel power_save=0

sudo mkinitcpio -P
sudo reboot

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