Problem With Pulseaudio

T tried the lts kernel and sof-firmware with no luck . This is my /etc/pulse/default.pa :arrow_down:

#!/usr/bin/pulseaudio -nF
#
# This file is part of PulseAudio.
#
# PulseAudio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
# along with PulseAudio; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

# This startup script is used only if PulseAudio is started per-user
# (i.e. not in system mode)

.fail

### Automatically restore the volume of streams and devices
load-module module-device-restore
load-module module-stream-restore
load-module module-card-restore

### Automatically augment property information from .desktop files
### stored in /usr/share/application
load-module module-augment-properties

### Should be after module-*-restore but before module-*-detect
load-module module-switch-on-port-available

### Load audio drivers statically
### (it's probably better to not load these drivers manually, but instead
### use module-udev-detect -- see below -- for doing this automatically)
#load-module module-alsa-sink
#load-module module-alsa-source device=hw:1,0
#load-module module-oss device="/dev/dsp" sink_name=output source_name=input
#load-module module-oss-mmap device="/dev/dsp" sink_name=output source_name=input
#load-module module-null-sink
#load-module module-pipe-sink

### Automatically load driver modules depending on the hardware available
.ifexists module-udev-detect.so
load-module module-udev-detect
.else
### Use the static hardware detection module (for systems that lack udev support)
load-module module-detect
.endif

### Automatically connect sink and source if JACK server is present
.ifexists module-jackdbus-detect.so
.nofail
load-module module-jackdbus-detect channels=2
.fail
.endif

### Automatically load driver modules for Bluetooth hardware
.ifexists module-bluetooth-policy.so
load-module module-bluetooth-policy
.endif

.ifexists module-bluetooth-discover.so
load-module module-bluetooth-discover
.endif

### Load several protocols
load-module module-dbus-protocol
.ifexists module-esound-protocol-unix.so
load-module module-esound-protocol-unix
.endif
load-module module-native-protocol-unix

### Network access (may be configured with paprefs, so leave this commented
### here if you plan to use paprefs)
#load-module module-esound-protocol-tcp
#load-module module-native-protocol-tcp
#load-module module-zeroconf-publish

### Load the RTP receiver module (also configured via paprefs, see above)
#load-module module-rtp-recv

### Load the RTP sender module (also configured via paprefs, see above)
#load-module module-null-sink sink_name=rtp format=s16be channels=2 rate=44100 sink_properties="device.description='RTP Multicast Sink'"
#load-module module-rtp-send source=rtp.monitor

### Load additional modules from GSettings. This can be configured with the paprefs tool.
### Please keep in mind that the modules configured by paprefs might conflict with manually
### loaded modules.
.ifexists module-gsettings.so
.nofail
load-module module-gsettings
.fail
.endif


### Automatically restore the default sink/source when changed by the user
### during runtime
### NOTE: This should be loaded as early as possible so that subsequent modules
### that look up the default sink/source get the right value
load-module module-default-device-restore

### Make sure we always have a sink around, even if it is a null sink.
load-module module-always-sink

### Honour intended role device property
load-module module-intended-roles

### Automatically suspend sinks/sources that become idle for too long
load-module module-suspend-on-idle

### If autoexit on idle is enabled we want to make sure we only quit
### when no local session needs us anymore.
.ifexists module-console-kit.so
load-module module-console-kit
.endif
.ifexists module-systemd-login.so
load-module module-systemd-login
.endif

### Enable positioned event sounds
load-module module-position-event-sounds

### Cork music/video streams when a phone stream is active
load-module module-role-cork

### Modules to allow autoloading of filters (such as echo cancellation)
### on demand. module-filter-heuristics tries to determine what filters
### make sense, and module-filter-apply does the heavy-lifting of
### loading modules and rerouting streams.
load-module module-filter-heuristics
load-module module-filter-apply

### Make some devices default
#set-default-sink output
#set-default-source input

# automatically switch to newly-connected devices 
load-module module-switch-on-connect

Is there any problem in it ?? I don’t know what else to check :man_shrugging:

To be honest i don’t know what changes you have made. Some of these new intel audio chips require sof-firmware. After installing it you’ll have to look at the hardware output to see if it loaded it.
What does inxi -Fxxxa --no -host show now? Also look at dmesg.

I only made the change joekamprad said . Nothing more .
Here is inxi -Fxxxa --no-host

System:    Kernel: 5.9.14-arch1-1 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=5696a235-4f76-4e3b-8059-f93c78a448fe rw 
           rootflags=subvol=@ quiet 
           cryptdevice=UUID=6445586c-3f13-4865-82bd-6a98ba1040d3:luks-6445586c-3f13-4865-82bd-6a98ba1040d3 
           root=/dev/mapper/luks-6445586c-3f13-4865-82bd-6a98ba1040d3 loglevel=3 nowatchdog 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.14.3 tk: Gtk 3.24.23 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: EndeavourOS 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Aspire A315-53 v: V2.02 serial: <superuser required> 
           Mobo: KBL model: Metapod_KL v: V2.02 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Insyde v: 2.02 date: 01/03/2019 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT1 charge: 22.6 Wh condition: 24.7/37.0 Wh (67%) volts: 8.3/7.7 model: PANASONIC 004A354D36315041 
           type: Li-ion serial: 0000 status: Charging 
CPU:       Info: Dual Core model: Intel Pentium 4417U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake note: check family: 6 
           model-id: 8E (142) stepping: A (10) microcode: E0 L2 cache: 2 MiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 18406 
           Speed: 900 MHz min/max: 400/2300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 900 2: 900 3: 900 4: 900 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable 
           Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 
           mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
           Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:5906 
           Device-2: Quanta VGA WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus ID: 1-7:3 chip ID: 0408:a031 serial: 0x0001 
           Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.10 driver: intel unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo> 
           Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing. 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           alternate: snd_soc_skl bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:9d71 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.9.14-arch1-1 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI 
           driver: r8168 v: 8.048.03-NAPI modules: r8169 port: 3000 bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 10ec:8168 
           IF: enp1s0f1 state: down mac: 98:28:a6:41:29:ff 
           Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Lite-On driver: ath10k_pci 
           v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 168c:0042 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: f8:a2:d6:84:fa:69 
           Device-3: Lite-On Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb bus ID: 1-5:2 
           chip ID: 04ca:3015 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 68.42 GiB (14.7%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Toshiba model: MQ01ABF050 size: 465.76 GiB block size: 
           physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: 29FXC12ZT rev: 2J 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 465.27 GiB size: 465.27 GiB (100.00%) used: 68.42 GiB (14.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 
           maj-min: 254:0 mapped: luks-6445586c-3f13-4865-82bd-6a98ba1040d3 
           ID-2: /boot/efi raw size: 500 MiB size: 499 MiB (99.80%) used: 696 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 
           maj-min: 8:1 
           ID-3: /home raw size: 465.27 GiB size: 465.27 GiB (100.00%) used: 68.42 GiB (14.7%) fs: btrfs 
           dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0 mapped: luks-6445586c-3f13-4865-82bd-6a98ba1040d3 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache pressure: 100 (default) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 1024 MiB used: 168.5 MiB (16.5%) priority: 100 dev: /dev/zram0 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 211 Uptime: 11h 05m wakeups: 6 Memory: 3.72 GiB used: 1.27 GiB (34.1%) Init: systemd v: 247 
           Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: pacman: 1061 lib: 256 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.0 running in: xfce4-terminal 
           inxi: 3.2.00 

pulseaudio -k executed as user should also do the job.

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I am also seeing this behaviour in live boot . Tried it right now . There is an unplugged headphone in audio output devices after booting to the live environment . I didn’t even plugin my headphone . This was the latest iso . I will try out another distro and report .

Edit : Well I tried Manjaro and Linux Lite live boots and the same problem occurred .

So now my question is , can this be a hardware problem ?
i.e. some kind of malfunction :question:

OK I will take this bug as a feature . I can switch to my speakers without unplugging my headphone :partying_face:

:grin: :grin: :grin:

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