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USB Headset Prevents Media Playing on Arch

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I recently bought a USB headset and it has been behaving very inconsistently. Sometimes it works fine but other times, if I try to play any media, it acts as if it is buffering until I unplug the headset. Running speaker-test (both with and without -c2) either hangs or produces the error Write error: -77,File descriptor in bad state. The latter I haven't been able to reproduce since installing sof-firmware, but this hasn't helped in any other way. My headset is EPOS H3 Hybrid and my laptop is a Dell G15 Ryzen Edition. For my audio, I use PireWire with Wireplumber, as compatibility, pipewire-pulse, pipewire-alsa, and pipewire-jack. Whenever I play audio, journalctl seems to fill with spa.alsa: front:3: (250 missed) snd_pcm_avail after recover: Broken pipe. Additionally, my laptop speakers don't seem to work at the moment but media will still play. Does anyone know how this could be fixed?
Asked by Aurillium (3 rep)
Jun 8, 2023, 02:11 PM
Last activity: Jun 29, 2023, 03:48 AM