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title: "Manjaro PinePhone no sound after October 2023 update"
date: 2023-10-11 21:31:12 +0100
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After running a software upgrade yesterday (10 October 2023) with
`sudo pacman -Syu`, my PinePhone ended up with no sound.

See [this post on the Manjaro forum][0] for my fix. To summarize:

 - I downgraded everything by following the "Downgrading all upgraded
   packages" section in [this article][1] (parsing /var/log/pacman.log
   and restoring from /var/cache/pacman/pkg/), and uninstalled
   alsa-ucm-pinephone. I then re-upgraded and manually reinstalled
   alsa-ucm-pinephone, and it just magically worked.
 - I suspect an easier fix will be to just edit
   /usr/share/alsa/ucm2/conf.d/simple-card/PinePhone.conf
   and only keep `Syntax 2` and the `SectionUseCase."HiFi"` and
   `SectionUseCase."Voice Call"` sections, and remove everything
   else.

[0]: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/arm-unstable-no-sound-with-pinephone-after-update/140727/19
[1]: https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-rollback-pacman-updates-in-arch-linux