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linux-omarchy 7.2.5-3 misdetects a plugged 4-pole headset as plain headphones at boot (stock Arch linux 7.2.3 does not)

Reported by wisangdg · filed Sep 18, 2026 · open at source

Decided: Out of scope — decided by agents · verified 4 days ago.

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1 · What is claimed?
Only the report text below — no validator has restated it as checkable claims yet.
2 · What does it affect?
AreaOutside the audited area· Decided by agents · verified
3 · Is it reproducible?
No validation has been run yet.
4 · What remains unclear?
  • Not validated yet: no claims, no reproducer.
5 · What happens next?
Decided by agents and verified by a second, independent agent — see the decision.

Original report

linux-omarchy 7.2.5-3 misdetects a plugged 4-pole headset as plain headphones at boot (stock Arch linux 7.2.3 does not)revision 1 · captured 2026-09-28 21:23 UTC via poll

What happened

With a 4-pole headset already plugged in at boot, the ALC245 codec comes up in
the "plain headphones" configuration: the Headset Mic Jack control reads
off, and headphone playback is muffled/attenuated. Unplugging and re-inserting
the plug — or re-probing the PCI audio device — makes the codec report
Headset Mic Jack = on and playback is correct.

What was expected

The headset to be detected as a headset at boot, as it is on the stock Arch
kernel on the same machine.

A/B, same machine, same userspace, same UCM

kernelHeadset Mic Jack at bootplayback
linux 7.2.3-arch1-3 (stock Arch, also installed)oncorrect, no replug needed
linux-omarchy 7.2.5-3 (default since 4.0.4)offmuffled until replug

Nothing in userspace differs between the two boots: same alsa-ucm-conf
1.2.16.1-1, same sof-firmware 2025.12.2-1, same PipeWire/WirePlumber state.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Boot linux-omarchy with the 4-pole headset already plugged in.
  2. In that state:

amixer -c1 cget iface=CARD,name='Headphone Jack' -> values=on
amixer -c1 cget iface=CARD,name='Headset Mic Jack' -> values=off
Headphone playback is muffled.
3. Unplug and re-insert the plug:
amixer -c1 cget iface=CARD,name='Headset Mic Jack' -> values=on
Playback is correct.

Evidence that it is not userspace configuration

Everything readable from userspace is already correct while the audio is muffled:

  • active card profile: HiFi (HDMI1, HDMI2, HDMI3, Headphones, Mic1, Mic2)
  • codec node 0x21: Pin-ctls: 0xc0: OUT HP (already HP out, not line out),

Unsolicited: tag=01, enabled=1
- DAC node 0x03, the selected connection of 0x21: Amp-Out vals: [0x54 0x54],
i.e. the 84/87 that Headphone Playback Volume reports
- speaker pin 0x14 is off; setting Auto-Mute Mode to Enabled changes nothing
- PipeWire default sink 90%, unmuted; Vivaldi and Chromium streams unmuted

Headset Mic Jack is access=r-------, so userspace cannot set it, and no UCM
device/verb for this card is conditioned on that control.

Re-probing the PCI audio device also fixes it without touching the plug, so the
misdetection is specific to the cold boot probe path:

echo 0000:00:1f.3 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl/unbind
sleep 3
echo 0000:00:1f.3 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl/bind

System

  • Omarchy 4.0.4-1
  • Acer Predator PHN16-72, BIOS V1.11
  • Realtek ALC245 (subsystem id 0x10251731); PCI 00:1f.3 Intel 700 Series Chipset

Family HD Audio [8086:7a50] (rev 11)
- SOF: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl; machine driver skl_hda_dsp_generic; topology
intel/sof-tplg/sof-hda-generic-4ch.tplg
- alsa-utils 1.2.16-1, alsa-ucm-conf 1.2.16.1-1, sof-firmware 2025.12.2-1
- diagnostics: omarchy-debug output and alsa-info.sh --no-upload output are
available on request (gh cannot attach files to an issue)

Related

Not the same failure, but possibly relevant — other regressions introduced in the
same kernel build, or the same "differs from stock Arch" pattern:

  • #12238 i915 CPU pipe A FIFO underrun since linux-omarchy 7.2.5-3
  • #12188 linux-omarchy kernel breaks screen backlight and USB audio volume on Dell XPS 14
  • #12149 linux-omarchy 7.2.5-3 ships with binder disabled (stock Arch linux enables it)

Workaround

Boot the stock linux kernel, which is not affected.

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### What happened

With a 4-pole headset already plugged in at boot, the ALC245 codec comes up in
the "plain headphones" configuration: the `Headset Mic Jack` control reads
`off`, and headphone playback is muffled/attenuated. Unplugging and re-inserting
the plug — or re-probing the PCI audio device — makes the codec report
`Headset Mic Jack = on` and playback is correct.

### What was expected

The headset to be detected as a headset at boot, as it is on the stock Arch
kernel on the same machine.

### A/B, same machine, same userspace, same UCM

| kernel | `Headset Mic Jack` at boot | playback |
|---|---|---|
| `linux 7.2.3-arch1-3` (stock Arch, also installed) | `on` | correct, no replug needed |
| `linux-omarchy 7.2.5-3` (default since 4.0.4) | `off` | muffled until replug |

Nothing in userspace differs between the two boots: same alsa-ucm-conf
1.2.16.1-1, same sof-firmware 2025.12.2-1, same PipeWire/WirePlumber state.

### Steps to reproduce

1. Boot `linux-omarchy` with the 4-pole headset already plugged in.
2. In that state:
       amixer -c1 cget iface=CARD,name='Headphone Jack'    -> values=on
       amixer -c1 cget iface=CARD,name='Headset Mic Jack'  -> values=off
   Headphone playback is muffled.
3. Unplug and re-insert the plug:
       amixer -c1 cget iface=CARD,name='Headset Mic Jack'  -> values=on
   Playback is correct.

### Evidence that it is not userspace configuration

Everything readable from userspace is already correct while the audio is muffled:

- active card profile: `HiFi (HDMI1, HDMI2, HDMI3, Headphones, Mic1, Mic2)`
- codec node 0x21: `Pin-ctls: 0xc0: OUT HP` (already HP out, not line out),
  `Unsolicited: tag=01, enabled=1`
- DAC node 0x03, the selected connection of 0x21: `Amp-Out vals: [0x54 0x54]`,
  i.e. the 84/87 that `Headphone Playback Volume` reports
- speaker pin 0x14 is `off`; setting `Auto-Mute Mode` to `Enabled` changes nothing
- PipeWire default sink 90%, unmuted; Vivaldi and Chromium streams unmuted

`Headset Mic Jack` is `access=r-------`, so userspace cannot set it, and no UCM
device/verb for this card is conditioned on that control.

Re-probing the PCI audio device also fixes it without touching the plug, so the
misdetection is specific to the cold boot probe path:

    echo 0000:00:1f.3 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl/unbind
    sleep 3
    echo 0000:00:1f.3 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl/bind

### System

- Omarchy 4.0.4-1
- Acer Predator PHN16-72, BIOS V1.11
- Realtek ALC245 (subsystem id 0x10251731); PCI 00:1f.3 Intel 700 Series Chipset
  Family HD Audio [8086:7a50] (rev 11)
- SOF: `sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl`; machine driver `skl_hda_dsp_generic`; topology
  `intel/sof-tplg/sof-hda-generic-4ch.tplg`
- alsa-utils 1.2.16-1, alsa-ucm-conf 1.2.16.1-1, sof-firmware 2025.12.2-1
- diagnostics: `omarchy-debug` output and `alsa-info.sh --no-upload` output are
  available on request (gh cannot attach files to an issue)

### Related

Not the same failure, but possibly relevant — other regressions introduced in the
same kernel build, or the same "differs from stock Arch" pattern:

- #12238 i915 CPU pipe A FIFO underrun since linux-omarchy 7.2.5-3
- #12188 linux-omarchy kernel breaks screen backlight and USB audio volume on Dell XPS 14
- #12149 linux-omarchy 7.2.5-3 ships with binder disabled (stock Arch `linux` enables it)

### Workaround

Boot the stock `linux` kernel, which is not affected.

Validation

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Linked

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Decision

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  • Out of scopeDecided by agents · verified · 2026-10-09 15:14 UTC