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My friend installed Linux on his laptop and the sound just didn’t work. Even after setting up Pipewire ! The speakers did appeared with wpctl status and aplay -l, but nope, no sound.
We found a fix, it works on Arch, Debian 13, and Void Linux (and probably on other distros too).
The Fix
Packages
First, install these packages (I am on Arch so I use pacman).
sudo pacman -S wireplumber pipewire pipewire-pulse pipewire-alsa alsa-utils alsa-tools alsa-firmware sof-firmware
Now reboot !
Start pipewire and co
Then if you are on Artix Linux with runit or Void Linux, you must start pipewire, then pipewire-pulse then wireplumber on each boot.
If you are using systemd, your package manager should have enabled the three services automatically.
You can check if the programs are running with this command :
ps x | grep -E "pipewire|wireplumber"
Go check if your sound works now ! If it doesn’t, check if your speakers appear in the Audio section of this command :
wpctl status
If they don’t, I don’t have any other tips for you. Try searching for “matebook huawei sound linux” in your favorite search engine. You will find good stuff like this