[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1021179: pipewire-pulse: KDE Plasma+ALC4080 onboard card: unable to select working profile

[Maurizio Avogadro]

Interesting enough, there is an interesting difference between Pulseaudio and 
Pipewire in the output of

$ pactl list cards | grep -E '(Profile|available:)'

With Pulseaudio:
	Profiles:
		HiFi: Play HiFi quality Music (sinks: 3, sources: 2, priority:
			8000, available: yes)
		off: Spento (sinks: 0, sources: 0, priority: 0, available: yes)
	Active Profile: HiFi

With Pipewire:
	Profiles:
		off: Spento (sinks: 0, sources: 0, priority: 0, available: yes)
		HiFi: Play HiFi quality Music (sinks: 3, sources: 2, priority:
			8000, available: no)
	Active Profile: off

The "HiFi" profile is not available with Pipewire; the profile can still be 
selected manually with the command

$ pacmd set-card-profile alsa_card.usb-Generic_USB_Audio-00 HiFi

which makes the card work perfectly.

As I described in my first message, in Gnome the working profile is not 
automatically selected (but can be selected manually: Gnome allows the 
selection of "not available" profiles), while in KDE Plasma only available 
profiles can be selected.