Hey together,

I am using Garuda, an Arch based Distro for a while with KDE plasma 5 desktop.

Since today, when I boot up, I hear no startup sound, also other notification's don´t make sound.
I already the reason: After booting, the level of the notifications is set to 0%.
Setting it to another level does help only temporarily, after reboot it is 0% again.

I use pipewire as sound driver, if this may help, and a Bluetooth connected speaker.

Can you tell me please what may help me fixing this, cause I am not very informed in Linux handling of
sound.

Thank you in advance,
René

Audio:
Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Pegatron
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:1e20 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.16.8-zen1-1-zen running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.45 running: yes
System:
Kernel: 5.16.8-zen1-1-zen x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen root=UUID=bbd31a1a-5acd-4143-b97f-a940c8bb5b82
rw rootflags=subvol=@ quiet splash rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0
loglevel=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.24.0 tk: Qt 5.15.2 info: latte-dock wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux

Did you try Pulseaudio as the default?