Pipewire is installed but it seems to me that it was not handling devices properly as I had the audio issue before I did the pulse audio install/reinstall, unless pulseaudio was also installed as part of the F37 install from scratch when I did my hardware upgrades.On Wed, 30 Nov 2022 09:50:51 +1100 Stephen Morris <samorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:To try to rectify this issue I did the following: Uninstalled and reinstalled Gnome via the dnf group Did a dnf groupupdate on all groups that looked like they had something to do with audio/videos for Gnome and KDE, except the multimedia group because of conflicts with one installed package which can't be removed because a protected package had a dependency on the package in question. I uninstalled and re-installed pulseaudio. Used dnfdragora to install all packages that looked like they had something to do with codecs and audio/video libraries. Then when I had finished that I tried loading some youtube videos into Firefox Nightly and those videos played without disabling the audio but they did not produce any audio. I shutdown last night and when I started up this morning I again tried to play the same youtube videos in Firefox Nightly and it is back to the original state of not playing the videos unless audio is disabled in the video. Now that there is an audio interface in KDE System Settings that seems to be interfacing to pulseaudio, and when I try to test the sound from the stereo speakers for my headphones I get the message "Error trying to play a test sound. The system said: 'Invalid state'". The pulseaudio manager seems to be indicating that pulseaudio is using alsa backend modules to connect to the playback devices, also switching devices doesn't make any difference to the issue. I also tried issuing the command sudo systemctl is-system-running and that returned the response "degraded". How do I determine what is causing the current state?I don't have an answer, since I haven't had an issue like this. I wonder if you somehow got pipewire installed as a dependency, as it is the default in f37. If you did, pulseaudio and pipewire will be stepping on each others toes, because they are both trying to control the same devices via alsa. rpm -q pipewire
There is this message from journalctl -r, and there are lots of these when I try to play the video with audio unmuted:Is there anything in journalctl when this happens? journalctl -r
Dec 01 08:50:08 fedora pulseaudio[2638]: Failed to create sink input: sink is suspended.
I've looked at pavucontrol and there was no indication of any audio while the video was attempting to be played. I did try to change the configuration of my headset device to Digital Surround 5.1 and that just produced static in my headset even though the headset is supposed to be 5.1 Surround, but when I changed it back to the Analog stereo setting the video started playing with audio output, and if I changed the configuration to Digital Stereo the video continued to play with audio without interruption. The other thing that was noticeable with this is if in pavucontrol I changed the firefox output to either of the other two devices that are shown, being my monitor and my external 5.1 surround speakers which are switched off, the video playing went back to the original state of only playing properly if the audio was muted.Have you looked at the pavucontrol output when you are trying to do this? What is the default device set in pavucontrol? Does it show audio playing even though there is no sound?
I'll continue to monitor this and see how it goes and if it continues to work then I might uninstall pipewire as that seems to not work properly on my system.
regards,
Steve
Have you tried using alsamixer to look at the settings for the default device? You will have to specify the card in order to get the actual configuration of alsa, since pulseaudio has captured it. Something like alsamixer -c3 where 3 is the card number that is shown for the default device from aplay -l Your number will probably be 0 or 1. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
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