New installation of fedora 43 and KDE plasma. I am beginner user of Linux. Everything seems fine, but audio is garbled and sounds like in a tunnel. There is no popping as described in other pleas for help. Been through searches on internet, forums, chatGPT and half terminal commands are unrecognized or breaks halfway through command. Rebooted after below code (which failed halfway) and did get good audio from mp3 in root tree. Pllayed mp3 in sepperate SSD and no sound at all. Back to original mp3 and no sound. Any ideas?
Pulseaudio has not been used on fedora for quite some time. The default audio stack is pipewire and wireplumber. Installing pulseaudio can (and seemingly did) totally break audio on fedora.
There is an audio front end that is installed by default on fedora workstation
The gnome Audio Player
You can undo the action that was taken to install pulseaudio using 2 commands.
dnf4 history list to show all the actions taken The transactions are in reverse order and the highest number will be the most recent. That number is needed for the next command sudo dnf4 history undo <ID#> should reverse the actions taken during that last command which installed pulseaudio.
After removing pulseaudio then a reboot will be required. After that if there are still problems with audio please come back here for more assistance.
Often random commands from the internet and google searches without full details can break things worse.
It was garbled after initial install. After pulse, it was better then nothing and after posting, back to garbled. The History command removed RPM fusion and pulse audio. The audio is back to garbled as before. Will run system upgrade and post results.
I wasnt sure this was a Fedora or KDE Plasma issue. Googled Plasma issue and did the following. After rebooting, it worked. I was focusing on Pulseaudio for the Equalizer as some downloaded music was low quality and got better results. This was on the previous Mint OS. I need to evaluate the quality, but is there a KDE equivalent equalizer?
Greg@fedora:~$ systemctl --user restart pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber
Greg@fedora:~$ wireplumber
E 10:53:53.847417 wp-event-dispatche (null):(null):(null): wp_event_dispatcher_unregister_hook: assertion ‘already_registered_dispatcher == self’ failed
E 10:53:53.847587 wp-event-dispatche (null):(null):(null): wp_event_dispatcher_unregister_hook: assertion ‘already_registered_dispatcher == self’ failed
E 10:53:53.847609 wp-event-dispatche (null):(null):(null): wp_event_dispatcher_unregister_hook: assertion ‘already_registered_dispatcher == self’ failed
E 10:53:53.847626 wp-event-dispatche (null):(null):(null): wp_event_dispatcher_unregister_hook: assertion ‘already_registered_dispatcher == self’ failed
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^CN 10:54:38.566070 wireplumber ../src/main.c:82:signal_handler: stopped by signal: Interrupt
W 10:54:38.567662 pw.core ../src/pipewire/core.c:199:destroy_proxy: 0x55b03ff65ad0: leaked proxy 0x55b04000be00 id:10
W 10:54:38.567698 pw.core ../src/pipewire/core.c:199:destroy_proxy: 0x55b03ff65ad0: leaked proxy 0x55b04006ce00 id:36
Greg@fedora:~$ rm -r ~/.local/state/wireplumber
Greg@fedora:~$ systemctl --user restart pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber
Greg@fedora:~$ plasma-pa
bash: plasma-pa: command not found…
Greg@fedora:~$ inxi -Fzxx
bash: inxi: command not found…
Install package ‘inxi’ to provide command ‘inxi’? [N/y] n