So I upgraded via terminal recently (sudo dnf upgrade), and since then I seem to have lost my speaker sound on Fedora 43.
I tried booting through previous kernels, but the same problem persists.
I also tried (sudo dnf upgrade --refresh) to update alsa as per another suggestion, but that did not help either.
Note that when I plug in earphones, I can hear sound through them. It seems like a problem with the speaker.
There’s nothing wrong with the speakers, since they play audio when I boot into my other distro (CachyOS).
I am posting the results of inxi -F below. Would appreciate any help, thanks!
I have the same problem on a Lenovo with a Celeron chip.
If you file a bug with bugzilla.redhat.com I’ll upload relevant logs there too and the Kernel maintainers might have some ideas.
Thanks for the suggestion. Done that here . Hope it helps.
Note that there have been 2 kernel updates (along with other software) since the 6.18.5 kernel shown in your images.
I suggest that you perform a full upgrade at the cli using sudo dnf upgrade --refresh then retest and see if there are changes.
Thanks Jeff. The older kernel images showed in the specs because I had booted from an older image. But earlier in the day itself I had done a full upgrade with the --refresh option. That’s when something broke, I don’t know what exactly.
Since Fedora is my daily driver, I had to resort to a rather cumbersome “solution” - I reinstalled Fedora afresh, and then performed a system upgrade. The problem does not recur for now. I will give it a few days to see if it does.
ilikelinux
February 12, 2026, 12:12pm
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Still everything fine till today? Other users are relating similar issues.
pratty-rat
February 12, 2026, 12:19pm
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Yes, no problems since I reinstalled the system.
joebutter
February 21, 2026, 3:05pm
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What versions are you running?
