Hey fellas, I’ve just bought myself a new a laptop and finally decided to give linux a try. I’m loving the fedora environment so far but I’ve come across a big problem that I’m unable to resolve myself. Namely I can’t get the system to play any sound at all, neither from the built-in speakers or my wired headset…
At this point I’ve tried the following:
- I tried different apps to see if any of them would have sound
- Reinstalling pipewire and wireplumber
- Reinstalling the whole fedora distro
- I tried installing a couple of other linux distros hoping to get any sound to work with bad results (ubuntu, linuxmint)
- As well as countless other possible fixes that I found on the web, which I didn’t completely understand
I also tried booting up windows 10 again today, just to make sure that it’s not a hardware issue. And sure enough, the speakers started working just fine…
Lastly I wanted to mention that when viewing the sound settings menu, fedora does show me that I have an Output Device connected (Speakers - Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor high Definition Audio). While both ubuntu and mint couldn’t recognize any Output Device at all, the only option they gave me was the “Dummy Audio” device.
I just did a complete wipe of my computer again and installed a fresh copy of fedora on it, also i ran the sudo dnf update
command.
I believe I am more tech savvy than the average person but i’m completely clueless when it comes to linux. Any help would be appreciated guys, thank you!
My system info:
H/W path Device Class Description
========================================================
system GeoBook 240 (GE178-US-1)
/0 bus EM_IG218_200B_ENE_TI_V2.0
/0/0 memory 64KiB BIOS
/0/23 memory 8GiB System Memory
/0/23/0 memory 2GiB DIMM LPDDR4 Synchronous 2400 MHz (0.4 ns)
/0/23/1 memory 2GiB DIMM LPDDR4 Synchronous 2400 MHz (0.4 ns)
/0/23/2 memory 2GiB DIMM LPDDR4 Synchronous 2400 MHz (0.4 ns)
/0/23/3 memory 2GiB DIMM LPDDR4 Synchronous 2400 MHz (0.4 ns)
/0/35 memory 224KiB L1 cache
/0/36 memory 4MiB L2 cache
/0/37 processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) Silver N5030 CPU @ 1.10GHz
/0/100 bridge Gemini Lake Host Bridge
/0/100/0.1 generic Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Dynamic Platform and Thermal Framework P
/0/100/2 display GeminiLake [UHD Graphics 605]
/0/100/e multimedia Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor High Definition Audio
/0/100/f communication Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Trusted Execution Engine Interface
/0/100/12 scsi1 storage Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor SATA Controller
/0/100/12/0.0.0 /dev/sda disk 128GB Netac SSD 128GB
/0/100/12/0.0.0/1 volume 599MiB Windows FAT volume
/0/100/12/0.0.0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 1GiB EXT4 volume
/0/100/12/0.0.0/3 /dev/sda3 volume 117GiB EFI partition
/0/100/14 bridge Gemini Lake PCI Express Root Port
/0/100/14/0 wlp1s0 network RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
/0/100/15 bus Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor USB 3.0 xHCI Controller
/0/100/15/0 usb1 bus xHCI Host Controller
/0/100/15/0/3 mmc0 bus USB2.0-CRW
/0/100/15/0/4 communication Bluetooth Radio
/0/100/15/0/6 multimedia USB camera
/0/100/15/1 usb2 bus xHCI Host Controller
/0/100/16 generic Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor I2C 0
/0/100/16.1 generic Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor I2C 1
/0/100/16.2 generic Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor I2C 2
/0/100/16.3 generic Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor I2C 3
/0/100/17 generic Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor I2C 4
/0/100/17.1 generic Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor I2C 5
/0/100/17.2 generic Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor I2C 6
/0/100/17.3 generic Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor I2C 7
/0/100/18 generic Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Serial IO UART Host Controller
/0/100/18.1 generic Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Serial IO UART Host Controller
/0/100/18.2 generic Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Serial IO UART Host Controller
/0/100/18.3 generic Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Serial IO UART Host Controller
/0/100/19 generic Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Serial IO SPI Host Controller
/0/100/19.1 generic Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Serial IO SPI Host Controller
/0/100/19.2 generic Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Serial IO SPI Host Controller
/0/100/1c mmc1 bus Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controlle
/0/100/1e mmc2 bus Intel Corporation
/0/100/1f bridge Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor LPC Controller
/0/100/1f.1 bus Celeron/Pentium Silver Processor Gaussian Mixture Model
/0/1 system PnP device PNP0c02
/0/2 system PnP device PNP0c02
/0/3 input PnP device PNP0303
/0/4 system PnP device PNP0b00
Pipewire seems to be ok?
[david@fedora ~]$ systemctl --user status pipewire
● pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service.d
└─00-uresourced.conf
Active: active (running) since Thu 2022-06-16 21:45:10 EDT; 2h 28min ago
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire.socket
Main PID: 1591 (pipewire)
Tasks: 2 (limit: 9155)
Memory: 8.7M
CPU: 27.307s
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pipewire.service
└─ 1591 /usr/bin/pipewire
Jun 16 21:45:10 fedora systemd[1461]: Started pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service.
[david@fedora ~]$ systemctl --user status pipewire-pulse.service
● pipewire-pulse.service - PipeWire PulseAudio
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire-pulse.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Thu 2022-06-16 21:45:11 EDT; 2h 25min ago
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire-pulse.socket
Main PID: 1743 (pipewire-pulse)
Tasks: 2 (limit: 9155)
Memory: 17.0M
CPU: 20.857s
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pipewire-pulse.service
└─ 1743 /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse
Jun 16 21:45:11 fedora systemd[1461]: Started pipewire-pulse.service - PipeWire PulseAudio.
[david@fedora ~]$ ps ax | grep pipewire
1591 ? S<sl 0:28 /usr/bin/pipewire
1743 ? S<Lsl 0:24 /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse
30554 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto pipewire
Please tell me if you require any additional info, I’ll provide it first thing in the morning!