Disappeared nvidia audio device after reinstalling pipewire

check the configuration tab pls

unavailable, because there’s no DP/HDMI device connected

Well, it’s all checked “unavailable”, but my tv is currently plugged to my hdmi port

Have you blacklisted something, modified or added files in /etc/modprobe.d/ ?

when was the current kernel installed? In what transaction ID? After transaction 26 ?
If yes, then try sudo dracut -f and also do

 sudo dnf reinstall pipewire\* wireplumber 

 mv ~/.config/pulse ~/.config/pulse_backup
 mv ~/.config/pipewire ~/.config/pipewire_backup
 mv ~/.local/state/wireplumber  ~/.local/state/wireplumber_backup

and reboot.

No, i didn’t modified anything, just tried [SOLVED] Pipewire-pulse no sound on HDMI / Newbie Corner / Arch Linux Forums but stopped after manually testing devices (because no devices, except laptop speakers, played sounds)

And current kernel installed before my swapping manipulations.

If reinstalling nvidia drivers counts as kernel modification, then after 26 transaction i did reinstall kernel

Have you tried booting the previous kernel 6.10.9?
Usually, there should be a second card (card1 ) available.

nstalling the nvidia driver should have no effect. What was updated in transaction 35?

however try the above commands and also rename ~/.config/wireplumber if such directory exists.

is there any output for
rpm -V $( rpm -qa alsa\* pipewire\* pulse\* wireplumber\* )

tried to boot on .9 and .8, nothing changed

Done

Renamed

No output in console after this command

edit: also rebooted after commands and still no effect

Some python packages


According to this image you removed the xorg-x11-drv-nvidia* files. If the nvidia installation was altered it could also impact audio from the nvidia GPU.

Please show us the result of dnf list --installed \*nvidia\*

$ dnf list --installed \*nvidia\*
Installed packages
akmod-nvidia.x86_64                        3:580.82.09-1.fc42 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
kmod-nvidia-6.16.10-200.fc42.x86_64.x86_64 3:580.82.09-1.fc42 @commandline
kmod-nvidia-6.16.8-200.fc42.x86_64.x86_64  3:580.82.09-1.fc42 @commandline
kmod-nvidia-6.16.9-200.fc42.x86_64.x86_64  3:580.82.09-1.fc42 @commandline
nvidia-gpu-firmware.noarch                 20250917-2.fc42    <unknown>
nvidia-modprobe.x86_64                     3:580.82.09-1.fc42 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
nvidia-persistenced.x86_64                 3:580.82.09-1.fc42 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
nvidia-settings.x86_64                     3:580.82.09-1.fc42 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64                 3:580.82.09-1.fc42 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda.x86_64            3:580.82.09-1.fc42 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs.i686         3:580.82.09-1.fc42 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs.x86_64       3:580.82.09-1.fc42 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc.x86_64         3:580.82.09-1.fc42 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686              3:580.82.09-1.fc42 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64            3:580.82.09-1.fc42 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power.x86_64           3:580.82.09-1.fc42 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates

That looks correct according to what I have.

Also just now tried to connect wireless headphones and bluetooth speaker, everything works normally, only hdmi can’t play sound

As i remember HDMI sound worked and displayed correctly when i was installing fedora with usb stick

Well, after following all the guidance about the audio setup maybe it is time for a bigger hammer.

You might do the following just to confirm that it has nothing to do with the nvidia driver.

  1. sudo dnf remove \*nvidia\* --exclude nvidia-gpu-firmware --noautoremove
    to remove all the installed nvidia packages
  2. sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda
    to reinstall the packages and build the driver new
  3. wait a few minutes then reboot so the newly built driver is loaded

Afterward run inxi -Fzxx and post the result. It should show if the nvidia gpu is properly configured for both video and audio in the respective sections.

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Well, i just tried to load Fedora on dGPU only and now my tv plays a sound and displays as i stated in the beginning

I switched gpu with optimus gpu switcher program and envycontrol

But i don’t need to be on dGPU everytime, maybe I can configure this, so audio will still work when i using HDMI?

Until now EnvyControl worked in hybrid mode (desktop used iGPU, but programms, games, etc were allowed to use dGPU).

However, maybe i will find solution to this.

But thank you for helping me out, I very appreciate, that you took the time to look into my problem!

try switching back to hybrid mode. Maybe something was messed up and cleared by reconfiguring bios.

No, switching back to hybrid mode makes GA107 audio device disappear, however this doesn’t affect the video output on the TV, it’s still working as expected

open or closed source drivers?
modinfo -l nvidia

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