I installed kde onto a chromebook today and somehow when trying to watch youtube no audio was coming from the speaker. The audio icon in the corner tells me no output device is found. I have no idea how that works when it’s a laptop with speakers built in, but I’m at a loss for how to actually listen to things on this.
If you right click on that icon what options come up?
If I right-click it simply tells me no audio input or output is detected, and gives me the options to go into the settings, which looks like this
Hmmm… Wondering if the “Built-in Audio” needs to be turned on…
There is no option to turn it on. The drop-down menu only gives the “Off” option.
Looks like you are going to have to dig deeper. I am not familiar with the settings in KDE and where you can find the mixer and all that.
Maybe see if you have KMix installed and if not install it.
Now that I have kmix installed what am I supposed to do with it?
I guess run it and see if there is an option to turn the output to speakers on.
There is a video link here, but I don’t know how good it is because the video is 8 years old.
Crap, I just realized you have no sound. Maybe you can turn closed captioning on.
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I am on MATE, which is a different desktop environment. For me, it is just a matter of going to the menu, going to “Sound and Video” and then choosing “Sound”. That gets me to where I can choose the proper output. Of course your issue could be something like a missing package as well. Maybe someone with more experience in KDE can chime in.
Either I’m not completely following or the options provided here and in the video (which I’m able to watch on my main PC thankfully) are not available to me. If by “menu” you mean system settings, I have the same options I already had, which are to say very limited. Here is some of the tabs available to me in kmix
I saw where he right clicked on the KMix icon and then chose “audio setup”. Does that work for you?
I am on MATE so my menu is in the bottom left corner of the desktop, on the panel. Since using KDE your setup may be completely different. When I click on the menu I then get a bunch of options like Accessories, Education, Graphics, Internet, etc. One of the options is Sound and Video and then the sub menu has a choice for Sound. But as I said I am not familiar with the layout in KDE. I just saw in the video where he was getting to similar setting in KMix. I could be way off base. Just trying to help but frankly I am a bit out of my league since I use MATE.
I just want to say to keep checking back here and maybe someone who has more wisdom than I will chime in. This is a big community and maybe someone else has had the same exact issue and knows the solution.
Thanks for trying at least. I can’t lie, it feels kind of hopeless at this point since I’ve been at this for hours and seemingly nobody on the internet besides me has had this issue. There was someone else typing for a while but that never manifested so who knows if I’ll be able to figure out how to do something as basic as listen to music.
It would help if you could provide more info about the HW.
Please post the output of inxi -MAa, fpaste --printonly --audioinfo and
sudo journalctl --no-hostname --no-pager -b -k -g snd as preformatted text. Copy and paste the output and mark with the </> symbol or use three ` or ~ symbols to open a text block, copy the text and close with the same three symbols.
e.g.
```
$ fpaste --printonly --audioinfo
output of command
```
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Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Google product: Kled v: rev7
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 9 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Google model: Kindred v: rev7 serial: <superuser required>
part-nu: sku1 UEFI: coreboot v: MrChromebox-2509.4 date: 11/30/2025
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH-LP cAVS driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
alternate: snd_soc_avs,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
chip-ID: 8086:02c8 class-ID: 0401
API: ALSA v: k6.17.9-300.fc43.x86_64 status: kernel-api
tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.9 status: active with: 1: wireplumber
status: active 2: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 3: pw-jack type: plugin
tools: pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Server-2: PulseAudio v: 17.0 status: active with: pulseaudio-alsa
type: plugin tools: pacat,pactl,pavucontrol
Gathering system info ......
=== fpaste 0.5.0.0 System Information ===
* OS Release (lsb_release -ds):
"Fedora Linux 43 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)"
* Kernel (uname -r):
6.17.9-300.fc43.x86_64
* Kernel cmdline (cat /proc/cmdline):
BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,gpt2)/vmlinuz-6.17.9-300.fc43.x86_64 root=UUID=59711979-d4ea-4baf-ada1-21a34a5688df ro rootflags=subvol=root rd.luks.uuid=luks-bf10e27b-4d23-48ba-a158-8e3f07a0a3c5 rhgb quiet snd-intel-dspcfg.dsp_driver=1
* PCI Audio devices (lspci | grep -i -E 'audio' | cut -b1-7 | xargs -i lspci -vnnks {} | grep -v "<access denied>"):
00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation Comet Lake PCH-LP cAVS [8086:02c8]
DeviceName: Multimedia audio controller
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:7270]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 153
Memory at cede0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Memory at cee00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
Kernel modules: snd_soc_avs, snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl, snd_hda_intel
* Audio devices (cat /proc/asound/cards):
0 [PCH ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
HDA Intel PCH at 0xcede0000 irq 153
* User audio services (systemctl --user --no-pager status wireplumber pipewire* | sed "s/$(hostname)/ahost/"):
● wireplumber.service - Multimedia Service Session Manager
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/wireplumber.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/user/service.d
└─10-timeout-abort.conf
Active: active (running) since Sun 2025-12-07 20:44:39 PST; 1h 26min ago
Invocation: dd5750b4bdcb46658353432294ea43ee
Main PID: 1916 (wireplumber)
Tasks: 9 (limit: 9217)
Memory: 6.9M (peak: 8.9M, swap: 996K, swap peak: 1020K)
CPU: 7.161s
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/wireplumber.service
└─1916 /usr/bin/wireplumber
Dec 07 20:44:40 ahost wireplumber[1916]: [0:00:31.233037854] [1988] INFO Camera camera_manager.cpp:220 Adding camera '\_SB_.PCI0.XHCI.RHUB.HS07-7:1.0-04f2:b6dc' for pipeline handler uvcvideo
Dec 07 20:47:36 ahost wireplumber[1916]: wp-event-dispatcher: <WpAsyncEventHook:0x557f44092b70> failed: <WpSiStandardLink:0x557f44259010> link failed: some node was destroyed before the link was created
Dec 07 20:48:27 ahost wireplumber[1916]: wp-event-dispatcher: <WpAsyncEventHook:0x557f440abf80> failed: failed to activate item: Object activation aborted: proxy destroyed
Dec 07 20:51:51 ahost wireplumber[1916]: wp-event-dispatcher: <WpAsyncEventHook:0x557f44092b70> failed: <WpSiStandardLink:0x557f44249460> link failed: 1 of 1 PipeWire links failed to activate
Dec 07 20:52:38 ahost wireplumber[1916]: wp-event-dispatcher: <WpAsyncEventHook:0x557f44092b70> failed: <WpSiStandardLink:0x557f44263960> link failed: some node was destroyed before the link was created
Dec 07 21:00:21 ahost wireplumber[1916]: wp-event-dispatcher: <WpAsyncEventHook:0x557f44092b70> failed: <WpSiStandardLink:0x557f4425eb80> link failed: some node was destroyed before the link was created
Dec 07 21:01:25 ahost wireplumber[1916]: wp-event-dispatcher: <WpAsyncEventHook:0x557f44092b70> failed: <WpSiStandardLink:0x557f44258de0> link failed: 1 of 1 PipeWire links failed to activate
Dec 07 21:36:28 ahost wireplumber[1916]: wp-event-dispatcher: <WpAsyncEventHook:0x557f44092b70> failed: <WpSiStandardLink:0x557f44256b40> link failed: some node was destroyed before the link was created
Dec 07 21:59:43 ahost wireplumber[1916]: wp-event-dispatcher: <WpAsyncEventHook:0x557f44092b70> failed: <WpSiStandardLink:0x557f44246bb0> link failed: 1 of 1 PipeWire links failed to activate
Dec 07 22:08:53 ahost wireplumber[1916]: wp-event-dispatcher: <WpAsyncEventHook:0x557f44092b70> failed: <WpSiStandardLink:0x557f44242870> link failed: 1 of 1 PipeWire links failed to activate
● pipewire.socket - PipeWire Multimedia System Sockets
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.socket; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sun 2025-12-07 20:44:38 PST; 1h 26min ago
Invocation: ad52e8b5dcc04bf785d4179eaa30fac4
Triggers: ● pipewire.service
Listen: /run/user/1000/pipewire-0 (Stream)
/run/user/1000/pipewire-0-manager (Stream)
Dec 07 20:44:38 ahost systemd[1615]: Listening on pipewire.socket - PipeWire Multimedia System Sockets.
● pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service; disabled; preset: disabled)
Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service.d
└─00-uresourced.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/user/service.d
└─10-timeout-abort.conf
Active: active (running) since Sun 2025-12-07 20:44:39 PST; 1h 26min ago
Invocation: 27e85df8a0f64e4fba33a6077d015f56
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire.socket
Main PID: 1915 (pipewire)
Tasks: 3 (limit: 9217)
Memory: 6.5M (peak: 8.6M, swap: 1.8M, swap peak: 1.8M)
CPU: 1.076s
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pipewire.service
└─1915 /usr/bin/pipewire
Dec 07 20:44:39 ahost systemd[1615]: Started pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service.
Dec 07 20:44:44 ahost pipewire[1915]: mod.raop-sink: sess.latency.msec 250.000000 should be an integer multiple of rtp.ptime 7.981859
Dec 07 21:30:34 ahost pipewire[1915]: mod.raop-sink: sess.latency.msec 250.000000 should be an integer multiple of rtp.ptime 7.981859
Dec 07 21:47:06 ahost pipewire[1915]: mod.raop-sink: sess.latency.msec 250.000000 should be an integer multiple of rtp.ptime 7.981859 ```
```Dec 07 20:44:09 kernel: Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,gpt2)/vmlinuz-6.17.9-300.fc43.x86_64 root=UUID=59711979-
d4ea-4baf-ada1-21a34a5688df ro rootflags=subvol=root rd.luks.uuid=luks-bf10e27b-4d23-48ba-a158-8e3f07a0a3c5 rh
gb quiet snd-intel-dspcfg.dsp_driver=1
Dec 07 20:44:09 kernel: Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,gpt2)/vmlinuz-6.17.9-300.fc43.x86_64 root=UUID=59
711979-d4ea-4baf-ada1-21a34a5688df ro rootflags=subvol=root rd.luks.uuid=luks-bf10e27b-4d23-48ba-a158-8e3f07a0
a3c5 rhgb quiet snd-intel-dspcfg.dsp_driver=1
Dec 07 20:44:24 kernel: snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops intel_audio_component_bind_ops [i9
15])```
this was kind of a pain in the ass to format but i hope its still helpfulCurious if there is a headphone jack and can you get audio output from that…
Just taking a quick look it appears that the things that are supposed to be running are in fact running.
the problem seems to be that two competing sound servers are installed on the system.
pulseaudio and pipewire are active at the same time. do not install pulseaudio!
to recover run
sudo dnf install pipewire-pulseaudio --allowerasing
and then restart the system.
I did that and nothing changed. It still says no output or input is found.