Microphone not working Fedora 43 on Framework laptop

Ask Fedora
1

My microphone has stopped working in all applicaitons on Fedora Workstation 43. I see the icon showing the microphone in the system tray, but there is no audio recorded using web apps or even Cheese or sound recorder. I am not sure where to begin with the diagnosis, but I checked the Framework discussion boards and they had a diagnostic script that was supposed to identify issues. The output points to wireplumber issues. The relevant output of the script seems to be as follows:

  1. Recent audio system logs
    Service wireplumber lifecycle events:
    :warning: Feb 01 21:51:12: Stopping wireplumber.service - Multimedia Service Session Manager…
    :warning: Feb 01 21:51:12: Stopped wireplumber.service - Multimedia Service Session Manager.
    Feb 01 21:51:12: Started wireplumber.service - Multimedia Service Session Manager.

Service pipewire lifecycle events:
:warning: Feb 01 21:51:12: Stopping pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service…
:warning: Feb 01 21:51:12: Stopped pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service.
Feb 01 21:51:12: Started pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service.

Service pipewire-pulse lifecycle events:
:warning: Feb 01 21:51:12: Stopping pipewire-pulse.service - PipeWire PulseAudio…
:warning: Feb 01 21:51:12: Stopped pipewire-pulse.service - PipeWire PulseAudio.
Feb 01 21:51:12: Started pipewire-pulse.service - PipeWire PulseAudio.

2

Welcome to Fedora @kseise

Please try to boot with an older kernel (press ESC while booting), and give feedback if the microphone still is not recognized.

If recognized please give us the information as explained below:

This would help to see the working Hardware so we do have something to compare with, while debugging the broken setup.