I wanted to play a game on my smart tv, so i moved my computer over and connected it up, it worked just fine until i moved it back.
Now it simply wont identify and output or input devices (i have an external microphone). I followed the troubleshooting steps at Fedora Docs for sound issues, and nothing helped, so here’s the results of what diagnostics ive ran:
korumak@Merlyns-PC:~$ systemctl --user status pipewire
● pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service; enabled; 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 Sat 2026-01-31 00:49:05 GMT; 1min 33s ago
Invocation: 6f11a69bd9b64f68bccba2fb5bbdd5de
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire.socket
Main PID: 2455 (pipewire)
Tasks: 3 (limit: 38325)
Memory: 4.9M (peak: 5.4M)
CPU: 32ms
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pipewire.service
└─2455 /usr/bin/pipewire
Jan 31 00:49:05 Merlyns-PC systemd[2429]: Started pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service.
korumak@Merlyns-PC:~$ systemctl --user status pipewire-pulse
● pipewire-pulse.service - PipeWire PulseAudio
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire-pulse.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/user/service.d
└─10-timeout-abort.conf
Active: active (running) since Sat 2026-01-31 00:49:05 GMT; 1min 40s ago
Invocation: ac7a3a87246a4cdb8ad441475639fe3a
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire-pulse.socket
Main PID: 2457 (pipewire-pulse)
Tasks: 3 (limit: 38325)
Memory: 2M (peak: 2.7M)
CPU: 18ms
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pipewire-pulse.service
└─2457 /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse
Jan 31 00:49:05 Merlyns-PC systemd[2429]: Started pipewire-pulse.service - PipeWire PulseAudio.
korumak@Merlyns-PC:~$ systemctl --user status wireplumber
● 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 Sat 2026-01-31 00:49:05 GMT; 1min 46s ago
Invocation: a1df51e17cb84230871f1c1adfd3fd7b
Main PID: 2456 (wireplumber)
Tasks: 9 (limit: 38325)
Memory: 6.7M (peak: 8.5M)
CPU: 141ms
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/wireplumber.service
└─2456 “[wireplumber]”
Jan 31 00:49:05 Merlyns-PC systemd[2429]: Started wireplumber.service - Multimedia Service Session Manager.
Jan 31 00:49:05 Merlyns-PC wireplumber[2456]: [0:00:24.626185552] [2456] INFO Camera camera_manager.cpp:327 libcamera v0.4.0
korumak@Merlyns-PC:~$ groups
korumak wheel audio
korumak@Merlyns-PC:~$
i also have the alsa-info.txt but im not certain how to upload it
You did not say which version of fedora is in use.
If it is Workstation with gnome then opening the settings and selecting sound should show all the available audio inputs & outputs. Maybe the hdmi audio is selected (as it would be when connected to a TV as monitor).
Please show us the output of inxi -Fzxx that you copy & paste as preformatted text. Using the mouse highlight the pasted text then click the </> button on the toolbar above your text.
cant run that, says i dont have the packages and when i try to install them it fails, saying that “All mirrors were tried; Last error: Status code: 404”
This seems to imply something may have gone wrong with the latest kernel update and possibly the related audio software. Especially since the inxi -Fzxx output shows no audio section.
Please try sudo dnf distro-sync --refresh to see if anything changes.
The inxi output should show something like this and there seems to be a lot missing from what you posted.
