No sound after F41 update on KDE

pipewire, pipewire-pulse and wireplumber are enabled and running but show warnings/errors on dealing with alsa. Level indicators are moving when sound is playing but no sound out of speakers or headphones. Sound driver is Intel Tiger Lake. It was perfectly working on F40. thanks for your help.

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Added audio, f41, pipewire, wireplumber

You have not provided a lot of information. Where are you seeing these warning and errors please share.

Post the ourput of inxi -Fzxx and look for errors in the system journal.

Ak, ok. Sorry

System:
  Kernel: 6.11.7-300.fc41.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 2.43.1-2.fc41
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.2.3 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM
    Distro: Fedora Linux 41 (KDE Plasma)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 20XW0056PG v: ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: 20XW0056PG v: SDK0J40697 WIN
    serial: <superuser required> part-nu: LENOVO_MT_20XW_BU_Think_FM_ThinkPad
    X1 Carbon Gen 9 UEFI: LENOVO v: N32ET84W (1.60 ) date: 04/05/2023
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 41.5 Wh (100.0%) condition: 41.5/57.0 Wh (72.9%)
    volts: 17.3 min: 15.4 model: Sunwoda 5B10W13975 serial: <filter>
    status: full
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: 11th Gen Intel Core i7-1165G7 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Tiger Lake rev: 1 cache: L1: 320 KiB L2: 5 MiB L3: 12 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 400 min/max: 400/4700 cores: 1: 400 2: 400 3: 400 4: 400
    5: 400 6: 400 7: 400 8: 400 bogomips: 44851
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] vendor: Lenovo
    driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-12.1 ports: active: HDMI-A-1,eDP-1
    empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, DP-4, HDMI-A-2, HDMI-A-3 bus-ID: 00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:9a49
  Device-2: Syntek Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-4:3 chip-ID: 174f:2454
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.14 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.4
    compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
    dri: iris gpu: i915 d-rect: 6400x3600 display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 pos: top-right res: 3840x2160 size: N/A
  Monitor-2: eDP-1 pos: bottom-l res: 2560x1440 size: N/A
  API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: iris device: 1 drv: swrast gbm:
    drv: iris surfaceless: drv: iris wayland: drv: iris x11: drv: iris
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.2.7 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel Xe Graphics (TGL GT2)
    device-ID: 8086:9a49 display-ID: :0.0
  API: Vulkan v: 1.3.296 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland device: 0
    type: integrated-gpu driver: N/A device-ID: 8086:9a49 device: 1 type: cpu
    driver: N/A device-ID: 10005:0000
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio vendor: Lenovo
    driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a0c8
  API: ALSA v: k6.11.7-300.fc41.x86_64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.6 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.3
    chip-ID: 8086:a0f0
  IF: wlp0s20f3 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter driver: r8152 type: USB
    rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 2-2:2 chip-ID: 0bda:8153
  IF: enp0s13f0u2 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: ip_vti0 state: down mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-2: wwan0 state: down mac: N/A
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 658.07 GiB (69.0%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVL21T0HCLR-00BL7
    size: 953.87 GiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 36.9 C
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 952.28 GiB used: 657.76 GiB (69.1%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
  ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 283.3 MiB (29.1%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 37.8 MiB (6.3%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
  ID-4: /home size: 952.28 GiB used: 657.76 GiB (69.1%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
    dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  Src: /sys System Temperatures: cpu: 58.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 4552 fan-2: 4566
  Power: 12v: N/A 5v: 5 3.3v: N/A vbat: N/A
Info:
  Memory: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 31.06 GiB used: 6.76 GiB (21.8%)
  Processes: 325 Power: uptime: 9h 0m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 256
    target: graphical (5) default: graphical
  Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm Compilers: clang: 17 alt: 18
    gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.32 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.36

and now, some errors during boot from journalctl

Nov 17 10:31:00 banana wireplumber[2313]: spa.bluez5: BlueZ system service is not available
Nov 17 10:31:00 banana wireplumber[2313]: [0:00:29.141836158] [2313]  INFO Camera camera_manager.cpp:325 libcamera v0.3.2
Nov 17 10:31:00 banana wireplumber[2313]: wp-event-dispatcher: <WpAsyncEventHook:0x55fd741ecdc0> failed: <WpSiStandardLink:0x55fd742b6c30> link failed: some node was destroyed before the link was created
Nov 17 10:31:00 banana wireplumber[2313]: spa.alsa: Failed to enable UCM device Mic1: no UCM verb set
Nov 17 10:31:00 banana wireplumber[2313]: spa.alsa: Failed to enable UCM device Speaker: no UCM verb set
Nov 17 10:31:00 banana systemd[2030]: Starting plasma-ksplash.service - Splash screen 

shown during boot… and more

Nov 17 11:06:44 banana wireplumber[5920]: spa.alsa: Failed to enable UCM device HDMI1: no UCM verb set
Nov 17 11:06:44 banana wireplumber[5920]: spa.alsa: Failed to enable UCM device Mic1: no UCM verb set
Nov 17 11:06:44 banana wireplumber[5920]: spa.alsa: Failed to enable UCM device Mic2: no UCM verb set
Nov 17 11:06:44 banana wireplumber[5920]: spa.alsa: Failed to enable UCM device Headphones: no UCM verb set
Nov

I fixed you posts to use pre-formatted text (the </> button) so that it is easier to read the info.

I think this is an example of the error that is important.

spa.alsa: Failed to enable UCM device Mic1: no UCM verb set

I do not know enough about UCM to know how to fix.
But I did find this post that may help you https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=249900&p=4

Hi there, thanks for pointing me to that thread and into the right direction: the interaction between pulseaudio and alsa. Unfortunately pulseaudio is being (or has has been already) replaced by pipewire, and I’m not that knowledgeable on linux to understand the configuration differences between those two. I was looking here

and the conf files on /usr/share/pipewire … but well, … I’m lost !
Help is really welcome

Solved. Simply installed alsa-firmware and reboot. All the Tiger Lake sound points were replaced and after tweaking now sound plays out of the speakers. Ouf !
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thanks Barry !