No sound coming from fedora system

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Okay so I dual booted fedora 37 on dell inspiron 5402. I instaled sway and after that I messed something up because now I can’t get any sound to play from my laptop’s in-built speakers. Like if I open a youtube video it won’t even play. The moment I connect my earphones the audio starts working normally on the earphones and the video also starts playing. There is no audio coming from the speakers, and for some reason even youtube does not play when it is connected to my laptop speakers. Please tell me what should I do? I’m new here so if there’s anything sort of outputs you need lemme know

(Edit: The sound doesn’t work on the normal gnome interface as well)

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Can you post:
systemctl --user status wireplumber pipewire\*
wpctl status

Thanks

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Hello @themediumguy ,
Welcome to :fedora: !
What @grumpey was asking was to use a terminal to type in the command he quoted to get the answers to your question, if the use of a terminal wasn’t clear.

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Hi I’m sorry for the late response :sweat_smile:

But here's the output for the first command:

● wireplumber.service - Multimedia Service Session Manager
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/wireplumber.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2023-07-20 14:51:31 IST; 2min 26s ago
   Main PID: 1746 (wireplumber)
      Tasks: 4 (limit: 9131)
     Memory: 9.1M
        CPU: 104ms
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/wireplumber.service
             └─1746 /usr/bin/wireplumber

Jul 20 14:51:31 fedora systemd[1600]: Started wireplumber.service - Multimedia Service Session Manager.
Jul 20 14:51:32 fedora wireplumber[1746]: Failed to set scheduler settings: Operation not permitted
Jul 20 14:51:32 fedora wireplumber[1746]: SPA handle 'api.libcamera.enum.manager' could not be loaded; is it installed?
Jul 20 14:51:32 fedora wireplumber[1746]: PipeWire's libcamera SPA missing or broken. libcamera not supported.
Jul 20 14:51:32 fedora wireplumber[1746]: RegisterProfile() failed: org.bluez.Error.NotPermitted
Jul 20 14:51:32 fedora wireplumber[1746]: <WpPortalPermissionStorePlugin:0x561ad2c21190> Failed to call Lookup: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.portal.Error.NotFound: No entry for camera

● pipewire.socket - PipeWire Multimedia System Socket
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.socket; disabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2023-07-20 14:51:31 IST; 2min 26s ago
   Triggers: ● pipewire.service
     Listen: /run/user/1000/pipewire-0 (Stream)
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/pipewire.socket

Jul 20 14:51:31 fedora systemd[1600]: Listening on pipewire.socket - PipeWire Multimedia System Socket.

● 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
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2023-07-20 14:51:31 IST; 2min 26s ago
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire.socket
   Main PID: 1743 (pipewire)
      Tasks: 2 (limit: 9131)
     Memory: 5.3M
        CPU: 40ms
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pipewire.service
             └─1743 /usr/bin/pipewire

Jul 20 14:51:31 fedora systemd[1600]: Started pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service.

Here's the output for the second command:

PipeWire 'pipewire-0' [0.3.71, nemesis@fedora, cookie:3950355101]
 └─ Clients:
        31. uresourced                          [0.3.71, nemesis@fedora, pid:1716]
        32. WirePlumber                         [0.3.71, nemesis@fedora, pid:1746]
        33. WirePlumber [export]                [0.3.71, nemesis@fedora, pid:1746]
        43. xdg-desktop-portal                  [0.3.71, nemesis@fedora, pid:2245]
        71. wpctl                               [0.3.71, nemesis@fedora, pid:4375]

Audio
 ├─ Devices:
 │      44. Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller [alsa]
 │  
 ├─ Sinks:
 │      45. Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller HDMI / DisplayPort 3 Output [vol: 1.00]
 │      46. Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller HDMI / DisplayPort 2 Output [vol: 1.00]
 │      47. Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller HDMI / DisplayPort 1 Output [vol: 1.00]
 │  *   48. Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller Speaker + Headphones [vol: 1.00]
 │  
 ├─ Sink endpoints:
 │  
 ├─ Sources:
 │      49. Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller Headset Mono Microphone + Headphones Stereo Microphone [vol: 1.00]
 │  *   50. Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller Digital Microphone [vol: 1.00]
 │  
 ├─ Source endpoints:
 │  
 └─ Streams:

Video
 ├─ Devices:
 │      39. Integrated_Webcam_HD                [v4l2]
 │      40. Integrated_Webcam_HD                [v4l2]
 │  
 ├─ Sinks:
 │  
 ├─ Sink endpoints:
 │  
 ├─ Sources:
 │  *   41. Integrated_Webcam_HD (V4L2)        
 │  
 ├─ Source endpoints:
 │  
 └─ Streams:

Settings
 └─ Default Configured Node Names:
         0. Audio/Sink    alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3-platform-skl_hda_dsp_generic.HiFi__hw_sofhdadsp__sink
         1. Audio/Source  alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1f.3-platform-skl_hda_dsp_generic.HiFi__Mic1__source.4
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Tiger Lake, Smart Sound… This audio chip is not working normally in Linux. More info: here

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Out of curiosity can you make a new user and see if they have the same issues with sound?

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Issue still persists

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But I don’t understand it was working perfectly before, why did it stop suddenly?

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Maybe you had a different computer/laptop? Still, if the sound does not work even on the standard Fedora Workstation, then most likely this indicates a lack of support from the Fedora 37 kernel. Try upgrading to Fedora 38. If that doesn’t work, then try other distributions with a more recent kernel and audio stack (for example , Arch Linux). And if it doesn’t work on Arch… Then only Windows.

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If it worked before, it should work after updates, regressive breakage is something that usually doesn’t get through, it tends to be treated as a blocker if you break someones sound.
In your above posting of the Pipewire and WirePlumber commands, you can see that your devices are being recognized and even defaults are set. Check the settings with pavucontrol.

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Hi thank you for responding! No I was talking about this device only. The isses first started when I was messing around with sway, and was trying to set up something. I think that might be the issue. However uninstalling sway would probably not fix it. AFter updating to Fedora 38 I still see no changes :*(

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Did you try a Fedora Workstation? If this issue is exist, this is problem of device.