SOLUTION for Hyperx Cloud 3 headphones not being "plug & play"

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I HAVE to make this tl;dr guide even if I’m not in the best of health condition to do so.
I need it in case I forget in the future, and others also need it if they want to use these headphones either on Fedora or other Distros.

tl;dr

These headphones may not be P&P on Linux because, of course…
They also managed to eat every other output device’s ability to work, so that’s fun. :slight_smile:

I am currently unable to properly describe everything I’ve tried, also because I think almost none of that influenced the “fix”…
Regardless, I’ve left some notes at the bottom of this page just to “show my work”, because why not…

So, the “good enough” solution:

I ended up not using the USB adapter to use them, and it’s fine for me.
It’s plugged in the front panel’s output+input 3.5mm jack hole.

I’ve set the audio as these following screenshots show.
HDMI5 is an Oled monitor, and “Starship” “is” the headphones… as in “they were also called properly with their full name before, but they actually work just and only if set like this”…

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audio - hyperx cloud 3 -not working Screenshot_20260113_132554
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audio - hyperx cloud 3 -not working Screenshot_20260113_132306
audio - hyperx cloud 3 -not working Screenshot_20260113_1323061280×817 130 KB

(If someone knows what these mean and what they do, feel free to teach us all in a comment down here, because I can’t.)

What I also did:

I got to this page:

Which said nothing of importance.

I installed and ran the first 5 commands from this page:

I installed qpwgraph and managed to do nothing with it because to normal people who don’t care it’s utterly incomprehensible.

This last page then -:-

-:- gave me a command which may or may not have helped: systemctl --user restart pipewire{,-pulse} wireplumber …

And now, here’s the obligatory computer’s specs:

~$ inxi -Fzxx
System:
  Kernel: 6.18.4-200.fc43.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.2.1
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.5.4 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM
    Distro: Fedora Linux 43 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME B450-PLUS v: Rev X.0x
    serial: <superuser required> part-nu: SKU Firmware: UEFI
    vendor: American Megatrends v: 3211 date: 08/10/2021
CPU:
  Info: 6-core model: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3+
    rev: 0 cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 3 MiB L3: 32 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 3697 min/max: 561/4654 boost: enabled cores: 1: 3697
    2: 3697 3: 3697 4: 3697 5: 3697 6: 3697 7: 3697 8: 3697 9: 3697 10: 3697
    11: 3697 12: 3697 bogomips: 88800
  Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a
    ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 23 [Radeon RX 6650 XT /
    6700S 6800S] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-2 pcie:
    speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-1 off: DP-2
    empty: DP-3,HDMI-A-1,Writeback-1 bus-ID: 09:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:73ef
  Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 24.1.9 compositor: kwin_wayland
    driver: gpu: amdgpu display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: DP-1 model: Philips 27M2N3500AM res: 2560x1440 hz: 180 dpi: 109
    diag: 685mm (27")
  Monitor-2: DP-2 model: Philips 27M2N8500 res: 2560x1440 dpi: 110
    diag: 678mm (26.7")
  API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi device: 1 drv: swrast
    gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi wayland: drv: radeonsi x11:
    drv: radeonsi
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 25.2.7 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT (radeonsi navi23 LLVM
    21.1.5 DRM 3.64 6.18.4-200.fc43.x86_64) device-ID: 1002:73ef
    display-ID: :0.0
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.328 surfaces: N/A device: 0 type: discrete-gpu
    driver: mesa radv device-ID: 1002:73ef device: 1 type: cpu
    driver: mesa llvmpipe device-ID: 10005:0000
  Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
    de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info x11: xdriinfo,
    xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 09:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab28
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio
    vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s
    lanes: 16 bus-ID: 0b:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487
  API: ALSA v: k6.18.4-200.fc43.x86_64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.9 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: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: ASUSTeK RTL8111H driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: e000 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
  IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 18.43 TiB used: 9.96 TiB (54.0%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Kingston model: SA2000M8500G size: 465.76 GiB
    speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 29.9 C
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST10000NM0046 size: 9.1 TiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> temp: 33 C
  ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Mushkin model: MKNSSDEL2TB size: 1.82 TiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> temp: 21 C
  ID-4: /dev/sdc vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37960G size: 894.25 GiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> temp: 21 C
  ID-5: /dev/sdd vendor: Integral Memory model: V Series SATA SSD 250GB
    size: 232.89 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> temp: 29 C
  ID-6: /dev/sde model: SSD 512GB size: 476.94 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    serial: <filter> temp: 22 C
  ID-7: /dev/sdf vendor: Western Digital model: WD20PURZ-85AKKY0
    size: 1.82 TiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> temp: 28 C
  ID-8: /dev/sdg vendor: Seagate model: ST4000DM004-2U9104 size: 3.64 TiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
  ID-9: /dev/sdh vendor: PNY model: PNY UFD20 size: 14.46 GiB type: USB
    rev: 2.0 spd: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 serial: <filter>
  ID-10: /dev/sdi vendor: PNY model: PNY UFD20 size: 14.46 GiB type: USB
    rev: 2.0 spd: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 serial: <filter>
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 93.13 GiB used: 56.28 GiB (60.4%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
  ID-2: /boot size: 4.5 GiB used: 589.5 MiB (12.8%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-3: /boot/efi size: 190.8 MiB used: 19.3 MiB (10.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
    dev: /dev/zram0
  ID-2: swap-2 type: partition size: 7.37 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 45.9 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 31.0 C
    mem: 26.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0
Info:
  Memory: total: 16 GiB available: 15.52 GiB used: 7.08 GiB (45.6%)
  Processes: 518 Power: uptime: 36m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 258
    default: graphical
  Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm pm: flatpak pkgs: 23
    Compilers: N/A Shell: Bash v: 5.3.0 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.40

  1. I don’t care about fancy Surround 5.0 or whatever (that’s also why these headphones don’t have it), I just care about them working, and doing so well. That said, in the future I’ll have to help my brother, who has a set of speakers with a subwoofer.
    I really hope at least Fedora will become more P&P for audio, because the vast majority of users ever would have just returned the €70 headphones and got another pair. ↩︎

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