Suddenly There are audio problems all over

Ask Fedora
, ,
1

I was just playing a game and listening to music and my audio glitched out. I rebooted but it won’t come back.

Audio won’t play from browser (Or it is faint and garbled)

Audio wont play from VLC player (Or it is faint and garbled)

Audio will play from Elisa but I cannot select witch audio device it plays through (Only plays out of Nvidia HDMI even if I select another device)

Also

Left and right channels seem to be mixed and one channel seems to be inverted. (If I select to see channels and tune Left or Right off then It sounds a bit better but still plays for both channels)

I have never had any problems with audio before and I am completely confused.

All the above just happen all together suddenly just a few minutes ago.

2

Please give more information about your system … use tags to make clear which version desktop you are using.

Output of inxi -Fzxx also helps.

P.S.
You are not alone with the audio issues :slight_smile:

3

Operating System: Fedora Linux 43
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.22.0
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Kernel Version: 6.18.9-200.fc43.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (30.4 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
Graphics Processor 2: AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor
Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
Product Name: MS-7E47
System Version: 1.0

inxi -Fzxx

bash: inxi: command not found…
Install package ‘inxi’ to provide command ‘inxi’? [N/y] ^C

4

Yeah but, it’s been fine and I changed nothing.

I have 3 audio devices (Nvidia, AMD Ryzen, Bluteooth) and they all have problems now.

5

Did you not make some updates? A kernel or audio dirver/config update can change everything.
I am reading the whole day here … i see the increasing issues … uff … I need to watch a move to distract me :slight_smile:

About inxi have a look here: Inxi | the help to help your selves

1 Like
6

There were updates queued when the audio went haywire. Then when I rebooted the updates installed. But all the audio issues persisted so I rebooted again but no change.

7

I installed inxi

Here is the output

$inxi -Fzxx

System:
Kernel: 6.18.9-200.fc43.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.2.1
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.5.5 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM
Distro: Fedora Linux 43 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Micro-Star product: MS-7E47 v: 1.0
serial: 
Mobo: Micro-Star model: PRO X870-P WIFI (MS-7E47) v: 1.0
serial:  Firmware: UEFI vendor: American Megatrends LLC.
v: 1.A77 date: 09/10/2025
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech G305 Lightspeed Wireless Gaming
Mouse serial:  charge: 100% (should be ignored)
status: discharging
CPU:
Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 9700X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 5
rev: 0 cache: L1: 640 KiB L2: 8 MiB L3: 32 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 605 min/max: 605/3800 boost: enabled cores: 1: 605
2: 605 3: 605 4: 605 5: 605 6: 605 7: 605 8: 605 9: 605 10: 605 11: 605
12: 605 13: 605 14: 605 15: 605 16: 605 bogomips: 121599
Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a
ssse3 svm
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA102 [GeForce RTX 3080 Ti] vendor: EVGA driver: nvidia
v: 580.119.02 arch: Ampere pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
active: DP-4 empty: DP-5,DP-6,HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2208
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Granite Ridge [Radeon Graphics]
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-2 pcie:
speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3,
HDMI-A-1, Writeback-1 bus-ID: 74:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:13c0 temp: 36.0 C
Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 24.1.9 compositor: kwin_wayland
driver: gpu: nv_platform,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: DP-4 model: Acer EI342CKR res: 3440x1440 hz: 120 dpi: 110
diag: 864mm (34")
API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 2 drv: radeonsi
device: 3 drv: swrast gbm: drv: nvidia surfaceless: drv: nvidia wayland:
drv: nvidia x11: drv: nvidia inactive: device-1
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 580.119.02
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
display-ID: :0.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.328 surfaces: N/A device: 0 type: discrete-gpu
driver: nvidia device-ID: 10de:2208 device: 1 type: integrated-gpu
driver: mesa radv device-ID: 1002:13c0 device: 2 type: cpu
driver: mesa llvmpipe device-ID: 10005:0000
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-settings wl: wayland-info
x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA102 High Definition Audio vendor: EVGA
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:1aef
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Radeon High Definition Audio
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s
lanes: 16 bus-ID: 74:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1640
Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Ryzen HD Audio
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s
lanes: 16 bus-ID: 74:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3
API: ALSA v: k6.18.9-200.fc43.x86_64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.10 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: Qualcomm WCN785x Wi-Fi 7 320MHz 2x2 [FastConnect 7800]
vendor: Foxconn Band Simultaneous Wireless driver: ath12k_pci v: N/A pcie:
speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 2 bus-ID: 08:00.0 chip-ID: 17cb:1107
IF: wlp8s0 state: down mac: 
Device-2: Realtek RTL8126 5GbE vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169
v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 1 port: e000 bus-ID: 0b:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8126
IF: enp11s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 
IF-ID-1: wg0-mullvad state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Foxconn / Hon Hai driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 1.1
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-11:4 chip-ID: 0489:e10a
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 5.07 TiB used: 506.84 GiB (9.8%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Crucial model: CT2000P510SSD8 size: 1.82 TiB
speed: 126 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial:  temp: 38.9 C
ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 vendor: Samsung model: BM9C1 1024GB size: 953.87 GiB
speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial:  temp: 34.9 C
ID-3: /dev/sda vendor: Apacer model: APS-SL3N-1T size: 953.87 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial:  temp: 33 C
ID-4: /dev/sdb vendor: SanDisk model: SD8SB8U1T001122 size: 953.87 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial:  temp: 29 C
ID-5: /dev/sdc vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB
size: 465.76 GiB type: USB rev: 3.2 spd: 10 Gb/s lanes: 1 serial: 
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 1.82 TiB used: 380.12 GiB (20.4%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
ID-2: /boot size: 1.9 GiB used: 894.4 MiB (46.0%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 19.3 MiB (3.2%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
ID-4: /home size: 1.82 TiB used: 380.12 GiB (20.4%) 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:
System Temperatures: cpu: 40.6 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 36.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 30.4 GiB used: 7.95 GiB (26.2%)
Processes: 579 Power: uptime: 52m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 258
default: graphical
Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm pm: flatpak pkgs: 17
Compilers: gcc: 15.2.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.3.0 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.40
8

Hello Iselda,
please do everyone, including yourself, a favor.

Click the pencil button under your last post, the answering window will open again.
In that window select all the text with your mouse starting with &inxi -Fzxx
Then click the </> button in the toolbar of the window,

The text will now be formatted, as is mine, so it is readable and searchable on the internet.
Please do this every time somebody asks you to try a command in a terminal, so people here in the forum can help you better. Thanks.

10

what is the output of pw-cli info all?