I recently installed Fedora 43 KDE on my Asus Vivobook 16. Wonderfully everything works out of the box - headphone jack audio, bluetooth, webcam, built in mic, touch screen. The only thing missing is the built in speaker.
Everything online seems to indicate that this is quite common, but none of the standard solutions seem to work. hdajackretask, changing fastboot off, hda-verb on the card, changing options in config files.
If anyone has advice, or hope, please let me know. Happy to provide whatever I can for anyone willing to help out.
$inxi -A
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Lunar Lake-M HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
API: ALSA v: k6.17.9-300.fc43.x86_64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.9 status: active
Server-2: PulseAudio v: 17.0 status: active
The KDE menu detects when sound is playing through the little animated volume bar, but does not play through the speakers.
Hello Jonny, and welcome to the forum.
I’m sure you have done this already but just to make sure:
When you click on the loudspeaker icon in the system tray a menu opens. In this menu you see all the audio output devices listed. Did you select the internal loudspeaker by clicking on the circle in front of its name?
If I want to use the internal speakers I would have to click the circle on the top line, I am now connected to bluetooth earphones.
But you probably already have done this.
When you connect your headphones does this image change, does headphones get added or does the text speakers change into headphones?
Please open KDE setting by clicking on the middle button of the three in the top right corner, the one with the 2 lines and dots. From the window which appears then make a screenshot with the headphones connected and disconnected. Let’s see what changes and why you don’t get sound through the speakers.
The speakers work? Did you have for example windows on this computer before you installed Fedora?
