Description of problem: There is no sound being played through a monitor connected to a display port. The sound configuration in KDE shows a bunch of HDMI devices and none of them are working. There are no display port devices in the list. Sometimes sound is working after a reboot, sometimes it isn't, sometimes I can get it to work by switching between devices. It's totally random. If the sound is basically working, when there has been no sound being played for a few seconds and then sound is being played again --- like pausing when watching a movie --- it takes a while before the sound comes back. Please make it so that the sound doesn't cut out like that. The sound needs to continue right away when movie is unpaused. It used to work that way. I don't understand why you forced pulseaudio upon the users who never wanted it, then took many too many years to get pulseaudio half-way working, and now you have replaced it with this crap called pipewire and start annoying everyone all over again. Please stay with something that works! What do you suggest how I get the sound working again?
Workaround: dnf install pulseaudio --allowerasing dnf remove --setopt protected_packages= pipewire After that, kill all pipewire processes and start pulseaudio manually as the user who wants audio. After that, audio works again. Just don't ask me what the fix is when you want to use gnome --- but that's unusable anyway.
A better workaround: sudo dnf swap pipewire-pulse pulseaudio --allowerasing And then sudo dnf remove pipewire-alsa Then: systemctl --user restart pipewire systemctl --user restart pulseaudio
Thanks, I used the workaround as far as possible. Audio not coming back right away after a period of quietness remains. It's really annoying and also, for example, prevents notification sounds from being heared because the sound has stopped long before audio has re-enabled itself.
> Audio not coming back right away after a period of quietness remains. It's really annoying and also, for example, prevents notification sounds from being heared because the sound has stopped long before audio has re-enabled itself. It is likely a driver bug.
As to the driver bug, is there's nothing I could do about it? As to pipewire not working, it still doesn't work in Fedora 35. Even worse, after upgrading from 34 to 35, pipewire was automatically reinstalled, and it still doesn't detect any devices. I had again to switch back to pulse to get sound back.
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