Comment on [Help] Swapped nvme from old deck into new deck, now headphones don't work
tinchs@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I have the same issue, and I also believe it’s software related.
Only temporary fix I’ve found so far is changing the output but not to another output. In Desktop Mode, from the Audio Volume menu > Three lines switch to Pro Audio and back to default a couple of times until it fixes.
Unfortunately, this only lasts until a restart.
USB headset via a docking station works no problem.
Pro audio and back? Ok I don’t remember seeing that specifically.
I did go into desktop mode and fiddle with the audio mixer, turning the speakers and headphones on and off, etc. Never got any sound. But I’ll dig deeper. Maybe this combined with the other person who responded to you, can get me up and running.
Can’t try it till this evening though.
I did those steps to no avail, unfortunately.
However, deleting the pipewire and wireplumber folders and restarting did the trick!
Ok thanks I’ll check it out tonight. That menu definitely already looks different than what I was seeing, from my memory anyway
Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 1 week ago
If that works, something with the PipeWire state might be weird. Tried deleting pipewire/wireplumber in
~/.local/statefollowed by a reboot (or restarting pipewire and wireplumber). That should reset it.rotopenguin@infosec.pub 6 days ago
👆 this sounds like the most probable fix. OP buried a very critical factoid - they moved the drive between OLED and LCD models. The systems have some significant hardware differences (as evidenced by the Windows drivers changing so much that Valve took a long time to update em). Somewhere, Pipewire has squirreled away details about routing or preferred devices from the old system.
Heck, there might be journalct log entries being generated you plug into the headphone jack. Pipewire could already be trying to tell you exactly what’s wrong.
beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
This was the solution, deleting the pipewire and wireplumber folders and restarting was the solution.
To be clear though, I definitely swapped from one LCD model to another, so I’m still not sure why it was failing 🤷♂️
Glad it’s fixed though!
tinchs@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Sorry, could you please give more context on what you deleted and where?
I tried looking for that ~/.local/ folder but can’t seem to find it :/ I’m still new to Linux/Steam OS
rotopenguin@infosec.pub 6 days ago
Huh. Mmmaybe the LCD model has board revisions that are still different enough to trip things up? It’s definitely a bug to have wireplumber not “do the right thing no matter what hardware it booted up on today”, it would probably take a Valve engineer to chase that down and submit a patch.
beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I’m op, not the guy you responded to. But I might try this as well. I wasn’t able to make mine work on desktop mode, but maybe something else is fishy in there. Thanks!
tinchs@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Looks like this worked, thank you Max!
beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
You absolute legend, this was it, now my headphones work perfectly, thank you!