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!
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Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 4 weeks agoIf that works, something with the PipeWire state might be weird. Tried deleting pipewire/wireplumber in ~/.local/state followed by a reboot (or restarting pipewire and wireplumber). That should reset it.
beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
tinchs@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Looks like this worked, thank you Max!
beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
You absolute legend, this was it, now my headphones work perfectly, thank you!
rotopenguin@infosec.pub 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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
beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Glad you found it, and glad it worked for you too!
rotopenguin@infosec.pub 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
That makes sense, definitely weirdness. Funny it didn’t bother it the other way around, the other deck is fine 🤔
At any rate, I’m done worrying about it haha