Hi there.
I swapped the drive because my old steam deck is the “good” one, the first one we bought. My wife has been using it so much lately, we decided to get a second one. She doesn’t need a 2TB drive, so I swapped it with the 512GB one that came with the “new” deck.
Why not just give her the new deck? It’s screen is cracked, and it has other issues I’m going to fix. I want her to have the nice one.
The issue is software related, the headphones work fine with the old nvme. Likewise, I slapped a 256GB 2280 drive in there, did a fresh steam install, and it works fine.
Things I’ve tried: Restarting with headphones plugged in.
Rapidly changing between outputs in the settings.
Going into desktop mode and manually fiddling with the headphones in the audio settings.
So far nothing works.
I don’t want to factory reset my Deck, but I will if I have to. My next step is to do a system repair using the install media, to see if it finds and fixes anything. But it gives a warning about potential data loss if it fails. So first, I am running rescuzilla and backing up the entire drive. I don’t have a spare nvme big enough to test that backup, so it’s not really a backup, but, that’s where I’m at.
Does anyone else have any suggestions?
Thanks
tinchs@lemmy.world 3 days 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.
Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 3 days ago
If 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.rotopenguin@infosec.pub 3 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 3 days 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 2 days ago
Looks like this worked, thank you Max!
beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
You absolute legend, this was it, now my headphones work perfectly, thank you!
beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
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.
tinchs@lemmy.world 3 days ago
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It’s in there, for some reason it won’t let me take a screenshot while that menu is open… You should see Default (selected) and Pro Audio.
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Looks like this once you switch to Pro, then I go back to default and it fixes after a couple back and forth