I’ve been using Bazzite for about a week or two and loving it and then one day I lost all audio. I’m not sure exactly when it occurred as I fell asleep last time I remember the audio working. Any help or being pointed in the right direction appreciated, unfortunately I’m not as computer savvy as I once was long ago.
Try typing into terminal
ujust restart-pipewire
maybe that will help
unfortunately not, but I appreciate the reply
Since Bazzite is based on Fedora, the Fedora troubleshooting guide for sound might be worth running through. Don’t know if it’ll help, but it’s here:
EDIT: and I’ll add a comment that the sound settings on Bazzite/Fedora seem awfully obscure to me. A month or so ago, I, too lost my sound. To get it back, I basically went into System Settings > Sound, randomly selected different devices, changed their output dropdowns at the right and hit the Test button. I think the biggest issue is that the device names are meaningless to me. For my Audioengine A2+ speakers, I finally figured out they were listed as a PCM2704 device. I chose the Analog Stereo Output. I’ve seen a few random posts that the Pro Audio output might be better, but I don’t want to change something that works (EDIT2: I just found a note that since I’m connected to the speakers with USB, I should be using the Digital output, so I changed to that). I did use the Rename button at the top to rename that device after the speakers so I can see what’s being used easier.
I gave up and tried to reinstall , unfortunately now I can’t load the boot from usb which I never had trouble the first time. Unfortunately I think I’m going to have to give up and go back to windows
Type in:
pactl list sinks
in your Konsole and see what it says. It should list all available sinks (sinks are loads such as speakers, headphones, etc).
To see what the active sink is:
pactl get-default-sink
This will tell you which load/sink that bazzite is currently using.
To force a change to the sink of your choice:
pactl set-default-sink yoursinknamehere
Where is says yoursinknamehere, you insert whatever follows the name: line that you see when you run pactl list sinks. Use the letters exactly as they appear after the name: line.
An example is my HDMI sink:
alsa_output.pci-0000_03_00.1.hdmi-stereo-extra2
Because that’s what appears after the name: line for my HDMI sink. Again, you’ll find your available sinks using:
pactl list sinks
See if that gets you anywhere?