Hello, first of all I would like to clarify that I am new to Linux and new to this forum so please do let me know if I am breaking any rules and I will make any necessary corrections
I just installed Fedora 34 on my HP EliteBook 8440p notebook (no dualboot) and everything seems to be working fine except the sound out of the laptop’s speakers. I have read several forums and have come to the conclusion that the problem is that AlsaMixer has PipeWire selected as the default sound card vs HDA Intel but I have no clue how to set this up in Fedora. Below are a number of steps I followed:
In the Settings/Sound panel, only “Headphones - Built In Audio” is listed, so I can’t select the external speakers.
I launched AlsaMixer throught the terminal, PipeWire is being used as the default sound card.
I pressed F6 to select the correct sound card, selected HDA Intel MID. After selecting HDA Intel MID I can successfully see all Input/Output devices available but external speakers are muted by default.
I manually un-muted external speakers and turned the volume up and this works perfect…external speakers work fine:
UDATE 1:
I was able to find the process to unsintall PipeWire in the follwing URL: Changes/DefaultPipeWire
I have opened up AlsaMixer through the terminal and PipeWire is gone, but no sound card is selected as default (see image below), I still have to press F6 to select HDA Intel MID sound card, unmute the main speakers (steps 3 & 4 from my initial post) and will still go back to the default sound card once I exit AlsaMixer and Terminal.
So I still need help with setting up HDI Intel MD as the default sound card in AlsaMixer.
UPDATE 2 & SOLVED: I installed PuseAudio Control with the following command:
$ sudo dnf install pavucontrol
Once installed, I launched pavucontrol (PulseAudio Control) and manually selected the defult output…I finally have audio through the external speakers and full controll over all input/output ports of my computer. I am forced to use PulseAudio Control app vs Settings/Sound but this doesn’t bother me one bit.
I hope other people find this helpful, throughout what I was able to research, I see a lot of Linux users go through this same issue but this seems to be the easiest process to fix the problem…three easy steps:
Launch AlsaMixer via the Termial to verify PipeWire is seleted as the default sound card: