Recently I lost audio on an update to F33. I didn’t worry about it then and thought maybe the next update would fix it. I later realized that the speaker and headphone output was just really low to the point of being almost inaudible. I upgraded to F34 thinking that that may fix it but it didn’t. Here is what I’ve tried so far to no avail.
Used alsamixer and cranked up all of the volume (selected my card with f6)
Used pavucontrol to do the same, still no or little sound
Uninstalled pipewire so it was just alsa installed
Ran “sudo alsactl init”
Here are my symptoms. Low audio on the laptop speakers and headphones but oddly bluetooth headphones work a little better. “aplay -D pipewire -c 2 sound.wav” and “aplay -D default -c 2 sound.wav” play with the same low volume. But “aplay -D sysdefault:CARD=broadwellrt286 -c 2 sound.wav” comes out with the normal volume so i know that the card must be working and its just a config problem.
Here is the output of aplay devices
[tony@enchiridion ~]$ aplay -L
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pipewire
PipeWire Sound Server
default
Default ALSA Output (currently PipeWire Media Server)
hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=0
HDA Intel HDMI, HDMI 0
HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=1
HDA Intel HDMI, HDMI 1
HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=2
HDA Intel HDMI, HDMI 2
HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=3
HDA Intel HDMI, HDMI 3
HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=4
HDA Intel HDMI, HDMI 4
HDMI Audio Output
sysdefault:CARD=broadwellrt286
broadwell-rt286,
Default Audio Device
[tony@enchiridion ~]$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 10: HDMI 4 [HDMI 4]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: broadwellrt286 [broadwell-rt286], device 0: System Playback/Capture (*) []
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: broadwellrt286 [broadwell-rt286], device 1: Offload0 Playback (*) []
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: broadwellrt286 [broadwell-rt286], device 2: Offload1 Playback (*) []
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
I’m stumped. Any help from the community would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!