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Audio Input Devices (microphone) disappeared after pipewire audio server update #9234

Open deeplow opened 5 months ago

deeplow commented 5 months ago

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Qubes OS release

4.2

Brief summary

After the update that changed the audio server to pipewire, I lost my microhone.

Before (pulseaudio) After (pipewire)
audio-available audio-unavailable

On a dell XPS 9305 (I believe)

Steps to reproduce

  1. probably have a specific laptop that has the issue
  2. be on the latest update (aka. Qubes with pipewire)

Expected behavior

Microphone exists.

Actual behavior

Microphone does not exist.

Notes

I was able to get the microphone back with the convenient sudo qubes-dom0-update --switch-audio-server-to=pulseaudio. I feel guilty beause I should have tested this when Marek posted it on the testing-team, but I didn't because I was busy and so now probably others are affected as well.

marmarek commented 5 months ago

Does the issue persist after reboot too?

marmarek commented 5 months ago

Somebody claimed to have similar issue, related to kernel config change: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/wireplumber/-/issues/642#note_2380362. Which kernel do you have in dom0?

deeplow commented 5 months ago

Does the issue persist after reboot too?

Unfortunately it does. I have rebooted a couple of times since the issue happened and I was still without a microphone.

Which kernel do you have in dom0?

6.6.29-1. I don't think I've changed anything about the dom0 kernel. Do you want me to test the other kernels?

marmarek commented 5 months ago

Yes, try maybe kernel-latest? Check also if you have alsa-sof-firmware package installed in dom0.

deeplow commented 5 months ago

Yes, try maybe kernel-latest?

Done. Didn't help.

Check also if you have alsa-sof-firmware package installed in dom0.

It's installed.

deeplow commented 4 months ago

By accident I did a call on the system with pipewire and surprisingly when attached to the qube, the microphone worked, even though it's not listed in the input devices.