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[fixed] Anyone else having sound volume issues with pipewire-pulse, linux 6.5.5? (self.archlinux)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by jeroentbt to c/[email protected]

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Hey,

After an update just now (was about 20 days since the previous update) the speaker volume has been drastically reduced on my laptop. Although I do not know they make sense when running pipewire-pulse, I tried the steps described in https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture/Troubleshooting, except the softvol preamp thing.

I did not find any obviously sound related packages in this last update. My kernel did update to 6.5.5 (from 6.5.3).

Anyone else experiencing volume issues? Or any hints maybe on where or what to look for?

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[–] Molecular0079 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No issues on my end, but you might want to use something like alsamixer to check whether your hardware volume is normal or not.

[–] jeroentbt 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, alsamixer (as does my main volume control app pavucontrol) does show volume as maxed out. It seems there's something after that that messes with the volume. :(

[–] Molecular0079 1 points 1 year ago

By default, alsamixer just shows Pipewire's volume controls. Did you press F6 to switch to your actual audio hardware?

Also, check the volume levels on the individual audio streams. Maybe they got lowered. If all else fails, shutdown pipewire with sudo systemctl stop pipewire.socket and delete ~/.local/state/wireplumber to reset everything.

[–] jeroentbt 1 points 1 year ago

Another update with some sound specific stuff and a firmware update fixed it! Not sure which one triggered the fix.