On Thu, 24 Mar 2022 14:07:27 -0700 Geoffrey Leach geoffleach.gl@gmail.com wrote:
I've just installed Fedora 35 and have discovered to my dismay that previously-working (not at all sophisticated) audio no longer works.
Is there a 'Getting Started With pipewire' and/or wireplumber somewhere? Or should they 'just work' and I need to check my connections?
I'm successfully using wireplumber and pipewire in rawhide, since it was f36. I think I had your issue as some point. But, just like with pulseaudio, it turned out to be that the default device was incorrect. I used pavucontrol, still present though it is no longer pulseaudio under the covers, and set the default device to the one I wanted, and it has worked fine ever since.
There was a recent glitch with a wireplumber update that caused sound to stop working, but it was fixed within a few days.
In summary, for me sound is just working with wireplumber and pipewire replacing pulseaudio. And, since it is inevitable that they are going to replace pulseaudio, might as well bite the bullet and get them working. When replacing pulseaudio with pipewire, use the swap command, dnf swap pulseaudio pipewire-pulseaudio