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Not that I'm an expert, but I could have sworn I've seen people in the past who were talking about accidentally messing with the physical stuff involved with the headphone jack when they hard drive swapped.
I might be misremembering but just wanted to suggest that you may want to check into whether it could be physical, and not software related, because if you're troubleshooting the wrong cause you can get stuck on it for quite a while.
Thanks! Funny enough, that was my first assumption,I was worried I ruined something. But taking it apart everything looked fine.
In the end Max_P gave me the solution, deleting the pipewire and wireplumber folders and restarting. Worked like a charm!
Yay! Glad to hear that you found the solution!
Have you tried reinstalling the audio driver?
This is a strange issue. My only guess is that maybe there's a firmware that's registering to the original m.2 drive that's saved elsewhere on the motherboard and it's glitching out from the drive suddenly being different.
I wasn't sure how to do that, but it's fixed just now.
Max_P suggested deleting the pipewire and wireplumber folders and restarting, that did the trick!
I can't help but I just wanted to say that I'm also having headphone issues after putting my old 2280 NVME into my OLED from LCD deck.
When I plug in headphones it's fine. But if I unplug then plugh back in again? Crackling in the background constantly. Reboot fixes it. No idea why.
Interesting. Something about swapping ssds around is freaking out the.. What.. audio driver?
Maybe if I find a solution it can help you too
Thanks mate, same. I struggled to find people talking about it online. To be honest it's not a terrible problem for me. Use Bluetooth most of the time.
Not sure if this will solve your problems as well, crackling sounds like hardware to me. But Max_P suggested deleting the pipewire and wireplumber folders and restarting, that fixed it!
Wow okay I will try that!
Let me know!
No worries.
Yeah I've used Bluetooth before, but the lag is always noticeable for me. I can ignore it on something like HZD or HFW, but I've been playing Fretless lately, so musical timing is key.
My wired headphones always stay in the steam case waiting for me, never need charged or fussed with, they just work. Plus I got an old school pair, big drivers that sit in your ear, not in your ear canal, so I can still hear the world around me without needing passthrough or whatever it's called. The only loss is a little less bass 🤷♂️
I have the same issue, and I also believe it’s software related.
Only temporary fix I’ve found so far is changing the output but not to another output. In Desktop Mode, from the Audio Volume menu > Three lines switch to Pro Audio and back to default a couple of times until it fixes.
Unfortunately, this only lasts until a restart.
USB headset via a docking station works no problem.
If that works, something with the PipeWire state might be weird. Tried deleting pipewire/wireplumber in ~/.local/state followed by a reboot (or restarting pipewire and wireplumber). That should reset it.
👆 this sounds like the most probable fix. I suspect OP buried a very critical factoid - moving the drive between OLED and LCD models. The systems have some significant hardware differences (as evidenced by the Windows drivers changing so much that Valve took a long time to update em). Somewhere, Pipewire has squirreled away details about routing or preferred devices from the old system.
Heck, there might be journalctl log entries being generated you plug into the headphone jack. Pipewire could already be trying to tell you exactly what's wrong.
This was the solution, deleting the pipewire and wireplumber folders and restarting was the solution.
To be clear though, I definitely swapped from one LCD model to another, so I'm still not sure why it was failing 🤷♂️
Glad it's fixed though!
Disregard, I found it. Looks like it also worked!
~~Sorry, could you please give more context on what you deleted and where?
I tried looking for that ~/.local/ folder but can't seem to find it :/ I'm still new to Linux/Steam OS~~
Glad you found it, and glad it worked for you too!
Huh. Mmmaybe the LCD model has board revisions that are still different enough to trip things up? It's definitely a bug to have wireplumber not "do the right thing no matter what hardware it booted up on today", it would probably take a Valve engineer to chase that down and submit a patch.
That makes sense, definitely weirdness. Funny it didn't bother it the other way around, the other deck is fine 🤔
At any rate, I'm done worrying about it haha
Looks like this worked, thank you Max!
You absolute legend, this was it, now my headphones work perfectly, thank you!
I'm op, not the guy you responded to. But I might try this as well. I wasn't able to make mine work on desktop mode, but maybe something else is fishy in there. Thanks!
Pro audio and back? Ok I don't remember seeing that specifically.
I did go into desktop mode and fiddle with the audio mixer, turning the speakers and headphones on and off, etc. Never got any sound. But I'll dig deeper. Maybe this combined with the other person who responded to you, can get me up and running.
Can't try it till this evening though.
It's in there, for some reason it won't let me take a screenshot while that menu is open... You should see Default (selected) and Pro Audio.
Looks like this once you switch to Pro, then I go back to default and it fixes after a couple back and forth
I did those steps to no avail, unfortunately.
However, deleting the pipewire and wireplumber folders and restarting did the trick!
Ok thanks I'll check it out tonight. That menu definitely already looks different than what I was seeing, from my memory anyway
You could try Bazzite instead of SteamOS. It runs the same in game mode, but they seem to do more bug fixes faster than Valve.
Thanks! But that still involves starting over. Which I guess wouldn't be so bad. I could move most of my game data and stuff over, I just don't want to haha
if you end up having to start over anyway I would also recommend this. I've been using it since the first release and I only reinstalled once when putting in the nvme (was the mmc model). before that I had to factory reset twice and reimage once and never figured out what the cause was for any of the problems. plus most of the recommended deck tweaks on steam os are default on bazzite
Is bazzite that good?
I admit I haven't looked extremely deeply into it, other than that it's steamos for things that aren't steam decks.
There's gotta be some caveats, otherwise why are people so excited about stock steamos coming to more devices natively?
I'm not against it, honestly I'm considering it, I just wanna be informed
I think a lot of the excitement for SteamOS on other devices comes from two things:
Bazzite is basically like if you handed your Steam Deck to someone that was really knowledgeable with all the time in the world to tinker, and they added all of the third-party quirks and features that Valve would never ship themselves for you. Things like:
The only caveat I can think of really is that you're relying on a small team that supports it, rather than an industry heavyweight like Valve. However, due to the open nature of Linux, all the tools that they've made for SteamOS are used here as well, there's just a bunch they've layered on top to enhance and modify the experience.
Edit: There's more it does differently but it's hard for me to distinguish it all because I've only ever had a Legion Go and only run Bazzite. As well, you can do all of these things yourself with a stock install of SteamOS, Bazzite just has a better OOTB experience.
bazzite is layered on fedora which is the bulk of the system and fedora isn't going anywhere any time soon but with the small market share of linux in general valve does have much more recognition in the gaming community which is traditionally very windows leaning. I've also seen people preferring it because of the arch base but rolling release distros being converted to atomic is an iffy choice. but yeah switching is only worth it if starting over is already necessary. I switched when I did the nvme upgrade.
Small point, just for the sake of discussion, since you seem knowledgeable and I'm sure you already know:
Upgrading your storage doesn't strictly require starting over. When I went from 512 to 2tb, I just cloned the drive, then expanded the main partition to fit. Worked like a charm 👌
For most people though yeah it's probably easier starting over than fussing with cloning.
I'll be cloning my buddy's 64gb drive as soon as he buys something bigger.
I keep everything including games backed up and accessible over lan and haven't felt the need to clone a drive ever. If I didn't have space for a game I'd just delete a bunch and local transfer if I wanted to play it later. It really just boils down to distro hoppers gonna hop though...
Thanks for the write-up!
I might try bazzite at a later date, but for now, Max_P suggested deleting the pipewire and wireplumber folders and restarting, and that's solved my problem for now, thankfully!
yeah I'd just stay until an unresolvable problem that needs a wipe comes up