With Qubes 4.2.3 I have serious audio issues. I am a noob when it comes to audio, so please forgive me if my issues are easily-fixed.
Hardware - no external sound card, 3.5 mm aux headphones. No hardware or cabling issue.
On 4.2.3 I often can’t hear anything when playing audio, or I just hear audio through one channel only - left or right. This is sometimes fixed by playing audio in another qube.
This happens regardless of which app I play the audio from (e.g., VLC, Firefox, Fedora’s Videos app), regardless of the OS (Fedora 40, Debian 12, Whonix 17) and regardless of what type of file or stream I am trying to play.
Playing audio from different apps or qubes at the same time is also buggy. Sometimes I don’t hear anything at all, sometimes I hear only one of the “streams” (not sure about the terminology here).
The issues are in , with VLC, Firefox, the Fedora “Videos” app and other apps I can’t recall now.
This has never happened to me before 4.2.3 - I have been able to play a sound file on one qube, play an YouTube video on another qube and have a call on a third qube all at the same time without any issues before.
I don’t have a sys-audio qube, because, as I understand it, it is necessary for USB audio, but I have a standard 3.5 mm aux jack.
I saw several different forum posts and issues, but I can’t find anything specific to my setup and issues.
[user@dom0 ~]$ systemctl --user status pulseaudio
Unit pulseaudio.service could not be found.
[user@dom0 ~]$ systemctl --user status pipewire
● pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Mon 2024-10-28 00:08:49 EET; 6 days ago
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire.socket
Main PID: 12450 (pipewire)
Tasks: 3 (limit: 4605)
Memory: 42.9M
CPU: 6min 21.379s
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pipewire.service
└─12450 /usr/bin/pipewire
Nov 02 19:38:56 dom0 pipewire[12450]: pw.node: (alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo-45) suspended -> error (Start error: Cannot allocate memory)
Nov 03 00:35:50 dom0 pipewire[12450]: spa.alsa: set_hw_params: Cannot allocate memory
Nov 03 00:35:50 dom0 pipewire[12450]: pw.node: (alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo-45) suspended -> error (Start error: Cannot allocate memory)
Nov 03 00:57:13 dom0 pipewire[12450]: spa.alsa: set_hw_params: Cannot allocate memory
Nov 03 00:57:13 dom0 pipewire[12450]: pw.node: (alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo-45) suspended -> error (Start error: Cannot allocate memory)
Nov 03 00:57:18 dom0 pipewire[12450]: spa.alsa: set_hw_params: Cannot allocate memory
Nov 03 00:57:18 dom0 pipewire[12450]: pw.node: (alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo-45) suspended -> error (Start error: Cannot allocate memory)
Nov 03 00:57:18 dom0 pipewire[12450]: pw.link: 0x5b3984b0a4f0: one of the nodes is in error out:running in:error
Nov 03 00:57:23 dom0 pipewire[12450]: spa.alsa: set_hw_params: Cannot allocate memory
Nov 03 00:57:23 dom0 pipewire[12450]: pw.node: (alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo-45) suspended -> error (Start error: Cannot allocate memory)
[user@dom0 ~]$ uname -r
6.6.48-1.qubes.fc37.x86_64
[user@dom0 ~]$ ps -ef | grep -iE 'pipe|audio|pulse'
user 12450 12441 0 Oct28 ? 00:06:21 /usr/bin/pipewire
user 12452 12441 0 Oct28 ? 00:10:21 /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse
user 12571 12544 0 Oct28 ? 00:13:29 /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins/libpulseaudio-plugin.so 7 14680072 pulseaudio PulseAudio Plugin Adjust the audio volume of the PulseAudio sound system
How should I proceed with troubleshooting? Any logs I could monitor in real time?
Thanks 