r/pipewire

Hey everyone,
I've been really enjoying Fedora for a good while now, and am on 43. But I'm having an audio issue that I can't find an answer to online, and am hoping that someone here might be able to assist.

I am having major audio static, particularly when gaming. It will start clear, but become more and more degraded as time goes on. This sometimes also happens when I'm watching youtube or listening to music, but it's much more rare.

When looking up these issues, I can only find people who have had static while there should be silence. This is not my problem. It's dead quiet when it should be.

Here's the last thing that makes my head spin: This happens when I'm using wired headphones, the laptops built in speakers, and my USB audio interface that runs studio monitors. This DOESN'T ever happen over bluetooth. I can play with bluetooth headphones, and the sounds stays crystal clear.

Any thoughts? Thanks in advance for any input.

Hello all,

I met a weird problem, I was on bullseye and recently install the last official trixie debian image (13.5.0).

All working well, even a bug on my audio volume.

I have my laptop integrated speakers working well, I set the volume to 95%, nor problem.

But if I plug any USB audio device (dock with jack, headset, etc) it will reset my speakers volume to 50%, every time ! Why ?

Did someone met the same problem ? And did you have solution ?

Configuration : HP elitebook G8 + official debian 13.5.0 iso