Ivan MolodetskikhApr 3

Today is the second time when PipeWire (or kernel? idk) on Fedora 44 Beta suddenly decided to blast my headphones at 10x their maximum volume. It is systemwide and I don't see it indicated anywhere—all sounds just become 10x stronger, very clipped, even when adjusting volume. The only fix I found so far is to replug the headset..

It must be some regression because it never happened on F43

Show threadIvan MolodetskikhApr 3

Opened an issue in PW with whatever details I could scramble. I see a bunch of various recent issues about PW 1.6.2 so maybe something regressed there?

It's kinda problematic that this is the kind of issue that is both not easily reproducible *and* I would very much like to never have to reproduce it again

Show threadIvan MolodetskikhApr 5
Updates on the earrape:
1. I rebooted my Silverblue back into F43 (don't you love when you can just do that?) and the earrape issue promptly reproduced itself there.
2. I seem to have found the root cause: an old faulty USB webcam. Even when unused and off, simply having it plugged in causes an increased rate of rsync warnings and glitchy audio in PipeWire, which eventually can break something and put it into earrape mode. After unplugging that webcam I haven't seen (well, heard) the problem yet
Show threadTomasz Majer
@YaLTeR The rollback function is great. I was using Silverblue for few years and now I’m in love with NixOS :)
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