No sound from Deck Speakers when docked

[Piorn]

I used to be able to dock the Deck, and use the internal speakers for sound.

Now, whenever I dock the Deck, it forces the external audio device.

I want to use the internal speakers, but no matter what settings I use, it stays silent.

[Sparky]

Having the same issue. Even if I change the audio output to "Speakers" the audio isn't outputted on it.

[WaveX_wav]

Same issue as well....it seems it's specifically the "Speakers" option under audio settings that is broken. If I plug in headphones they work when it is set up under "Default (Speakers)" but not "Speakers" by themselves.

[Piorn]

Until there's an official fix, here's an easy way to correct it. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamOS/issues/1285#issuecomment-1848323543

Just tried it and it works again. Kinda frustrating how poorly this issue was communicated and handled by support, but the fix is easy enough.

[deaddoof]

Originally posted by Piorn:

Until there's an official fix, here's an easy way to correct it. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamOS/issues/1285#issuecomment-1848323543

Just tried it and it works again. Kinda frustrating how poorly this issue was communicated and handled by support, but the fix is easy enough.

Gamemode does not exposes pipewire capabilities.

[Piorn]

Originally posted by deaddoof:

Originally posted by Piorn:

Until there's an official fix, here's an easy way to correct it. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamOS/issues/1285#issuecomment-1848323543

Just tried it and it works again. Kinda frustrating how poorly this issue was communicated and handled by support, but the fix is easy enough.

Gamemode does not exposes pipewire capabilities.

What are you trying to tell me? That the Deck exposes the limits of pipewire?

It seems to work fine, it was just a misplaced config.

[deaddoof]

Originally posted by Piorn:

Originally posted by deaddoof:

Gamemode does not exposes pipewire capabilities.

What are you trying to tell me? That the Deck exposes the limits of pipewire?

It seems to work fine, it was just a misplaced config.

Misplaced config is the whole issue. Config problems be arbitrary and difficult to figure out. Pipewire is a flexible sound server. You can do both consumer and prod audio on top of same sound system. The software handles video streaming too and can manage zero copy recording like Nvidia shadowplay

Config problems are pretty normal in Linux.

Gamemode seems like a shunkworks project. The UI seems inadequate to deal with the complexity of configuring sound like a normal desktop environment.