unable to adjust Bass speaker in alsamixer

[papapenguin]

Pipewire is being used, not Pulseaudio, since before 24.04

So:

systemctl restart --user pipewire​

It *might* be worth deleting the state files before doing this, as this will reset all device preferences and maybe some options, basically resets things;

Remove ~/.local/state/wireplumber.

It won't hurt anything, but it also might not be the fix, unless it was working at some point in the recent past.

It seems that these laptops have crappy audio bits, at least for Linux.

I deleted the folder and now when attempting a restart:

donald@donald:~$ systemctl restart --user pipewire
Invalid unit name "pipewire" escaped as "pipewire\xe2\x80\x8b" (maybe you should use systemd-escape?).
Failed to restart pipewire\xe2\x80\x8b.service: Unit pipewire\xe2\x80\x8b.service not found.

[claydoh]

I had it bass-ackwards.
systemctl --user restart pipewire

[papapenguin]

I had it bass-ackwards.
systemctl --user restart pipewire.service

donald@donald:~$ systemctl --user restart pipewire.service
Invalid unit name "pipewire.service" escaped as "pipewire.service\xe2\x80\x8b" (maybe you should use systemd-escape?).
Failed to restart pipewire.service\xe2\x80\x8b.service: Unit pipewire.service\xe2\x80\x8b.service not found.

[claydoh]

It works for me

[papapenguin]

It works for me

yes -- this is a mystery for sure

[papapenguin]

donald@donald:~$ pipewire start
[E][07136.947166] mod.protocol-native | [module-protocol-: 760 lock_socket()] server 0x5d2f093da150: unable to lock lockfile '/run/user/1000/pipewire-0.loc
k': Resource temporarily unavailable (maybe another daemon is running)
[E][07136.949990] pw.conf | [ conf.c: 584 load_module()] 0x5d2f093b3cc0: could not load mandatory module "libpipewire-module-protocol-native"
: Resource temporarily unavailable
[E][07136.952665] default | [ pipewire.c: 105 main()] failed to create context: Resource temporarily unavailable