On Sun, 4 Jul 2021 07:38:08 -0700 stan via test test@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
As a test, I removed pipewire, and its dozen or so dependencies. Sound started working again, and I was able to configure things to my preferences. I'll keep an eye on pipewire and its progress, perhaps try installing it and its dependencies periodically, but I don't really need its touted benefits, so for now I will stick with working over innovative.
The fix didn't survive a reboot. When I checked, it was running pipewire-pulseaudio, not pulseaudio. So, I installed pulseaudio with --allowerasing, and sound is again working. Well, almost. I use an obsolete fedora python2 application that I rebuild locally called pulseaudio-equalizer to tune sound output. And it is not working with the new pulseaudio. If there was a built in equalizer in pipewire, that would provide an additional incentive to get it working.