"No output device" in sound settings

[shoe18]

I installed Zorin 18 Core and had been running sound on my Thinkpad T480 with no issues for a month using pipewire. Turned on my computer a few days ago and now it doesn't play any sound, in settings no output devices are found. The internal microphone still reads fine.

I tried rebooting, uninstalling and reinstalling pipewire, plugging in a pair of headphones which also weren't read in output. Pretty new to the world of linux and would appreciate any tips.

i also did a speaker test which came back with this:

[Ponce-De-Leon]

Welcome to the Forum!

Did You received any Updates before this happened? Did You tried Pulse Audio Volume Control? It is a Tool for set up Audio Input and Output. You can install it with the Terminal Command sudo apt install pavucontrol

When installed, check the Configuration and Output Tab and see what Audio Profiles are shown to You.

[shoe18]

On Pulse Audio Volume Control it shows this for outputs:

On the configuration tab it shows my built-in audio is "unavailable" :

When i clicked on the bar to show other options, they all also read as unavailable.

[StarTreker]

HDMI is a display port protocal that includes audio. From my experience, built in speakers doesn't use HDMI output. You need to choose this one for output, if you want to hear out of built in laptop speakers.

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[shoe18]

Thank you!! It didn't show up in settings but I changed it in Pulse Audio configurations and the sound came back.

[zabadabadoo]

I am glad that the issue was fixed by standard sound settings and not another effect of the software update of kernel 6.14 to 6.17.