no UI sounds in deck ui, games are fine

Anyone else experiencing issues with UI sounds in the Deck UI? It was working previously but stopped recently. Games all have sounds once launching but the deck interface sounds don't work despite toggling the option on and off, changing audio output devices. The boot animation also has no sound, same with videos in the store.

Deck image installed on a minisforum htpc, sound device is set to the GPU/HDMI interface.

Solution

ok, So that fixed it. however.... The decky voume mixer showed steam as max volume. Went into desktop mode, steam application was not showing up in volume > applications until I went to a store page & played a video, then it showed up as chromium and was muted, unmuted it there and boom sound works again in game mode.

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Kyle Gospo•1/7/24, 6:20 PM

Any chance you've customized the volume for steam itself?

iamchochoOP•1/7/24, 6:20 PM

Changed any of the sliders or customized in any other way?

Kyle Gospo•1/7/24, 6:20 PM

there's a per-application volume plugin for decky loader to make checking that easy

Kyle Gospo•1/7/24, 6:21 PM

steam itself is responsible for all the UI sounds

iamchochoOP•1/7/24, 6:21 PM

When I first got this thing up and running I had to go into audio settings at each boot and select the GPU, Eventually went in and disabled the headphone device from desktop mode and then it defauled to the right device but in the last few days its just the steam UI sounds that are borked.

Kyle Gospo•1/7/24, 6:22 PM

Interesting, the default is selected by wireplumber in this case

iamchochoOP•1/7/24, 6:22 PM

hmm, Ill check that, ill also go check if it got turned down in desktop mode. Good call, didnt think of that.

Kyle Gospo•1/7/24, 6:22 PM

possible it's still getting it wrong, if you check your audio device in steam gamemode settings -- does it look correct?

Kyle Gospo•1/7/24, 6:22 PM

try changing it from the default

iamchochoOP•1/7/24, 6:23 PM

Ill have to check and poke around, you gave me some good ideas to check though. Kids are playing castle crashers right now so ill have to wait till I can mess with it again.

Kyle Gospo•1/7/24, 6:25 PM

best of luck

matt_schwartz•1/7/24, 6:28 PM

this potentially sounds like what happens if Steam gets muted via its desktop icon that shows up in the taskbar while open

Solution

iamchocho•1/7/24, 7:53 PM

matt_schwartz•1/7/24, 7:55 PM

I’ve seen it happen randomly across multiple distros, no clue wtf causes it but glad the solution worked

matt_schwartz•1/7/24, 7:55 PM

I’ve even had it happen on steamos

iamchochoOP•1/7/24, 7:56 PM

I bet it got accidentally muted when we were in desktop mode at some point. its easy to do it exactly like you mentioned the little speaker icon in the task bar.

iamchochoOP•1/7/24, 8:04 PM

When I get a chance Ill go try to write something up on how to track this down as others are likely to hit it at some point.

iamchochoOP•1/7/24, 8:12 PM

and ill go get a discorse account setup

no UI sounds in deck ui, games are fine

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