Valve Index Audio Output Issue
Hey!
I installed Bazzite a few days ago, and am having an issue with my Valve Index on Bazzite. The headphones are not being detected as an audio output device, and do not show in the sound settings in plasma.
I've made some progress in figuring out how to get sound to play through the Index headphones correctly.
I have found that if I first start SteamVR, I can get a hardware device number using
I am able to get the headphones to play the 'front left', 'front right' test audio with
Additionally, neither the microphone or headphones can play a sound without SteamVR running, but I'm not sure if that can be fixed.
I have tried plugging the index into different displayports as well with no changes.
I tried using the SteamVR stable and beta branch with no difference between the two except some tracking related things.
Any assistance will be greatly appreciated!
Operating System: Bazzite 41
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.9.0
Qt Version: 6.8.1
Kernel Version: 6.12.8-201.bazzite.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 20 × Intel® Core™ i9-10900K CPU @ 3.70GHz
Memory: 125.7 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080/PCIe/SSE2
Manufacturer: ASUS
I installed Bazzite a few days ago, and am having an issue with my Valve Index on Bazzite. The headphones are not being detected as an audio output device, and do not show in the sound settings in plasma.
I've made some progress in figuring out how to get sound to play through the Index headphones correctly.
I have found that if I first start SteamVR, I can get a hardware device number using
aplay -lI am able to get the headphones to play the 'front left', 'front right' test audio with
speaker-test -Dhw:1,3 -c2 -twavAdditionally, neither the microphone or headphones can play a sound without SteamVR running, but I'm not sure if that can be fixed.
I have tried plugging the index into different displayports as well with no changes.
I tried using the SteamVR stable and beta branch with no difference between the two except some tracking related things.
Any assistance will be greatly appreciated!
Operating System: Bazzite 41
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.9.0
Qt Version: 6.8.1
Kernel Version: 6.12.8-201.bazzite.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 20 × Intel® Core™ i9-10900K CPU @ 3.70GHz
Memory: 125.7 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080/PCIe/SSE2
Manufacturer: ASUS
