No audio Fedora 38 VM / PipeWire support

[louis2]

I installed NoMachine on a Fedora 38 Workstation VM (on TrueNas Scale)…… and I do not manage to get the audio working 🙁

During the installation of NoMachine (8.8.1), I get the message  “The NoMachine  setup procedure  could not  detect  your  PulseAudio  installation”. Which is logical since modern linux including Fedora38 is using “PipeWire”

Checking Fedora ^# pactl info^ shows:
Server : /run/user/1000/pulse/native
Library protocolversion: 35
Server protocolversion: 35
Is Local: ja
Cliënt-index: 80
Tile size: 65472
Username: louis2
Host name: Fedora38WS
Server name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 0.3.67)
Server version: 15.0.0

In the Fedora GUI, audio settings shows ^Dummy Output^ as device (no other options), which could be wrong despite the fact that it is a VM without a physical audio device.

Any one know how to fix this !?

Louis

[Britgirl]

There is a small bug in the NoMachine node.cfg on Fedora: there is the wrong value set for key AudioInterface during installation on Linux with Pipewire

The key is set to node.cfg: AudioInterface alsa

The workaround is to set manually “AudioInterface pipewire” and nxserver --restart

Please try this and let us know if it helps.

[djm]

I joined the forum just to thank you for providing the fix.  Changing to pipewire worked for me.  I love using NoMachine.

[Britgirl]

“I love using NoMachine.” – Thanks for letting us know, and keep nomachining djm 🙂

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