On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 at 10:57, Sreyan Chakravarty <sreyan32@gmail.com> wrote:

On 5/31/20 10:42 PM, Łukasz Posadowski wrote:
> Sorry, I didn't read entire thread, so it is possible that someone
> mentioned that. It is a problem with many distributions and possibly
> You are missing one package. Try:
> dnf install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.x86_64
> After that, Audacity will detect any sound card and interface, that
> Pulse is able to detect (like every one).

It seems I am out of luck:

$ sudo dnf install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio

Package alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.2.2-1.fc32.x86_64 is already installed.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!

Its already installed.

Now what do I do ?

Early on you were asked to run pavucontrol and bash didn't find it.   Apologies if I missed further mention of pavucontrol, but have you tried "dnf install pavucontrol"?   You also mentioned that audacity might be a flatpak.   In that case there may be a miscommunication between the flatpak and fedora's audio support.   

It is worth looking for reports of linux installs (of any distro) on your laptop model for discussions of audio problems.  I have a desktop that disables the analog audio output if it is sending audio to HDMI -- unfortunately my monitor has terrible speakers and (unlike TV's) no analog audio output.

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