Re: KDE audio long broken.

[Andy Wood <ayup.gromit@gmail.com>]

On Friday, 6 September 2024 15:54:15 BST Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2024 at 10:45:16AM +0100, Andy Wood wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Can anybody point me towards a solution to this long standing Debian KDE
> > problem, which started around the time of the t64 transition upheaval.
> > Up-to-date Debian testing system.
> > Audio works with the VLC media player (via Pipewire to ALSA).
> > The Audio Volume Plasma Widget says "No output or input devices found".
> 
> I expect the outcome to be the same, but still. Can you install
> pavucontrol and see what it shows?

pavucontrol says it cannot connect to pulseaudio.  I am guessing this is 
because wireplumber > pipewire is now in control; pulseaudio has been removed 
and replaced with pipewire-pulse?

This is all that is left of pulseaudio:
ii  libkf5pulseaudioqt5:amd64           1.5.0-3
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0:amd64    16.1+dfsg1-5.1
ii  libpulse0:amd64                               16.1+dfsg1-5.1
ii  pavucontrol                                        6.0-1
ii  pipewire-pulse                                   1.2.3-1

`wpctl status` shows the following:

Audio
 ├─ Devices:
 │      48. GP107GL High Definition Audio Controller [alsa]
 │      49. Gaming Webcam [Kiyo]                [alsa]
 │      50. Built-in Audio                      [alsa]
 ├─ Sinks:
 │  *   59. Built-in Audio Analog Stereo        [vol: 0.40]

The default audio sink is 59.

Thanks.
Andy.