Re: KDE audio long broken.

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

On Saturday, 7 September 2024 08:37:23 BST Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2024 at 04:40:14PM +0100, Andy Wood wrote:
> > > > 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?
> 
> Yes, seamlessly.
> So do you have pipewire-pulse *running*?

$ systemctl --user status pipewire-pulse.service
pipewire-pulse.service - PipeWire PulseAudio
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire-pulse.service; enabled; 
preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) 

No error messages.

Reinstalled pipewire-pulse so /usr/share/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf is as 
per the default.
/etc/pipewire/ is empty.
~/.config/pipewire does not exist.

Andy.