Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

[Julien Roy <julien@jroy.ca>]

On 6/15/22 06:52, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
> I do something like that by copying a good user account as a basis for the
> next iteration. The problem is just the fineness of granularity that's needed,
> now that a coarse grain hasn't helped. Hey-ho. Here we must go again...

What is certain is that the issue is caused by a file in your home 
directory, since creating a new user fixes the problem.

What may help you to be more specific with this would be to list what 
files were modified since the last time audio worked; for example, `find 
$HOME -mtime 0` will show files modified in the last 24 hours

You might want to run this command on .config or .kde directories to see 
what could have changed, although it's true that it might take a while 
to pin point it...

Another option, since you mention that you re-created your user multiple 
times, is to just delete specific folders, reboot, and try audio. Maybe 
start with .config as that would be the most obvious culprit. If that 
doesn't work, try .kde (not sure if that folder is in ~/  or ~/.config), 
then other directories.

Also, did you check `dmesg` to see if there are any errors related to 
the audio device/driver? Try `dmesg --level=err,warn`


Regards,

Julien