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

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Wednesday, 15 June 2022 03:21:51 BST Julien Roy wrote:

> A few suggestions to pin point the source of your problem:

Thanks for you help.

> - Try with a different audio device to test if the issue is localized to 
> this USB dongle, or if it is "system wide",

The evidence points squarely away from the hardware. I can't see this being 
anything other than a misconfiguration or a coding error.

> - Install a different DE (or perhaps a WM would be faster), to see 
> whether this is KDE-related, or system wide,

I may do that.

> - Take a copy/backup/snapshot of your new user account before the issue 
> occurs, and compare it (specifically the config files) to the account 
> after the issue appears. This may help you find out if KDE is doing 
> something fishy with a config file somewhere that triggers the problem. 
> Alternatively, you could also revert to the snapshot and see if that 
> fixes the problem. If so, then you might want to take more granular 
> snapshots (specific folders or files), and restore specific folders as 
> the issue appears, to figure out where exactly the problem is located.

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...

> As for the drive that wants to mount itself, I don't think it is related 
> to this audio problem, but KDE (and DEs in general) have settings to 
> allow mounting devices (automatically) through the DE itself rather than 
> fstab, which explains why the noauto setting is being ignored : check 
> the settings in KDE to see if it's setup to auto mount devices.

Setting all devices to no-automount hasn't helped.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.