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

[Julien Roy <julien@jroy.ca>]

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Hello,


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

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

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

- 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.

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.


Regards


On 6/14/22 22:00, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I thought it was time to start a fresh thread, so here it is.
>
> I still have no working sound. I keep thinking I've fixed the problem, only to
> be proved wrong at the next reboot. The hardware is a USB dongle with a Unitek
> Y-247A chipset and I'm using an ordinary 3.5mm wired connection.
>
> The problem seems to be in my user account, because I can create a new user,
> then adjust control panel values to suit, logging out and in after each
> change. The sound keeps operating as it should - until I reboot, and then it's
> dead.
>
> By 'dead' I mean (a) it's silent, and (b) when I click the control panel
> button to test a speaker, the icon changes colour to show it's working, but it
> just hangs and never comes back.
>
> This reminds me of another problem, in which Konsole windows are not always
> restored after a login. This has still not been fixed; two bugs refer:
>
> 1.  https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=819459
> 2.  https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445862
>
> Something else also changes at the first reboot after creating a new user
> account: a dialogue box opens requesting permission to mount a partition - but
> that partition is one of several marked 'noauto' in fstab. (Screen shot
> attached.)
>
> What can possibly live under /home/prh and cause all this disruption? I might
> suspect I'd been hacked, but I've rebuilt a new system several times, and I've
> lost count of the times I've thrown away my user account and started again.
>

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