dep via tde-users wrote:
Trying various settings in pavucontrol I found a place
where it was
seemingly forcing HDMI. I disabled that, apparently, because instantly I
had sound. Oh, and nuked pipewire and all its near relatives and close
friends.
if hdmi is initialized as first device and is picked up by pulse you must
change the index value in the modules. Here it looks like this
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
options snd_hda_intel index=0
options snd-usb-audio index=1
This makes sure that the built in is always the first card.
Regarding pipewire, you can remove this package as it is not used by TDE.