On 2025-08-11 00:15:15 Felix Miata via tde-users wrote:
Until several months ago, somewhere around 14.1.5pre I think, sound on this system worked, but since then it has no longer. It's no better running an IceWM session. Any ideas how to get it to work, in particular bothering me, the dbus failure? Why is $DISPLAY missing? Why is pulseaudio even needed any more with pipewire and wireplumber development having all but stopped pulseaudio development?
I've been struggling with trying to get sound working ever since I upgraded to Leap 15.6. Even as far back as when PulseAudio was introduced to "improve" sound support I had to remove it to get sound going via ALSA; since PipeWire added more "improvements" I've not been able to get sound to work at all. I've tried all of the troubleshooting stuff in SDB and elsewhere on the web. It's very frustrating; even removing PipeWire and PulseAudio doesn't help; I have to wonder if there is something else wrong with the audio stack?
Leslie