[tde-users] Re: Kaffeine fails to load XineParts

said E. Liddell via tde-users: | On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 23:17:29 -0500 | | J Leslie Turriff via tde-users <users(a)trinitydesktop.org> wrote: | > I finally got sound working after upgrading to openSUSE Leap 15.6 | > (Yay), but when I start Kaffeine to listen to some music, it says it | > can't load XineParts (unYay). I've attached the message that Kaffeine | > displays. It's not too helpful. | > In openSUSE Leap 15.6, sound is now controlled by PipeWire instead of | > PulseAudio. Could this have anything to do with my issue? | | Pipewire is supposed to be backward-compatible with Pulse if you have | all the right bits running, but I understand there are edge cases. | | However, the questions suggested by the Department of the Bleedin' | Obvious are: is xine installed? Are all of the TDE multimedia packages | installed (just in case this is an ioslave issue)? What is aRts set to | use for output, assuming it's installed? Pipewire kinda sucks. I spent most of a day picking it out of Bookworm and replacing it with Pulse so I could get any sound at all from Kaffeine on the RPi5s. It is to audio what Wayland is to whatever Wayland is supposed to be. Even where it is "working," as on my Trixie desktop, there is no volume control available, and the default volume is very, very low. You can download "pwvucontrol," available only as a flatpak. I do not know if it works. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/