said Felix Miata via tde-users:
| 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?
A while ago, well over a year, tired of having my privacy pillaged by television providers, I built my own televisions, using big monitors, good Onkyo sound systems, and Raspberry Pi 5 innards. Went together wonderfully. Only problem was sound, which unfortunately was Pipewire. Spent days trying to sort it out, unsuccessfully. Purged Pipewire and installed Pilseaudio. Worked instantly and has ever since. (As have the TVs, even through ProtonVPN. IPTVnator is our friend, running totally legit streams.)
Likewise Trixie, which I've been running for a year, since deep into it being testing. No sound issues at all. I'd bes that there's some piece of Pipewire cruft keeping it from working there. I even have good Trixie sound with Pulseaudio on my 18-year-old ThinkPad X200, also running Trixie. With 4 gigs. I really ought to get it 4 more. And maybe an SSD.