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sephiroth

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From: Fayetteville, NC, USA

Registered: 2025-05-27

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No audio in fresh install of Excalibur

I have installed Excalibur in a VirtualBox VM running on Windows 11 Pro. Installation was fairly easy and I did a barebones install. I then installed the core Plasma package and standard desktop (not the big, full one). Everything seems to be fine except for audio. When clicking the mixer icon in the system try I only get "Connection to the Sound Service Lost" and nothing else. Pipewire is installed from what I can tell. I installed the ALSA utilities. Where do I even begin here?

greenjeans

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Re: No audio in fresh install of Excalibur

Hmm, pipewire is not my area of expertise, but off the top of my head i'd open a terminal and type alsamixer to see if I could get an idea of what's available, could be wrong device or maybe a muted channel.

Problem is with a big DE like that not to mention pipewire, you might not get proper output from that command, but it's what i'd do first.

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Robin

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Re: No audio in fresh install of Excalibur

On my (Xfce) panel I have an icon in the system tray for "alsamixer" that fixes sound for me.

The fix doesn't "stick," though, after a reboot. I'm sure there's a way to make it the default, some file to edit, probably. If anyone can suggest such an edit, I would be very grateful!

golinux

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Re: No audio in fresh install of Excalibur

Maybe try .asoundrc ?

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Re: No audio in fresh install of Excalibur

Maybe try .asoundrc ?

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goat

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Re: No audio in fresh install of Excalibur

Audio has been broken, out-of-the-box, in my experience of both latest Stable Debian and Devuan.  I just uninstalled pipewire to fix it I think.  Might have installed pulseaudio after the uninstall.

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