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Now, of course, I'm terribly embarrassed (especially as I'm a retired 30-year IT Guy and have used Linux for 25+ years). DOH! Never once thought to reset the UEFI boot order. Though, in all honesty, I'd have thought (well, do think) that the order is supposed to cascade down the list until a ...

Update - this box has a LOT of USB drives connected to it through versious USB ports - two USB 3 on an installed USB 3 card, two USB ports on the back of the case (one 2.0, one 3.0) and two USB ports on the front of the case. One of the installed USB 3.0 ports is connected to an external USB hub ...

This is a new install to an existing SSD using the Live USB (which SSD has has Kubuntu 20.04, MX Linux v21, Kubuntu 22.04, and MXLinux v23 installed on it in the past three years) - simply took the default "use the whole disk" option for the installation location - only changes were to the timezone ...

Found it! Like a doofus I didn't think to go to KDE's forum. Just did that and a user posted about loosing his System Settings. Turns out that there's a 'plasma-pa' package that is KDE's System Settings module! It's name and description (Plasma 5 Volume controller) don't really obviously indicate ...

Hmm. Installed pipewire and associated packages. Runs pipewire and pipewire-pulse. But no change in KDE System Settings, still no Sound entry as there was last Tuesday. Following your suggestion, I installed pulseeffects, and paprefs, which as you say removed pipewire (I manually removed the ...

That's interesting. I can confirm that up until I installed it as part of my trouble-shooting (to get working sound again) PipeWire was not installed on this MX-23 system. I can confirm as well that installing PipeWire does remove PulseAudio (it installs a shim so that apps that need PA have a path ...

A simple question (no need to ask why I need to do this - a long, multiday story I wrote about in the MXLinux General Help forum section not knowing this KDE specific section existed; I'd delete that forum post but cannot see how to):

I have a broken, partly configurable PulseAudio. Some PulseAudio ...

Update - I have a webcam for video and audio on Zoom calls. For a Zoom tonight with friends, no audio from that camera. It *looks* fine in everything. It worked last Sunday. Kmix and PulseAudio Volume control both show it, both show it at 100% volume. But no sound. Have an old webcam sitting around ...

$ pactl info
Server String: /run/user/1000/pulse/native
Library Protocol Version: 35
Server Protocol Version: 35
Is Local: yes
Client Index: 42
Tile Size: 65472
User Name: guyst
Host Name: HOLLIN
Server Name: pulseaudio
Server Version: 16.1
Default Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
Default ...

All,

Short Story

Changes to pulseaudio's /etc/pulse/default.pa hosed pulseaudio. But reverting those changes did not restore pulseaudio. A horked package update to libodbc1 happened concurrently resulting in a multi-day trouble-shooting process. Fixing both has left lingering intractable issues ...