I have a computer devoted to handling my media center and recently upgraded it from OpenSuSE 15.5.to 15..6 (KDE X-11 Plasma desktop) and now I am having troubles setting up the sound system. Whenever I right click on the small speaker icon in the kicker bar, to configure the audio devices, and select any one of the playback devices and try to test the speakers, I get the following error - Error trying to play a test sound. The system said: "System error" NOT very helpful IMHO! I have followed, and done what I could do, the suggestions outlined at - https://en.opensuse.org/Sound_troubleshooting but many of the steps ran into the above mentioned "System error". I have no idea how to go about debugging the openSuSE sound subsystem, there doesn't seem to be any log files associated with the sound system to study, nor does the general messages log file show anything about sound system failures. The following shows my sound system hardware components -
# inxi -Aa Audio: Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0 chip-ID: 8086:0c0c class-ID: 0403 Device-2: Intel 9 Series Family HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:8ca0 class-ID: 0403 Device-3: Creative Labs EMU10k2/CA0100/CA0102/CA10200 [Sound Blaster Audigy Series] driver: snd_emu10k1 v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1102:0004 class-ID: 0401 Device-4: BEHRINGER GmbH UMC202HD 192k driver: snd-usb-audio type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 3-11:6 chip-ID: 1397:0507 class-ID: fe01 Device-5: Texas Instruments PCM2900 Audio Codec driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 3-4:3 chip-ID: 08bb:2900 class-ID: 0300 API: ALSA v: k6.4.0-150600.23.25-default status: kernel-api with: aoss type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: off with: wireplumber status: active tools: pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl Server-2: PulseAudio v: 17.0 status: active (root, process) with: pulseaudio-alsa type: plugin tools: pacat,pactl
As always, all help and suggestions offered are much appreciated, thank you. Marc