Bug 400677

Summary:	Cannot change volume after last update - volume gone.
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Winston Nolan <winston.nolan>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	CLOSED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.12.6
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Winston Nolan 2018-11-04 18:29:08 UTC

Hi, 

I will try to keep this message as neutral as possible

After the last update, running Ubuntu 18.04, plasmashell 5.12.6 I have lost all volume control, And the ability to play music through my laptop speakers (headphones still work)

Let's just take a moment, to appreciate the fuckedupness of this bug. 
It's 2018, latest flagship product of KDE, and I cannot play any sound through my laptop speakers, AND, cannot change volume - since my volume indicator is completeness missing, and the shortcut keys, which use to work, now has no effect. 


Put aside, free software, all the bullshit, and lets look at the product, that you're putting out there. 


It's crazy, This is substandard, and you can flame me all you want, which you will no undoubtedly do, because you are so sensitive, and attack any notion of common sense.


To be honest with you, I have

Googled
Backed up ~/.config/pulse
Purged alsa-base pulseaudio
Reinstalled alsa-base pulseaudio
Installed libpulseadio
cp /etc/pulse/default.pa ~/.config/pulse/default.pa
Config'ed it

And I am writing this bug report thankful that i can at the very least listen to some fucking music. 

This bug report, is no just about sound. It's about the greater quality of KDE. 
It fucking sucks. Let me tell you. You can preach, and post all you want, but if you can get a technical person to get a volume control working you have a bigger fucking problem on your hands.

Do with this bug report what you want. Delete it for all I care.

Comment 1 Winston Nolan 2018-11-04 19:06:05 UTC

Out of desperation, I installed unity, and even though the volume control is there, and I can use it to adjust the volume, the hotkeys does not work. Leaving me with no other option, but to apologise for this post, admit, that it was written out of pure frustration, and declare unreservedly that this must be either a system bug, or some bug in the greater Ubuntu OS and to admit that the original bug now exists in some way or form in an environment outside of KDE. 
Since this bug was blamed squarely on KDE - I no longer believe this is the fault of KDE alone. I therefore apologise to the maintainer for this bug logged incorrectly.

Comment 2 David Edmundson 2018-11-04 21:17:48 UTC

The original post was rather hot-headed. Don't post like that, you won't be given any attention.

>hotkeys don't work

Look into "xev" ,check keys are mapped correctly

Comment 3 Winston Nolan 2018-11-05 05:25:17 UTC

Installing plasma-pa brought the volume icon in task bar back and the hotkeys work
sudo apt-get install plasma-pa

Volume still doesn't work
I understand that my post was heated, I was just frustrated that in 2018 one could have weird problems like this

Comment 4 Winston Nolan 2018-11-11 17:30:10 UTC

After the latest updates, sound is back. I'm not sure what the cause was.

Comment 5 David Edmundson 2018-11-11 17:38:10 UTC

Probably lower in the stack than Plasma