SUMMARY *** Audio device test doesn't create a noticeable sound at all *** STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open audio settings 2. Press "Test" on output device 3. Select select channel to test OBSERVED RESULT No test sound at all, pavucontrol shows no output stream EXPECTED RESULT Any audible test sound SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.91.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.16.16_1 (64-bit) pulseaudio: 15.0_3 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION System has several audio devices (internal and usb), all of them are configured in pulseaudio and working in applications (aplay, mpv, firefox, kaffeine, ...).
Works for me with current git master. If you run `kcmshell5 kcm_pulseaudio` in a terminal window and try to tets audio, do you see any errors printed to the terminal window when you click the buttons?
Git commit 5c8f12699bdffd2e2b6f56adcf4bbba2fd46367d by Ismael Asensio. Committed on 30/03/2022 at 22:12. Pushed by iasensio into branch 'master'. Speaker Test: Show playback errors in the UI Errors produced when trying to play a sound were being ignored. Show them in the spaker test UI, so it can help users to find their cause. The error strings are provided directly by libcanberra, so i18n will be probably missing for them. M +78 -63 src/kcm/package/contents/ui/main.qml M +22 -12 src/speakertest.cpp M +2 -1 src/speakertest.h https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-pa/commit/5c8f12699bdffd2e2b6f56adcf4bbba2fd46367d
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > Works for me with current git master. > > If you run `kcmshell5 kcm_pulseaudio` in a terminal window and try to tets > audio, do you see any errors printed to the terminal window when you click > the buttons? Visible error message (before even test button is pressed): kf.coreaddons: "Could not load plugin from kcm_pulseaudio: The shared library was not found." No additional information about which plugin/library, no info in session-log. /usr/lib/qt5/plugins/kcms/kcm_pulseaudio.so and all dependencies (as shown by ldd) installed. Distro is Void-Linux.
If started with strace it seems that the subdirectory `kcms` is not in the search path, so `kcm_pulseaudio` itself isn't found, but the audio test UI is displayed. With a symbolic link to `/usr/lib/qt5/plugins` kcmshell5 loads the plugin without error message in the terminal. Unfortunately still no test sound. Strange. Distro specific issue?
Yes, this seems like a packaging/installation issue indeed. I'd encourage you to contact your distro packagers about it.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-pa/-/merge_requests/116