stumpi:
Ok. So. No idea why, but I logged out, logged back in with KDE (x11, not wayland) and audio for at least one of the debian based templates works?! BUT, not totally. It sounds normal (no crackling) but its still silent until I unplug the audio jack and then plug it back in. I’m just plugging my little 2.1 computer speakers directly into the audio jack on the mobo, no usb cards etc. When I look its “analog stereo output + stereo input” but when I unplug it the playback device goes to “digital stereo (HDMI) output + stereo input” but then when I plug it goes back to “analog stereo output + stereo input”. I guess this is the “manual version” of changing ti playback device via the audio interface - that I try to play another bit of audio and in order to hear the sound I have to switch from “analog stereo output + stereo input” to something else then back to “analog stereo output + stereo input” and I can hear it again?
Are you able to open PulseAudio Volume Control using pavucontrol command?
I guess something is wrong in your dom0, it should be either pipewire or pulseaudio, not both.
Recent updates include a migrating audio in dom0 from pulseaudio to pipewire. It should improve audio quality, especially for qubes already using pipewire too (all Fedora, and newer Debian). Related issue: Audio underruns in dom0 soon after uncorking stream · Issue #8955 · QubesOS/qubes-issues · GitHub . In theory the switch should be seamless and everything should remain working as it was,
but since it’s rather drastic change it needs some more testing.
The switch is implemented in qubes-dom0-…