[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1021179: pipewire-pulse: KDE Plasma+ALC4080 onboard card: unable to select working profile

[Maurizio Avogadro]

Package: pipewire-pulse
Version: 0.3.59-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

while within Gnome I can make the audio subsystem work by manually selecting
the "Play HiFi quality Music" profile (defined in ALSA UCM) of my onboard
Realtek ALC4080 USB audio card, in KDE Plasma its only available profile is
"off", which means no sound output is possible. This started to be a problem
since pipewire-pulse became a dependency of gnome-core.

For the HDMI audio device, which I don't use and I keep on its default "off"
profile, a working profile can instead be selected in both Gnome and KDE
Plasma: this makes me suspect I'm facing an issue that is specific to my sound
card, possibly having something to do with its UCM configuration.

Disabling and masking the pipewire user units and enabling back pulseaudio
solves the issue; the pipewire-pulse daemon aims to be a drop-in replacement
for pulseaudio.

The involved hardware is a MSI MAG X570S TORPEDO MAX mainboard with a Realtek
ALC4080 USB audio card onboard.

Thanks!


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 
'proposed-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), 
(500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.19.12-xanmod1-x64v2+amdnative (SMP w/16 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=it
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages pipewire-pulse depends on:
ii init-system-helpers 1.65.2
ii pipewire 0.3.59-1

pipewire-pulse recommends no packages.

Versions of packages pipewire-pulse suggests:
ii libspa-0.2-bluetooth 0.3.59-1
ii pulseaudio-utils 16.1+dfsg1-2

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