0008138: Audio/Video Issues w/ PulseAudio & Terminal Beep Disabled - Kali Linux Bug Tracker

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0008138	Kali Linux	General Bug	public	2023-01-10 09:52	2023-01-10 21:29

Reporter	enropash	Assigned To	daniruiz
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	closed	Resolution	duplicate
Product Version	2022.4

Summary	0008138: Audio/Video Issues w/ PulseAudio & Terminal Beep Disabled
Description	Having Audio and Video Playback issues on Kali 2022.4 kali/rolling with VMware Workstation Pro v17. Trying different browsers, etc. no luck. What fixed it for me was the following: https://gist.github.com/the-spyke/2de98b22ff4f978ebf0650c90e82027e Install codecs for LDAC (SBC is included out of the box): `$ sudo apt install libldacbt-{abr,enc}2` Install remaining PipeWire packages and WirePlumber as the session manager: `$ sudo apt install \ libspa-0.2-bluetooth \ pipewire-audio-client-libraries \ pipewire-media-session- \ wireplumber` Notice '-' at the end of 'pipewire-media-session'. This is to remove it in the same command, because 'wireplumber' will be used instead. Start WirePlumber for your user: `$ systemctl --user --now enable wireplumber.service` The terminal beep was also no longer working due to being disabled via `xset b off` in the Application Autostart menu "Disable logout beep" ... This disabled all beeps, not just logout beep. Once unchecked that box, the terminal beeps worked again.
Steps To Reproduce	Update to latest kali in rolling ... Attempt to play video in browser (i.e. youtube) Beep issue: echo "\a" in terminal did not work

arnaudr 2023-01-05 08:02 manager ~0017383	The terminal beep was also no longer working due to being disabled via `xset b off` in the Application Autostart menu "Disable logout beep" ... This disabled all beeps, not just logout beep. Once unchecked that box, the terminal beeps worked again. You're right, we'll fix the wording.

arnaudr 2023-01-05 08:04 manager ~0017384	Regarding the audio issue now. Pulseaudio is on its way out, being replaced by Pipewire. At some point we'll do the switch in Kali as well (seems like XUbuntu will do it soon as well). We're just not sure what bugs will go away, and what new bugs will appear :) In any case, at this point, when you have audio issues, installing wireplumber as you did is maybe the best thing to do.

kali-bugreport 2023-01-08 22:38 reporter ~0017385	Seems #0008135 has been cloned from this as "private" wrongly and that one should be closed as a dup

kali-bugreport 2023-01-10 21:05 reporter ~0017391	Yet another wrongly cloned issue... Dup of 0008103

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2023-01-10 09:52	enropash	New Issue
2023-01-10 09:52	enropash	Issue generated from: 0008103
2023-01-10 21:05	kali-bugreport	Note Added: 0017391
2023-01-10 21:29	daniruiz	Assigned To	=> daniruiz
2023-01-10 21:29	daniruiz	Status	new => closed
2023-01-10 21:29	daniruiz	Resolution	open => duplicate
2023-01-10 21:29	daniruiz	Relationship added	duplicate of 0008103