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I suspect that the problem appeared when I tried to remove some GUI packages (using DNF). The system boots fine into text mode, but can't boot into GUI anymore. I tried a new USB sound card (different chipset) with same results. Device driver loaded yet no audio comes out. So today I removed...

I don't have a desktop - running in text mode only. I don't have an internal sound card, only a USB sound card (so not switching to any other sound card). As for sound devices in use: COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME alsactl 1189 root 4r CHR 116,4 0t0 646...

I'm starting to suspect a driver issue, but not sure. Going in circles. I tried removing pipewire and just using alsa and still no audio...

As I dig deeper I'm wondering if the problem is that I waslogged in as 'root' - as the pipewire.socket service is not started. (I read a number of posts about pipewire not being available as root). So I switch and am now logged in as user 'admin' which is member of root and audio groups. When...

I decided to remove and then reinstall pipewire and dependencies, with an interesting result. When I run aplay or pw-play now, the playback does nothing, just hangs. According to 'ps' the command is suspended, and according to strace it is waiting (on epoll)...how can I figure out what...

I cannot restart graphical mode as I think I removed some packages needed by GUI....but there must be way to do it from text mode

I had audio working on my AlmaLinux 9 installation, using a USB sound card. I seemed to have changed something because I no longer hear audio (but AlmaLinux thinks its successfully playing a sound). I did switch from GUI to text mode on boot, but I don't think that should matter. I have no...