No audio in Vivaldi browser under Tumbleweed

[georgep]

This may to be a Tumbleweed problem, because I have 3 distros on the same laptop, and the audio DOES work in Vivaldi on the other two (Mint and Kaos). Further, I have Vivaldi installed as a flatpak with --user, and so the SAME vivaldi is shared among all three distros.

Audio in Vivaldi WAS working in TW until sometime within the past week.

I’m running TW (and Kaos) with KDE plasma. Mint is using the Cinnamon desktop.

On TW, audio DOES work from the system settings, in VLC, and in the Brave, and Chrome browsers (which I installed for testing). Just no audio in Vivaldi (which is based on Chromium and so related to the other two browsers). Of course, this evidence suggests this might NOT be a TW problem, but a Vivaldi problem!

Any advice appreciated.

System info:

Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20241206
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.8.0
Qt Version: 6.8.1
Kernel Version: 6.11.8-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics
Memory: 30.7 GB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon 780M
Manufacturer: Framework
Product Name: Laptop 16 (AMD Ryzen 7040 Series)
System Version: A7

[myswtest]

@georgep

Further, I have Vivaldi installed as a flatpak with --user, and so the SAME vivaldi is shared among all three distros.

Just to be clear - based on that statement above, we should assume you’ve got one single /home on a separate partition, and all three distros mount that /home (?).

[georgep]

@myswtest Yes, that is oorrect - a single home partition which is mounted by each distro when the distro is running.

[georgep]

After some discussion in the Vivaldi on Linux forum, and some testing, I found that the stable version of the Chromium browser, on which Vivaldi is based, also has this problem. HOWEVER, I installed the beta version of Chromium, and that DID play audio.

So the problem is fixed and I just need to wait for the fix to migrate to Vivaldi.

(I’m hooked on Vivaldi because one can have left side tabs, can use workspaces, and can tile 2 or more tabs - all good stuff.)

[gogalthorp]

If you use one /home between multiple do you have separate users for each distro?? Different distro’ may ave different versions of programs and they may have conflicting config files and caches. And these files live in the users directory.