Thursday, November 27, 2025

No audio in KDE on OpenBSD – “No audio devices found”

Hello,

I've installed the KDE desktop environment on OpenBSD, but after logging into KDE, there is no sound, and the system reports "No audio devices found."

I've already verified the following:

The sndiod daemon is running and enabled at boot (rcctl enable sndiod);
My user account is a member of the _sndio group, and I've relogged in;
Audio works fine from the terminal (e.g., aucat -i /usr/share/misc/au/chimes.au);
I'm using official pre-built packages installed via pkg_add (including KDE and Qt5).

However, KDE's System Settings > Sound still shows no audio devices, and many KDE applications (e.g., Dolphin, Kaffeine) cannot produce sound.

Do I need additional configuration to make Qt/KDE use sndio? Or is this a known compatibility issue?

Thank you for any advice!

Best regards,

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