[SGVLUG] Debian Sound Issues with sudo?

[Dima Kogan]

Are you getting error messages, or is it successfully producing no
sound? Do you know what you're getting out of pulse and pipewire? If
not, I strongly suggest getting rid of them: actually uninstall the
packages, and kill the daemons. If you're not getting error messages,
then something is successfully consuming the data, and one of these
daemons would be my guess. And even if it's not them, your debugging
problem would become simpler.