Re: pipewire and wireplumber

[R. G. Newbury]

Geoffrey Leach  wrote:
> I'm happy for you. For me, not so much :-(
> > > I've just installed Fedora 35 and have discovered to my dismay that
> > > previously-working (not at all sophisticated) audio no longer works.
> > >
> > > Is there a 'Getting Started With pipewire' and/or wireplumber somewhere?
> >
> > Or
> > > should they 'just work' and I need to check my connections?
> >
> > Bob Marcan wrote:
> > systemctl --user --now disable  wireplumber
> > works for me.
> > Obviously we are guinea pigs for this premature piece of software.

Could not agree more with the last sentence. To get audio recognized
in order I did this:
systemctl stop wireplumber.service
dnf  erase wireplumber
systemctl stop pipewire-pulse.service pipewire-pulse.socket
systemctl stop pipewire.service pipewire.socket
systemctl daemon-reload
dnf --skip-broken erase pipewire pipewire-* libpipewire* 
pipewire-media-session pipewire-pulseaudio*

dnf -y install plasma-desktop
# An error message said that plasma-desktop was deleted although that 
does not appear to be true

systemctl stop elogd.service
dnf  erase elog*
# I tried installing elog to get the global XDG_RUNTIME_DIR set: no joy 
doing that.

dnf --allowerasing --skip-broken --best install alsa* 
kde-settings-pulseaudio
dnf --allowerasing --skip-broken --best install pulseaudio* 
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
dnf --allowerasing install pavucontrol pulseaudio-module-zeroconf

The TL:DR is, that I re-installed alsa and pulseaudio after a couple of 
hours spent trying to get *anything* to connect to the hardware.

Geoff

pipewire and wireplumber

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2022-03-25 at 00:42 -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> > > Obviously we are guinea pigs for this premature piece of
> > > software.
>
> Could not agree more with the last sentence.

Bear in mind that Fedora is where we are always guinea pigs to some
extent. That's part of the deal.

poc

pipewire and wireplumber

[Steve Underwood]

On 25/03/2022 04:42, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> Geoffrey Leach  wrote:
> > Obviously we are guinea pigs for this premature piece of software.
>
> Could not agree more with the last sentence. To get audio recognized

It works both ways. I have had long term problems with pulseaudio that 
disappeared when I tried an early version of pipewire for Fedora, in the 
days before pipewire became the default. Pipewire wasn't really complete 
the last time I checked. Specifically, surround sound with PCM was 
buggy, and surround sound with things like AC3, which worked with 
pulseaudio, didn't work at all with pipewire. However, for stereo setups 
it fixed all the problems I had.

Regards,

Steve