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> On 27 Jul 2022, at 07:18, Madhu <enometh@××××.net> wrote: |
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>>>>>>> On Tue, 26 Jul 2022, Sam James wrote: |
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>>> +2. To use PulseAudio's daemon for sound, users should disable |
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>>> USE=sound-server for PipeWire, + enable USE=daemon on |
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>>> media-sound/pulseaudio, and add media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon to |
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>>> their world file: |
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>> "The text body should be wrapped at 72 characters." |
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>> https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0042.html#news-item-body |
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> This is unecessarily restrictive to force the user to choose between |
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> pipewire and pulseaudio for the sound server. It is possible (I am |
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> running it now), and should be possible for gentoo to have both |
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> installed simultaneously and run one or the other at any given time, |
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> through configuration files. |
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> [I think the only patch that is required is for |
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> alsa-plugins/pulse/conf_pulse.c: (conf_pulse_hook_load_if_running) |
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> which can be taught to check if the pipewire daemon is running and |
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> quit that particular module. but it is not pipewire aware yet] |
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Patches welcome but this is the status quo and documenting the status |
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quo is important. |
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But... making it easy to choose one or the other is important. |
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Your described method doesn't sound like it would be deterministic |
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or predictable. |