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On Wednesday, 18 May 2022 11:02:21 BST Michael wrote: |
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> On Wednesday, 18 May 2022 09:51:57 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > On Saturday, 14 May 2022 17:34:58 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > > On Thursday, 5 May 2022 16:22:56 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > > > Is there a knack to getting my plasma desktop to operate happily with |
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> > > > my |
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> > > > new Bluetooth speakers? I can get a connection using the Bluetooth |
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> > > > control panel, and the sound device appears in the Audio control |
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> > > > panel, |
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> > > > but testing either speaker produces no sound. |
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> > > |
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> > > I think I've solved the problem. No, not BT but with a wired connection |
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> > > I |
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> > > do now have sound. BT can wait until I need it. |
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> > |
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> > Wrong again. In fact, the problem was that pulseaudio was not running. A |
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> > simple 'pulseaudio start' - et voila! Sound. |
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> > I found this along the way: |
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> > # pulseaudio --dump-conf |
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> > ### Read from configuration file: /etc/pulse/daemon.conf ### |
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> > daemonize = no |
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> > [...] |
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> > |
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> > Why is it set to No by default? Isn't PA deaf without the daemon running? |
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> Pulseaudio is currently set to "daemonize = no" by default and it should |
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> also be set "autospawn = no", in order for Plasma to use pipewire instead |
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> of pulseaudio. Pipewire is the new audio solution, which is meant to |
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> satisfy use cases previously addressed with pulseaudio and/or jack, |
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> although it should co-exist and work with both regardless. |
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> As I understand it originally udev would probe, auto-detect and hotplug |
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> devices, calling pulseaudio to process audio. I am not up to speed how |
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> pipewire now interacts with pulseaudio in depth, but I can see on a Plasma |
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> system which has pulseaudio installed, pipewire is launched and uses |
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> pipewire- pulse.conf: |
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> \_ /usr/bin/wireplumber |
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> \_ /usr/bin/pipewire |
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> \_ /usr/bin/pipewire -c pipewire-pulse.conf |
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> I have audio working, but no pulseaudio process shows up. |
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Somewhere around here I said I had too many USE flag staatements under /etc/ |
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portage, so I removed package.use and just set whatever flags were needed to |
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install all my packages. That was fine, but it meant that USE=pulseaudio was |
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only set on alsa-plugins, which was fine as far as it went, but nothing else |
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could use PA. Now that I've put pulseaudio back into make.conf and recompiled, |
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I hope for a quieter life, if you see what I mean... |
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Thanks again for everyone's patience. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |