Ubuntu
pipewire package

  1. Bug #1975823
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 1975823

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Lukas Wiest (lukas-wiest) wrote : Re: pipewire alsa blocks after initial buffer size of data got written

Hey short feedback from my side:

I made a fresh install of the daily downloaded on 2022-06-21.
Pulseaudio is not preinstalled anymore, the /etc/alsa folder completely non-existent.
This makes it at least not break fully, but still not working quite right.

So, installing it in a VM, having just one audio device at all this works fine.

But installing it on my actual hardware leaves the alsa use always an output one off from what's selected in the system settings, resulting in either sound comes out of the wrong output or isn't audible at all as it's trying to access an output out of index.

Solution for this was to
- install pipewire-audio-client-libraries (which creates a /etc/alsa/conf.d/50-pipewire.conf)
- copy or link /usr/share/doc/pipewire/examples/alsa.conf.d/99-pipewire-default.conf to /etc/alsa/conf.d

Only installing pipewire-audio-client-libraries wasn't enough, the 99-pipewire-default.conf was needed as well.
After that the output of Alsa applications lines up with the system settings choosen one