On Mon, 12 Sep 2022 14:43:31 +0200 Magnus Jørgensen <magnusmj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I finally found a solution to this problem. > If I install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio then ALSA audio also works on my > desktop computer. > But why this difference? > I have a different answer than Stephen. When pulseauudio is installed (not sure about pipewire, but probably the same), all alsa sound is then by default routed to pulseaudio. To use alsa directly, it is necessary to disable the device in pulseaudio, using either pavucontrol or pactl / pacmd. I think what was happening was that your application expected to interact with alsa, and instead was interacting with pulseaudio, which it didn't understand. By installing the package, you allowed pulseaudio to translate between itself and the application that expected to talk to alsa. Instead of turning off the device to pulseaudio and allowing the application to talk directly to alsa, you now are allowing the application to be translated by pulseaudio, so alsa to pulseaudio to alsa instead of alsa. This is the description of that package: Description : This plugin allows any program that uses the ALSA API to access a PulseAudio sound daemon. In other words, native ALSA applications can play and record sound across a network. There are two plugins in the suite, one for PCM and one for mixer control. _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
