On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 12:40:30AM +0200, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Wednesday September 20 2023 13:12:02 A. F. Cano wrote:
> >ps -aux shows pipewire is running. Kmix, that I had to install as it
> >didn't come installed by default, only shows the dummy output device.
>
> On my system I often have to restart KMix after restarting the PA daemon,
On Debian testing the PA daemon is not running. What is running is:
$ ps aux | grep pipewire
afc 1496 0.0 0.3 120476 14592 ? S<sl 21:51 0:00 /usr/bin/pipewire
afc 1497 0.0 0.1 96348 6400 ? Ssl 21:51 0:00 /usr/bin/pipewire -c filter-chain.conf
afc 1500 0.0 0.2 103332 10232 ? S<sl 21:51 0:00 /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse
afc 3335 0.0 0.0 6344 2176 pts/4 S+ 22:06 0:00 grep pipewire
> but that's mostly to get the volume control buttons to work again. KDE uses
> Phonon for audio output, preferably with the Phonon VLC backend. This used
> to give you a choice out of all detected audio devices plus the pulseaudio
> (PA) daemon, in the version I have installed nowadays it has to be PA. IIRC
> there is a compatibility layer in PipeWire that makes it visible to
> applications that only support PA; you'll probably want to install that.
I see that there is a package called pipewire-audio-client-libraries,
whose purpose is:
This package contains client libraries allowing programs designed for
the ALSA, JACK and PulseAudio APIs to use a PipeWire server for audio
playback and recording. They are not used by default, and are currently
considered to be experimental.
But it depends on pipewire-alsa which, even after selecting it, aptitude
refuses to install. It fixes the dependency problem by not installing
either.
> If you have already and it still doesn't work ... I'm out of ideas.
Looks like this is a problem caused by the transition from pulseaudio to
pipewire and KDE on Debian still doesn't have it strightened out.
Thanks for the info. I'll keep at it.
Augustine
