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