On Monday, 3 October 2022 22:48:09 BST Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > Den 02.10.2022 11:47, skrev Michael: > > On Saturday, 1 October 2022 19:32:11 BST Daniel Sonck wrote: > >> On zaterdag 1 oktober 2022 19:11:19 CEST Wol wrote: > >>> On 01/10/2022 17:56, Michael wrote: > >>>> Anyway, I ventured into pipewire because I wanted to see if Skype would > >>>> work without pulseaudio and in this system it won't. After I manually > >>>> installed pipewire Skype won't access the microphone. 🙁 > >>> > >>> I've got some vague feeling that pipewire is designed to happily sit > >>> under pulseaudio. The design aim was to replace both Jack and pulseaudio > >>> but it basically just presents a sound device to the layers above, so > >>> just like you can stack block devices for disk access, you can stack > >>> jack, pulseaudio and pipewire for sound. > >> > >> Well, it is actually designed as a drop-in replacement and won't present > >> audio devices in the sense pulseaudio wants to receive it. I guess it > >> would > >> theoretically be possible to use pulseaudio's jack sink to talk to > >> pipewire, but pipewire has the full pulseaudio interface for pulseaudio > >> applications. > > > > At the moment only some applications support PipeWire's native API, but > > most support PulseAudio's API. When you come across an application like > > Skype which expects PulseAudio, the solution is to enable > > USE="sound-server pipewire-alsa" for PipeWire and in addition to PipeWire > > also install media- libs/libpulse. No other PulseAudio packages are > > needed. > > To get that, I seem to need media-sound/pulseaudio (meta package) with > USE="-daemon"
This USE flag setting would be required if you use pulseaudio (I don't have it installed) and need to avoid it fighting with pipewire over control of audio devices. At the present moment, because the migration to pipewire is work-in-progress, there are a number of options available to cover all use cases, depending on your system configuration and init system: https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2022-07-29-pipewire-sound-server.html
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