Hello,
I recently completed an installation of artix-linux-x86_64-base-openrc and although things are going swimmingly, there are a few things that I have yet to figure out. I will thusly be dividing my post into three posts.
This post will be specifically concerning pipewire, and ALSA.
I have exhausted the search results on the internet and it seems that no one else has had this issue. I feel like I'm missing something that is common knowledge among the rest of you.
Assuming I have installed no packages and edited no files, what must I do to have sound on my computer?
Thank you to anyone who takes the time to respond! That is all thank you!
You need to run pipewire, and also install and run wireplumber. Then you should be good.
Make a script to launch them at startup and good to go.
I use pipewire-pulse as well, although I don't know if that's necessary.
Hello,
I have been using alsa only for several years.
I removed all pulse packets except libpulse and libcanberra.
I use alsa and the nice and very practical qastools mixer on different pc:
https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,4318.msg27848.html#msg27848
Note: I don't play games and don't use wine or steam.
But I have sound in all my apps.
Update:
So I realized that my folly previously had been the manner in which I was attempting to start pipewire and wireplumber.
I was using the "&&" operator in a one liner. Consequentially wireplumber would not start.
I considered the possibility that I needed to do additional configuration, although I guess the programs were smarter than I knew.
I recently tried running the programs in separate terminals, and this gave me audio!
I will need to tune the pipewire / wireplumber. Although, I can change the volume and it does work!
Thank you for taking the time to reply to me. I will mark this post as solved.