Request addition to pipewire config - auto switch

[wbrells]

Thanks for all the comments, but my MX 23 system does not have a /usr/share/pipewire/ directory so I can't test any of the above suggestions. Do I need to install one of the pipewire packages from the Enabled Repos? Would the appropriate package be pipewire-setup-mx (version 23.12.04) or would one of the other package(s) be better?

Thanks, Wayne

[Charlie Brown]

I guess you posted in the wrong thread (and you meant this: viewtopic.php?p=774234#p774234 ). Normally pipewire is ootb and that path is also present ootb. And it seems you installed Pulseaudio and that removed Pipewire automatically.

[wbrells]

I certainly did not specifically install Pulseaudio in place of Pipewire. I've looked at both the default kernel for MX 23.2 (Debian 64 bit) and the 6.6.11-1~mx23ahs kernel that I'm currently using, and both of them seem to use Pulseaudio. Is there a particular kernel for 23.2 that uses Pipewire? If not, should I install it (how)?

Thanks, Wayne

[Charlie Brown]

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sudo apt update ; sudo apt reinstall gstreamer1.0-pipewire gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio libcanberra-pulse libpipewire-0.3-0 libpipewire-0.3-modules libpulse-mainloop-glib0 libpulse0 libpulsedsp libsox-fmt-pulse libwireplumber-0.4-0 pipewire-alsa pipewire-bin pipewire-jack pipewire-pulse pipewire-setup-mx pipewire pulseaudio-utils wireplumber xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin -y

[dolphin_oracle]

posting quick-system-info will clear this up. pipewire uses the same tools as pulseaudio, and provides a pulseaudio server compatibility.

[Charlie Brown]

QSI is on the other thread :)

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Audio:     Device-1: Intel driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl 
           bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:54c8 class-ID: 0403 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k6.6.11-amd64 running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes 

[wbrells]

Does the above audio 'snippet' from my QSI listing indicate that pipewire is NOT installed and that the above commands can be used to install it? If so, it seems odd that pipewire is not automatically included (so it seems) in any of the MX 23.2 kernels...

Wayne

[dolphin_oracle]

Does the above audio 'snippet' from my QSI listing indicate that pipewire is NOT installed and that the above commands can be used to install it? If so, it seems odd that pipewire is not automatically included (so it seems) in any of the MX 23.2 kernels...

Wayne

yes.

pipewire is the defualt on all official mx 23 releases. so somewhere along the way some package install on your part probably installed pulseaudio, which removed pipewire.

also, pipewire is not part of the kernel. its a stand alone sound server.

[wbrells]

Thanks very much for the info - I had no idea that pipewire was NOT included in the kernel!

I'm not sure what program/package I may have installed that removed pipewire. This problem may have arisen because I did an in-place update from MX 21.3 to MX 23.2 rather than a fresh install of 23.2. (The in-place update saved me a HUGE amount of time and except perhaps for pipewire does not seem to have caused any problems.)

In any case, I will reinstall pipewire via the instructions above and report the results.

Thanks again for all your help,

Wayne

[dolphin_oracle]

ah an in place upgrade would not have pipewire.