Dev1 Galaxy Forum / [SOLVED] Help! I cannot get Pipewire working.

Re: [SOLVED] Help! I cannot get Pipewire working.

dummy@example.com (mirrortokyo) — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 03:31:05 +0000

Continuing on the bleeding edge, having pipewire start with no delay on kernel 6.14.0-rc7.

Re: [SOLVED] Help! I cannot get Pipewire working.

dummy@example.com (mirrortokyo) — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 01:24:30 +0000

I was getting pipewire starting reliably on new hardware (sometimes a bit delayed). After Ceres upgraded libc6 to 2.41-4, I am again having to logout and log in again following a power on to get pipewire working.

Re: [SOLVED] Help! I cannot get Pipewire working.

dummy@example.com (mirrortokyo) — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 14:34:28 +0000

KDE/Plasma seems to keep reading a lot of stuff from disk on inital login, which may be holding up something that pipewire start-up needs.

Once it is all cached in RAM, a logout/login cycle avoids the reading from disk.

Re: [SOLVED] Help! I cannot get Pipewire working.

dummy@example.com (EDX-0) — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:43:27 +0000

daemon is on the repos and i will say is a good solution all things considered.

regardless i'm still working on this: https://github.com/eylles/shed with the goal of perhaps having a release this month.

Re: [SOLVED] Help! I cannot get Pipewire working.

dummy@example.com (mirrortokyo) — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 03:13:46 +0000

I have been using in .xsessionrc

/usr/bin/daemon --bind --respawn --pidfiles=$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR --name=pipewire /usr/bin/pipewire
/usr/bin/daemon --bind --respawn --pidfiles=$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR --name=pipewire-pulse /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse
/usr/bin/daemon --bind --respawn --pidfiles=$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR --name=pipewire-wireplumber /usr/bin/wireplumber

but sometimes I have to log out and log in again for the sound card to be recognised. The sound card is fine and I don't have to do anything more than logging out and in again, but it would be great if it worked every time.

Re: [SOLVED] Help! I cannot get Pipewire working.

dummy@example.com (stultumanto) — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 06:41:09 +0000

this has been discussed here
this has been discussed here .... I suggest, please use the search function before you post.
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=5867

This was covered upthread. The user said he already tried it.
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=47526#p47526

Re: [SOLVED] Help! I cannot get Pipewire working.

dummy@example.com (GlennW) — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 22:14:25 +0000

this has been discussed here .... I suggest, please use the search function before you post.

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=5867

Re: [SOLVED] Help! I cannot get Pipewire working.

dummy@example.com (JWM-Kit) — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 18:12:24 +0000

When I configured for pipewire all I did was install pipewire-media-session
That's the magic that worked for me. it conflicts with wireplumber so it will be uninstalled.

Then I added /usr/bin/pipewire and /usr/bin/pipewire-media-session to my startup

It works fine for me. Maybe it will work for you.

Re: [SOLVED] Help! I cannot get Pipewire working.

dummy@example.com (rolfie) — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 17:40:10 +0000

Following that guide exactly did work for me. Pipewire works flawlessly on my travelling laptop.

Re: [SOLVED] Help! I cannot get Pipewire working.

dummy@example.com (DavidRLTG) — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 17:21:44 +0000

Agh, I ended up switching back to Pulseaudio after all, as this has been a painful experience.
Thank you all for trying to help, and have a great day

Re: [SOLVED] Help! I cannot get Pipewire working.

dummy@example.com (DavidRLTG) — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 16:56:05 +0000

God, This is a mess.
No idea how I'll get audio working again

Re: [SOLVED] Help! I cannot get Pipewire working.

dummy@example.com (DavidRLTG) — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 16:46:22 +0000

Also, StopAI, I didn't add them before but after installing it didn't work. So I tried adding custom files. Didn't help. I removed them all now and tried the command, no shot. Still a mess.

Re: [SOLVED] Help! I cannot get Pipewire working.

dummy@example.com (DavidRLTG) — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 16:44:29 +0000

Now I need to somehow get the script to successfully run at startup, and fix the weird libcamera error

Re: [SOLVED] Help! I cannot get Pipewire working.

dummy@example.com (stopAI) — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 16:44:11 +0000

After that, I added an executable file

And for what purpose did you do it? Apt configures packages automatically....

I have no idea what to do anymore

The fact that you manually moved those files to places they don't belong is very bad. I don't know what to advise. You can try to manually remove those files and install the package group with command

sudo apt install pipewire-audio

But to be honest, I don't know if it will help...it's worth a try.

Re: [SOLVED] Help! I cannot get Pipewire working.

dummy@example.com (DavidRLTG) — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 16:43:57 +0000

Small update:
https://imgur.com/L34NmZU.png