How to: Devuan 5 Daedalus an pipewire

stultumanto · Yesterday 17:48:51

After installing pipewire, my ALSA mixer settings are now being reset every time I log in. It wouldn't be that bad if the defaults made sense, but it mutes and zeros-out almost every channel. Apparently wireplumber might have something to do with this, maybe, but I can't find any straight answers online.

Has anyone else dealt with this? I would be happy if I could figure out how to either disable it, or set new "sane" defaults. Why would it do this in the first place? Obviously, wherever I left the mixer settings when I logged out would be where I wanted them to be when I logged back in!

greenjeans · Yesterday 18:04:10

yeh, why do we even bother writing software right?

Is that more sarcasm? It's hard to tell on the internet. But here's something I read lately that helps me:

Manifesto for Creation

Make Without Permission

Assume invisibility. The world is flooded. No one seeing your work is normal.

Create for yourself first. The act is its own reward; the archive is your own treasure.

Separate making from showing. Build as if no one will ever see it — because often, they won’t.

Think in decades, not days. Your work might find its audience years later.

Plant seeds without knowing where they’ll root.

Value the one over the many. A single genuine connection outweighs a thousand empty views.

Use obscurity as freedom. No audience means no pressure — this is your laboratory phase.

Release and let go. You don’t control who finds the signal in the noise. Your job is to send it.

rolfie · Yesterday 20:05:43

My box is an upgraded Daedalus with Cinnamon as DE. I use the original script as posted in answer #8. The system is upgraded to Excalibur and works fine. I got sound@cinnamon.org as mixer, and no issues. works for me in my setup. Volume stays at the last setting.

Sorry, can't help you.

On my ToDo list I still have the task to switch to the script as shown in the Excalibur release notes.

Last edited by rolfie (Yesterday 21:12:18)

stultumanto · Today 02:19:39

Thanks for the feedback, rolfie. I guess PipeWire works better with your type of desktop install. That makes sense, I guess. Modern software is designed to work with modern setups. I just noticed this is now happening on both of the Devuan systems where I have installed PipeWire alongside xinit. When I shut down X, my mixer settings are unchanged, but when I restart X, PW has reset my audio devices. I need to test it on a system with a display manager, to see if that makes a difference.

I figured out a workaround for now. I saved a reasonable set of defaults to a file using alsactl, then put a line in my .xsessionrc to load these settings on a delay at startup. It isn't really a "fix," as it still resets my mixer settings every time I start an X session, but at least it loads a set of defaults that actually works.

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