[SOLVED] No audio on Excalibur through pipewire on KDE wayland

steve_v · Today 08:00:25

mildly fun way to do something I can work on for myself, although even if I do, it wont be soon.

Yeah, figuring it out was kinda fun while it lasted. Now that OpenRC has user-services, I expect that's the way I'll go next time I feel like messing with it.

IMO, for all its other flaws, systemd user-units aren't inherently a bad idea. The trick is, as usual, implementing something comparable without falling into the same scope-creep tarpit.
Devuan is going to need a generic solution sooner or later, if they're willing to embrace OpenRC as a first-class (or even default) init system, it can just be leeched off Gentoo and the solution already in testing.
If they want to cling to sysvinit as the default, we need something else... Which will likely have to be a Devuan project or a colab with Slackware, since pretty much everyone else has moved on from pure sysv.

At the very least, shipping an interim launcher in shell (aka. nicking gentoo-pipewire-launcher) and packaging some simple xdg-autostart files that work with common DEs would go a long way to alleviating the "I installed the default KDE desktop and stuff doesn't work" pain. It's not exactly a lot of work either.

self contradictory statement

Yeah, and for what it's worth I'm not usually quite as confrontational as I have been lately... This pattern from the admin(s) has been going on a long while, and today I just had a gutsfull of it.
Sorry that it was your intro to this board and all that.

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brocashelm · Today 08:13:29

All I will say is that I'm quite surprised this dumpster fire of a thread is STILL GOING (long after the issue had been marked as solved), when that "joke" thread has been locked not one, but two times already -- and all it took for the latter action was an undesirable regular getting shit on. Greenjeans and I were the only ones who actually posted content that WAS on-topic, instead of dad "jokes" or back-and-forth pessimistic arguing.

steve_v · Today 08:17:00

pessimistic arguing

Wait, this isn't this go and ralph's pessimistic arguing club? I must have taken a wrong turn somewhere, I swear that's what thesign on the door said...

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radiatedradio · Today 08:18:14

Devuan is going to need a generic solution sooner or later, if they're willing to embrace OpenRC as a first-class (or even default) init system, it can just be leeched off Gentoo and the solution already in testing.
If they want to cling to sysvinit as the default, we need something else... Which will likely have to be a Devuan project or a colab with Slackware, since pretty much everyone else has moved on from pure sysv.

Other than gentoo being mostly openrc 1st, devuan, artix etc. are all very fragmented in this way. And I think the people who use these kinds of distros want the choice between init systems, even if it comes with fixing stuff, but that doesn't really excuse a by-default broken desktop IMO. But I would also expect most people running these kinds of setups to not use wayland or pipewire, just the "tried and true method that worked on my box since 1997", which is also not what new users would (usually) want. This is my 1st time using wayland and pipewire too, I've always been on X, and for some reason I expected it to work (I don't know why).

brocashelm · Today 08:21:34

steve_v wrote:

Wait, this isn't this go and ralph's pessimistic arguing club? I must have taken a wrong turn somewhere, I swear that's what thesign on the door said...

Probably will be now, since I'm quoting your entire post. Whoops.

steve_v · Today 08:27:17

Wayland/pipewire does just work on other non-systemd distros. Not wanting to run systemd does tend to go well with avoiding modern software trends generally, but it's really not a package deal so-to-speak.
I'm running a bleeding-edge Gentoo openrc install, with X11 and pipewire. There's nothing mutually exclusive there, and mixing-and-matching your preferred components is a tradition as old as GNU/Linux itself. It's not even a particularly unusual combination as gentoo installs go.

If Devuan goes down the "reject anything new" path that certain voices seem to be pushing around here, all that is going to happen is a slow fade into irrelevance.

steve_v · Today 08:38:50

I'm quoting your entire post.

You full-quoted a post? Do you realise what you've done?

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brocashelm · Today 09:24:54

steve_v wrote:

You full-quoted a post? Do you realise what you've done?

Yup, doing it again. Next, I'm sure, is the deprecation of text highlighting...

Those poor, poor bits and bytes that could've been used for more whining instead.

steve_v · Today 10:01:03

brocashelm wrote:

steve_v wrote:
brocashelm wrote:
I'm quoting your entire post.
You full-quoted a post? Do you realise what you've done?
Yup, doing it again. Next, I'm sure, is the deprecation of text highlighting...
Those poor, poor bits and bytes that could've been used for more whining instead.

Aww, nesting only goes 3 deep, this board is no fun. *waits patiently for fun-police*

Maybe we have to say his name thrice or something?
...Or it's just nap time.

ralph.ronnquist · Today 10:17:58

Yes.
Print it out, frame it and hang up on the wall.
Then you can show your kids and grand kids how adults do things.

golinux · Today 17:51:47

Seems like this thread has morphed into an ode to the passing of the torch from those whose brains were formed before the internet and those who have never really known true autonomy. This passing of the torch is nothing new but it has never before been a worldwide event. We play with the machine but it is the machine that owns us. We have become what we have collectively thought and imagined for decades and as usual, shot ourselves in the foot yet again. This is not progress. It is just repeating same mistake yet again. Humans never seem to learn . . .

steve_v · Today 17:56:11

Phew, so this is the go and ralph pessimisim club after all. Had me going for a bit there.

golinux · Today 18:21:57

steve_v . . . If our species survives the coming years, you may live long enough to experience this transition yourself. It is a well known and documented phenomena that has been a recurring theme in the arts for decades. But it is a different perspective to live it and it is quite unsettling to realize that your generation will never know the expansive freedom and autonomy that my generation had. That is not pessimism. That is observation. If I were a pessimist why would I still be beating my head against a brick wall supporting options for sane computing and putting up with your misdirected abuse? We really are on the same team but from different perspectives.

Are you aware that this very forum was one of my many contributions to devuan? Early on, I self-hosted it for several years before it was eventually taken up by the project.

steve_v · Today 18:47:26

Given prize exhibits a:

sub-human mutation

and b:

disgusting human being

What, exactly, makes you think I have any desire to further engage with you? You are a site admin, and this is the example you set? How repulsive.

Are you aware that this very forum was one of my many contributions to devuan?

Are you aware that I care not one iota? Spinning up a forum isn't rocket science, nor is it particularly commendable if the intent is to run it like a tin-pot dictatorship for one's own aggrandizement, with a regular side of crotchety spite and patronising babble.

Or did you think "go and ralph's pessimistic arguing club" was just a silly joke?

I'm quite happy to help out here where there are technical questions, or chat where there is mildly amusing (and mostly sane) conversation to be had. But you? You I am done dealing with.

Ed. You want to know how this looks from the outside? From the point of view of the "never enough devs" who you will never do anything but drive away? Go read radiatedradio's comment on the previous page.

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