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stultumanto

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Registered: 2023-12-12

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Re: How to: Devuan 5 Daedalus an pipewire

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

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Registered: 2017-04-07

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Re: How to: Devuan 5 Daedalus an pipewire

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.

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rolfie

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Registered: 2017-11-25

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Re: How to: Devuan 5 Daedalus an pipewire

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.

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