[pulseaudio-discuss] Fedora's default installation seems ... uh... Quite Different!

[Denis Shulyaka]

Fedora uses pipewire instead of pulseaudio on default installations. You
should either interface pipewire to your pulseaudio server or replace
pipewire with pulseaudio.

чт, 6 июл. 2023 г. в 07:14, Richard <padude at sciencetools.com>:

>
>
> Hi Pulse Audiophiles,
>
> I'm trying to do about what the Pulse Whole Home Audio project was trying
> to do (did?), but the link to that is non-functional, and I presume it's
> defunct. So, I'm trying to do it on my own.
>
> However, I'm a bit stymied right "out of the gate" because my installation
> "looks nothing like" what the documentation says I should find.
>
> To be clear, all the systems but two lowly Windows boxes are on Fedora,
> and most of these on the new 38 server release that came out a couple of
> months ago - I'm starting with one of these. The pulse packages are:
>
> pulseaudio-libs-16.1-4.fc38.x86_64
> pulseaudio-libs-glib2-16.1-4.fc38.x86_64
> pulseaudio-utils-16.1-4.fc38.x86_64
> pipewire-pulseaudio-0.3.71-2.fc38.x86_64
> pavucontrol-5.0-8.fc38.x86_64
>
> ...And if I try and install paprefs, it complains:
>
>   Problem: problem with installed package
> pipewire-pulseaudio-0.3.71-2.fc38.x86_64
>
> (I've also tried installing "pulse-audio*" with similar results.)
>
> That said, though there's no reference to Fedora in the FAQ, I PRESUME
> there's some web page somewhere to help folks like me figure out the
> differences of this distribution?! I say that because I can't be alone in
> these experiences:
>
> When I try and look for things, there is no /usr/bin/pulseaudio binary,
> for example, though in /etc/pulse are client.conf and default.pa.
> (default.pa has one active line and one comment line - I don't recall
> editing it but MAYBE I did some weeks back?! The file is dated June 17.)
>
> When I try pacmd list-modules, I get:
>
> No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
>
> And there doesn't appear to be any obvious way to even start a daemon - no
> executable?!
>
> If I try launching pavucontrol, I get a white pop-up that says,
> "Establishing a connection to PulseAudio. Please wait..." and it never
> returns even though music is playing!
>
> Etc.
>
> A gentle push in the right direction, please?!
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
>
>

-- 
Best regards,
Denis Shulyaka
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