Le 13/12/2021 à 06:40, Marc Shapiro via Dng a écrit :
> I was scrolling though my e-mail from the debian user group and I saw
> mention of pipewire, as a replacement for pulseaudio.  It seemed to
> suggest that it was in Testing, so would not be available on my Devuan
> Stable (chimaera) system, but I took a look, anyway.  It seems to be
> available, and, in fact, installed on my system.  It seems to have
> been brought in by zoom.
>
> So my question are:
>
> I have pipewire installed AND pulseaudio is still installed, as well. 
> Don't they do the same thing?  Shouldn't they be conflicting with each
> other?  My sound seems to be working fine. Is is using pulseaudio?  Or
> is it using pipewire?
>
> Is zoom using pipewire and everything else is using pulseaudio?
>
> If pipewire is meant as a replacement for pulseaudio, can I delete
> pulseaudio.  Will my sound, including upstream firefox, continue to work?


    On Chimaera, I have neither pipewire nor pulseaudio (nor zoom) and
sound is working fine. If zoom requires the pulseaudio API, you might
well use apulse instead.

     -- Didier