On 12/13/21 00:30, Didier Kryn wrote:
> 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

Do you have firefox running?  I was under the impression that it
requires pulseaudio.  At least it did at one time.  That is why I
installed pulseaudio in the first place.

Marc