On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 13:28:46 +0200, Alessandro wrote in message
<8f93620b-bccd-92b8-a6b0-32f6ce5103fb@???>:

> Hi all,
>
> now I have this new package, pipewire, which I don't recall. If I
> try to uninstall it, apt-get would automatically install pulseaudio,
> which I had removed a long time ago.
>
> Pipewire is not running. If I launch it, it raises a bunch of errors.

..yup, because it needs wireplumber. Install and start wireplumber,
then start pipewire (Or was it the other way around? I run too long
sessions.) then try alsamixer, which should show "Pipewire" both as
"Card" and "Chip" and one volume bar.

>
> Audio programs don't play. For example:
>
> ale@pcale:~$ speaker-test
>
> speaker-test 1.2.8
>
> Playback device is default
> Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels
> Using 16 octaves of pink noise
> Playback open error: -112,Host is down
>
> Only Audacity works, but I have to tell it to play directly to the
> sound card (what else? I never used Jack or similar stuff.)
>
> I guess something in Daedalus tells all programs to go through
> pipewire, and I should unnecessarily learn how to configure it? Why
> can't I just eliminate it?

..because you threw out the pötter code we don't trust here and
installed unfinished that needs bug fix volonteers like yourself
to test out the bug fixes we propose you try, so we can get it fixed.

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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.