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| author | V3n3RiX <venerix@koprulu.sector> | 2022-07-31 09:12:05 +0100 |
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| committer | V3n3RiX <venerix@koprulu.sector> | 2022-07-31 09:12:05 +0100 |
| commit | 100ce16c6fb75a4911f388aa77f860324607c869 (patch) | |
| tree | de54fe6a6fd7ceb7a41fdf2b03b666c479794055 /metadata/news/2022-07-29-pipewire-sound-server | |
| parent | 6262f7e48882f381dea4a0751717f65e6abd212f (diff) | |
gentoo auto-resync : 31:07:2022 - 09:12:04
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| -rw-r--r-- | metadata/news/2022-07-29-pipewire-sound-server/2022-07-29-pipewire-sound-server.en.txt | 23 |
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diff --git a/metadata/news/2022-07-29-pipewire-sound-server/2022-07-29-pipewire-sound-server.en.txt b/metadata/news/2022-07-29-pipewire-sound-server/2022-07-29-pipewire-sound-server.en.txt index 0cb4a2d73ddf..31283c0b1bd1 100644 --- a/metadata/news/2022-07-29-pipewire-sound-server/2022-07-29-pipewire-sound-server.en.txt +++ b/metadata/news/2022-07-29-pipewire-sound-server/2022-07-29-pipewire-sound-server.en.txt @@ -46,8 +46,9 @@ There are several options available: Deselect media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon: # emerge --deselect media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon - Then perform a world upgrade: - # emerge --ask --update --changed-use --deep @world + Then perform a world upgrade with PipeWire on the command line to add + it to the world file: + # emerge --ask --update --changed-use --deep @world media-video/pipewire Then depclean: # emerge --ask --depclean @@ -59,6 +60,24 @@ There are several options available: files will need to run `gentoo-pipewire-launcher &` in e.g. `~/.xprofile`. + Users who want to switch to PipeWire providing a PulseAudio daemon + may need to `emerge --deselect` packages in their world file which + hard-require media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon. There are only a handful + of these. A non-exhaustive list: + * media-sound/paprefs + * media-sound/pasystray + * media-sound/pulseaudio-modules-bt (shouldn't be needed anyway) + * net-misc/pulseaudio-dlna + + If not using any of those packages anymore, please emerge --deselect + them. If still using these, PipeWire as a PulseAudio is not an + option at this time. + + (Note that media-libs/libpulse (which PipeWire will be using, don't emerge + libpulse manually) provides 'pactl' which can be used as a replacement for + e.g. media-sound/pulseaudio-ctl, so personal scripts can be adapted to this + if desired.) + systemd users will also need to run the following commands: $ systemctl --user --now disable pulseaudio.service pulseaudio.socket $ systemctl --user --now enable pipewire.socket pipewire-pulse.socket |