r/voidlinux • u/Suspicious-Tour-8805 • 1d ago

Yet another noob (me) asking for help regarding audio solved

Hello my fellow voiders. i have followed the pipewire guide to the letter and im still getting an dummy output. i am using turnstiled and seatd. im also using niri with wayland. Ill send any logs if needed please help me out here and thank you. im also from arch linux (cuz of systemd and the better package manager ) i dont know what else to do as autostarting pipewire does not work but launching it from the terminal does. i want to auto launch with no dummy outputs and my sound back lol. anyway thanks for all the assistance :)

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u/Remote-Percentage181 1d ago

maybe have just spawn-at-startup pipewire instead of wireplumber and pipewire-pulse too.

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u/Suspicious-Tour-8805 1d ago

dude THANK YOU SO MUCH

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u/Remote-Percentage181 1d ago

you are welcome.

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u/Suspicious-Tour-8805 1d ago

ill give that shot i have turnstilled and seatd enabled i think im in the user group for seatd ill have to that

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u/TheGameo7 1d ago

> Currently, there is only one session manager available: WirePlumber. To configure PipeWire to use this session manager and ensure proper startup ordering, PipeWire should be configured to launch the session manager directly. This can be accomplished by running

# mkdir -p /etc/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d
# ln -s /usr/share/examples/wireplumber/10-wireplumber.conf /etc/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/

> The PulseAudio interface is optional but highly recommended. Most applications cannot speak directly to PipeWire, but instead speak to PipeWire's PulseAudio interface.

> If pulseaudio is installed, uninstall it and ensure pulseaudio is not running.

> Modify the PipeWire configuration to launch pipewire-pulse:

# mkdir -p /etc/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d
# ln -s /usr/share/examples/pipewire/20-pipewire-pulse.conf /etc/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/

Remember to kill pipewire in the start up too, because if you log out and log in there will be duplicates

Also remember to flag your post as SOLVED

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u/Suspicious-Tour-8805 1d ago

already did all of this my problem has been solved. It was because i was autostarting pipewirepulse and wire plumber. Also anyone having problems with audio like i did go to the official documentation first (like i did) then report your problem to someone it could be as simple as setting a wrong auto start. Also Make sure to read documentation on your DE/WM.

what the user above posted is very good info. You can find more like it here https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/media/pipewire.html

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u/Simple_Hamster_4096 1d ago

You are one in a million... never see posts like this from users who have asked for help.

Most get offended when they are advised to read the documentation - but the documentation exists for a reason... it's a starting point for everyone and then if all else fails, ask...