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Pop OS doesn't even properly support the front audio ports on my five year old motherboard. Unplugging my headphones requires restarting pipewire...
by winrid 4y ago
Pop OS doesn't even properly support the front audio ports on my five year old motherboard. Unplugging my headphones requires restarting pipewire...
- fsflover 4y agoThey didn't promise to support every hardware in the world. You don't even say which one you have.
- wing-_-nuts 4y agopop os is xorg by default, so wouldn't that be pulse audio you're dealing with?
- boomboomsubban 4y agoxorg can use PipeWire, PulseAudio, JACK, and/or ALSA.
- wing-_-nuts 4y agoI just looked up what I was using, and it's apparently 'pulseaudio on pipewire'. You'll forgive the confusion. Still, I've not seen anything like what OP is describing. I'm sure he could hook to some sort of 'plug-in' event and auto restart it, though that does sound irritating.
- myself248 4y agoAnyone got an updated version of this graphic? https://i.stack.imgur.com/YjUTQ.png https://i.stack.imgur.com/YjUTQ.png It's surely worse in the 16 years since.
- smoldesu 4y agoThe updated version would look fairly similar, except most things would be routed to feed into either PulseAudio, ALSA or Jack. After that, it would be one big Dumb Funnel into PipeWire and out to your hardware. Also a lot of that stuff is arguably obsolete. 90% of Linux apps will just dump audio to PulseAudio, which is neatly managed through PipeWire. A few professional apps use JACK2, which is also PW managed. Everything else will default to an ALSA sink wired through, you guessed it, PipeWire. It's like a boring and remarkably stable version of the Wayland situation.
- winrid 4y agoThere is no plug-in event, that's the problem. I can see the unplug event from the kernel logs, but it never gets an event when plugging it back in.
- winrid 4y agoNah, it uses a plugin that allows apps to interface with pipewire as if it was pulseaudio.
- nluken 4y agoAudio has always been a tough spot for Linux in my experience. That said, I also have problems with MacOS too so my problem might lie somewhere between my chair and keyboard.
- winrid 4y agoI've never had audio problems on OSX. External monitors though, yeah...
- yoyohello13 4y agoThe problem is the manufacturer of your motherboard doesn't provide and/or update their drivers for Linux. I know to the end user this doesn't really make a difference, but everyone seems to blame Linux when there really isn't anything Linux devs can do about this kind of thing.
- winrid 4y agoI can blame the distro. It worked on KDE Neon which also uses pipewire, by setting a "lock configuration" option in the audio settings. Gnome and the pulse config UI don't have such an option.