[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1013276: Alsa clients using the wrong plugin if pulseaudio is installed

[Sedat Dilek]

Hi,

I upgraded to pipewire/0.3.58-1 on my Debian/unstable AMD64 box.

This removed pipewire-pulse/0.3.57-1.

After this I was not able to listen to audio when doing
video-streaming in Firefox.

Please, point Debian/unstable folks to remove these files (as stated
in the Ubuntu BR):

root# rm -v /etc/alsa/conf.d/99-pulse.conf /etc/alsa/conf.d/50-pulseaudio.conf

This SOLVED the issue (unsure if 50-pulseaudio.conf needs to be
removed as well).

Some inspecting...

[ PACTL ]

user$ LANG=C pactl info
Server String: /run/user/1000/pulse/native
Library Protocol Version: 35
Server Protocol Version: 35
Is Local: yes
Client Index: 6
Tile Size: 65472
User Name: dileks
Host Name: iniza
Server Name: pulseaudio
Server Version: 15.0
Default Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Default Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
Default Source: alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
Cookie: 10fd:1cb5

user$ LANG=C wpctl status
PipeWire 'pipewire-0' [0.3.58, dileks at iniza, cookie:479679219]
└─ Clients:
       31. WirePlumber                         [0.3.58, dileks at iniza, pid:1791]
       32. WirePlumber [export]                [0.3.58, dileks at iniza, pid:1791]
       43. xdg-desktop-portal                  [0.3.58, dileks at iniza, pid:2165]
       44. wpctl                               [0.3.58, dileks at iniza, pid:6084]

Audio
├─ Devices:
│      40. Internes Audio                      [alsa]
│
├─ Sinks:
│
├─ Sink endpoints:
│
├─ Sources:
│
├─ Source endpoints:
│
└─ Streams:

Video
├─ Devices:
│      38. WebCam SC-13HDL11431N               [v4l2]
│      39. WebCam SC-13HDL11431N               [v4l2]
│
├─ Sinks:
│
├─ Sink endpoints:
│
├─ Sources:
│  *   41. WebCam SC-13HDL11431N (V4L2)
│
├─ Source endpoints:
│
└─ Streams:

Settings
└─ Default Configured Node Names:

user$ LANG=C wpctl inspect 40
id 40, type PipeWire:Interface:Device
   alsa.card = "0"
   alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel PCH"
   alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel"
   alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel PCH at 0xf0700000 irq 34"
   api.acp.auto-port = "false"
   api.acp.auto-profile = "false"
   api.alsa.card = "0"
   api.alsa.card.longname = "HDA Intel PCH at 0xf0700000 irq 34"
   api.alsa.card.name = "HDA Intel PCH"
   api.alsa.path = "hw:0"
   api.alsa.use-acp = "true"
 * client.id = "32"
 * device.api = "alsa"
   device.bus = "pci"
   device.bus-path = "pci-0000:00:1b.0"
 * device.description = "Internes Audio"
   device.enum.api = "udev"
   device.form-factor = "internal"
   device.icon-name = "audio-card-analog-pci"
 * device.name = "alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1b.0"
 * device.nick = "HDA Intel PCH"
   device.plugged.usec = "36336190"
   device.product.id = "0x1c20"
   device.product.name = "6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High
Definition Audio Controller"
   device.string = "0"
   device.subsystem = "sound"
   device.sysfs.path = "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0"
   device.vendor.id = "0x8086"
   device.vendor.name = "Intel Corporation"
 * factory.id = "14"
 * media.class = "Audio/Device"
   object.path = "alsa:pcm:0"
 * object.serial = "40"

[ ALSA ]

root# LC_ALL=C aplay --list-devices
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC269VC Analog [ALC269VC Analog]
 Subdevices: 0/1
 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
 Subdevices: 1/1
 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

root# aplay --list-pcms | egrep -A1 'default:'
default:CARD=PCH
   HDA Intel PCH, ALC269VC Analog
--
sysdefault:CARD=PCH
   HDA Intel PCH, ALC269VC Analog

root# aplay --list-pcms | egrep -A1 'plughw:'
plughw:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
   HDA Intel PCH, ALC269VC Analog
--
plughw:CARD=PCH,DEV=3
   HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 0

Thanks.

Regards,
-Sedat-

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pipewire/+bug/1975823
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1013276