• raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Been using debian for more than a decade and “it just works” has become truer every year. It’s a good distro, if you have no principle objections against systemd (which I do, but am too lazy to do anything about).

    The one thing I am not happy about: Audio drivers on a Desktop computer

    • works out of the box, but then messes up when selecting input devices from:
    • line in
    • headphones in
    • USB camera microphone
    • Audio in “sinks” - I believe those are channels allowing for active noise cancelling / preventing Audio feedback loops I had a whole lot of trouble with pulseaudio selecting the correct source when trying to use my mic in the browser.

    On a Laptop, I’ve never experienced such issues, as all devices are integrated (apart from the headphones jack, I guess).

    Just when I got familiar enough with pulseaudio, they replaced it with “pipewire”, which fucked up output devices:

    • works on boot
    • when I plug in headphones: it messes up the Audio output to HDMI and I have to manually re-select (on desktop environment) the headphones
    • when I then touch the volume control (GUI), the output goes silent again and I have to select the “Port” headphones for the “Built-in Audio Analog Stereo” under “Output Devices”

    drives me crazy since the last update - but it’s only an issue when using headphones, so for now I am living with it.

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      4 months ago

      Im on openSuse Leap 15.5 and I moved to Pipewire back when I had 15.3 I believe. I had that issue where all output devices/input devices got smashed together. I stuck with it for couple of months and I believe the later versions fixed that. Now I am painfree and never bother with audio ever again. I used to have frequent pulseaudio crashes which is why I switched over to pipewire.

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      4 months ago

      I use an external usb dac/amp to handle all my audio switching and has been working flawlessly on debian. Could that be an option for you?

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        4 months ago

        That seems like an ugly workaround - using external hardware to pretend that internally there’s only 1 device. Not my preferred method, to be honest.

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          4 months ago

          I mainly use the external hardware as a workaround for unwanted noise from the pc. It bothers me to no end to hear the mouse cursor scream into my headphone/speakers.