did an update friday and lost audio. FIXED

[Moriah]

I looked around in the Portage & Programming posts, expecting to find something on this, but did not see anything, so I am posting.

I know there was a NEWS item about some changes to pipewire and desktops, but I do not use any desktop per say, I just use a simple ctwm, which is a fancied up version of twm, so I thought it did not apply to me. But after I did the update on my travelling laptop, and rebooted it, I no longer have working audio. And what on earth is pipewire anyway; I've never heard of it before that NEWS item.

So I have no audio, which is an inconvenience, but not crippling for me. How do I get it back? I assume I need to change some USE flags somewhere and re-emerge some stuff, but I know not what.

Thanks for any help.

[sam_]

Please share emerge --info.

Receiving the news item should mean you're on a desktop profile, in which case it can't be ignored.

Following the steps at the end to have the previous status quo should work, depending on whatever you were using before:

In order to keep a previously configured PulseAudio only system (i.e. keep
using media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon), set
USE="-pipewire -screencast" in /etc/portage/make.conf
and
media-video/pipewire -sound-server in /etc/portage/package.use

For an ALSA only system, set
USE="-pipewire -pulseaudio -screencast" in /etc/portage/make.conf

[Moriah]

Since I use alsa in a simple way, I added the flags:

For an ALSA only system, set
USE="-pipewire -pulseaudio -screencast" in /etc/portage/make.conf

and did an emerge @world. It worked. I now have audio again. Thanks! [/quote]