Hope Ubuntu will provide options in the future to totally eradicate Pipewire from a system to go back to just ALSA (with PA and Jack), even those have their drawbacks.
Kind of hesitated to write this down, as it seems non-positive comments on PW are not tolerated.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire ... ssues/4380
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire ... ssues/4299
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxaudio/com ... focusrite/
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire ... ssues/2995
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=294949
I tried PW but also couldn't get it to work as well as I would have hoped and reverted back to jack + pulseaudio. Now I can enjoy hassle free low-latency operation without having to spend every night trying to resolve esoteric sound problems.
You only need to de-activate Pipewire (you don't need to eradicate or uninstall it) and switch the audio config to jack + pulse.
You don't need Ubuntu tools for this either. What those tools actually do and how they work may be another can of worms not worth wasting time on.
I think it's also possible now to run Pipewire as a jack client (instead of using pulseaudio) but I haven't looked into this. For my current circumstances I don't think there'd be much to gain by substituting pulseaudio with pipewire for consumer audio.
Statistics: Posted by asbak — Thu Nov 14, 2024 10:38 pm