I installed Mint on an old laptop and had sound issues with external speakers. Spent 30 mins trouble shooting until I realized there was something with the port that if you fully pushed in the aux cable, it went in too much and the contacts don’t fully meet. There was a sweet spot where the cord is plugged in correctly but not pushed in too much.
I want to like pipewire but configuration is a hell scape of configuration files that bare no resemblance to any I’ve dealt with before, and doesn’t recognise my audio interface probably so I have to just fully stop all pw services and use jack for Ardour.
Yeah, I didn’t know Mint uses it and spent an hour trying to understand how to configure alsa and why my configuration looks correct but doesn’t do what I want (swap front channels)
Sadly, I have sound issues since the switch to pipewire is complete. There is less stuttering, yes, but sometimes I experience complete silence. Only if I change the volume a bit, it is back again.
I suspect random switches to the dummy output but I could not find the source of the problem, yet.
TBF I haven’t had a sound issue after Linux mint switched to pipewire.
I haven’t had a sound issue since I unplugged the speakers
I installed Mint on an old laptop and had sound issues with external speakers. Spent 30 mins trouble shooting until I realized there was something with the port that if you fully pushed in the aux cable, it went in too much and the contacts don’t fully meet. There was a sweet spot where the cord is plugged in correctly but not pushed in too much.
I did but that was mostly my own doing.
Linux, in an nutshell.
A lot of Linux issues are actually just messing around then finding out
Copium.
I want to like pipewire but configuration is a hell scape of configuration files that bare no resemblance to any I’ve dealt with before, and doesn’t recognise my audio interface probably so I have to just fully stop all pw services and use jack for Ardour.
You have to configure it???
Not usually, but the second you do it’s complete hell
Yeah, I didn’t know Mint uses it and spent an hour trying to understand how to configure alsa and why my configuration looks correct but doesn’t do what I want (swap front channels)
For me it’s like:
Sadly, I have sound issues since the switch to pipewire is complete. There is less stuttering, yes, but sometimes I experience complete silence. Only if I change the volume a bit, it is back again.
I suspect random switches to the dummy output but I could not find the source of the problem, yet.