The Linux audio stack demystified (and more)

Re:The Linux audio stack demystified (and more) by bigstrat2003 on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @02:49AM (#41043255)

To be honest, I wouldn't say it requires arcane knowledge these days. When setting up both Arch and Gentoo, I did a bit of research, determined that Pipewire was probably the best for me (because it seems to be largely a superset of the other options), and installed it following the wiki instructions. That's it. I haven't had to configure things in any sort of detail, it just worked smoothly the first time without any config.

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Re:The Linux audio stack demystified (and more) by erremerre on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @03:21AM (#41043479)

Let me guess, you don't have a Realtek controller for audio.

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Re:The Linux audio stack demystified (and more) by vladvasiliu on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @03:31AM (#41043551)

I do have one, whatever HP figured was good enough for their "high-end" elitebooks. Worked perfectly on Arch without any fiddling. Even the mute leds on the keyboard work as expected.

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Re:The Linux audio stack demystified (and more) by bigstrat2003 on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @04:19AM (#41043817)

I believe I do, though I'm not certain. I have whatever is built into my Asus motherboard, which seems like it is ultimately a Realtek chip. Not sure though.

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Re:The Linux audio stack demystified (and more) by freedomben on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @08:02AM (#41045083)

Realtek audio has gotten to a pretty good place on Linux. I've had several over the past few years, and they just work for the most part. Fedora, especially has been a wonderful out of the box experience for audio.

Bluetooth on the other hand...

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Re:The Linux audio stack demystified (and more) by erremerre on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @08:27AM (#41045253)

I must be the only unlucky one because my linux approved motherboard Intel DQ77MK with a Realtek ALC892 8-channel for audio kept switching between front and back panel (although nothing was plugged in on front) on Fedora 39 :( . It does work fine on windows.

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Re:The Linux audio stack demystified (and more) by freedomben on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @10:41AM (#41046478)

Actually now that you mention it, I did have a similar problem on one particular motherboard. I don't attribute it to linux though so hadn't thought of it. It turned out to be a hardware issue (with the motherboard) though. The card kept resetting due to too low of input power. I had hoped a BIOS update would fix it, but it didn't. I have had a couple of built-in audio modules die and stop being seen by the kernel on old laptops.

Honestly I would just buy a USB interface. I got a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 and have been very happy with it.

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Re:The Linux audio stack demystified (and more) by erremerre on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @05:15AM (#41055088)

The only thing I can say is that it does not happen in windows 10.

Do you have any more information on how can it be diagnosed?

The motherboard it does have the latest bios update.

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Re:The Linux audio stack demystified (and more) by trelane on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @10:23AM (#41046290)

Did you try OSX on the same hardware?

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Re:The Linux audio stack demystified (and more) by erremerre on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @05:16AM (#41055099)

Unfortunately no, I don't think I have the knowledge to try a hackintosh? Also not very sure if the system would be compatible with it. It is something to try eventually though.

what do you think it will happen?

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