Michael wrote:
On Sunday, 3 March 2024 19:31:30 GMT Dale wrote:


Since my last post, I did my weekly updates.  During that, I log out,
switch to boot runlevel, restart anything that checkrestart says needs
it, then back to default runlevel and log back in.  With the config file
change, my monitors came up just like they should.  I didn't have to
adjust anything. 

I guess it goes to show, one thing fixes one person's system while yet
another fixes someone else's system.  Go figure.  ROFL 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

You don't need to replace openrc with systemd to use Wayland.  These days I 
run all my systems' desktops on Wayland and openrc.  OpenRC will not interfere 
with or try to replace my network settings, my cron jobs, my chronyd, syslog, 
or whatever.

Pipewire is the new sound server for KDE.  Take a look here in case yours 
needs some tweaking:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PipeWire

I run on my main desktop with USE="-pulseaudio", but if you have any 
applications which need pulseaudio you'll need to enable it, if you haven't 
done this already.

When pipewire first showed up, I was kinda hesitant about it.  Here's something new that is going to annoy me for a while until the bugs gets worked out and I figure out how to use it.  Then I got Kmix cut off.  I started using pipewire and it was like, cool.  It actually works pretty well. 

The other day it did some strange things tho.  I would set the volume but every time it went to the next video in my play list, it would reset the volume to 0 or very close to it.  It was annoying since I kept having to turn it back up.  I ended up closing everything that would play sound and setting the volume levels where I wanted it.  I then restarted smplayer and such.  It has worked ever since.  I guess it got confused between some setting somewhere and what I wanted.  Doing it with all the apps gone seems to have fixed it.  So far, that's the only time it gave me any trouble and it could have been something I clicked by accident or something.  I don't know that it was pipewire's fault.  Could be, could have been me. 

Since I use smplayer to watch TV, doing that reset while everything was closed, it also fixed the volume setting on mpv when I'm playing some temporary video to test and make sure a file is good, and in English.  It actually fixed two problems. 

Oh, I also figured out how to set the audio in smplayer as well.  I used to have it set to a user setting in preferences to get sound.  Now it's using a regular device like it should. 

Overall, I kinda like pipewire.  It does manage the sound better than Kmix did.  It not only manages devices but also manages apps as well.  Anyone who hasn't switched should give it a try.  Just look for both tabs.  One is for devices and one is for apps.  Have to check them both and adjust as needed. 

Dale

:-)  :-)