Install Pipewire on Linux Fedora
Installing Pipewire on Linux Fedora.
The sound was much better installing Pipewire. Before Pipewire I always thought the sound was shallow and flat.
I upgraded to Fedora 34 but it seemed like Pipewire wasn’t working. I checked with this:
$ pactl info
With output:
Server Name: PulseAudio
The Pipewire documentation says that it needs to show:
Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 0.3.X)
I checked that Pipewire was installed. This produced an output:
$ pipewire --version
I checked this but it showed it was already installed:
$ sudo dnf install pipewire
I was missing this package:
$ sudo dnf install --allowerasing pipewire-pulseaudio
Start the service:
$ systemctl --user start pipewire-pulse.service pipewire-pulse.socket
Output:
Server String: /run/user/1000/pulse/native
Library Protocol Version: 34
Server Protocol Version: 35
Is Local: yes
Client Index: 127
Tile Size: 65472
User Name: tom
Host Name: dev
Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 0.3.26)
Server Version: 14.0.0
Default Sample Specification: float32le 2ch 48000Hz
Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Issues
I am having an issue with the volume bar. I can move the bar to the left, but it will go mute at this point, and not decrease the volume. Not sure if this is a Pipewire issue.
Sources: