alsa-lib
The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) - library (by alsa-project)
apulse
PulseAudio emulation for ALSA (by i-rinat)
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8.4 | 0.0 | |
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C | C | |
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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alsa-lib
Posts with mentions or reviews of alsa-lib.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-19.
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JBL Quantum 810 | WiFi Dongle does not behave!
Since I'm a web dev and not a kernel dev, I've written an issue about this in alsa-lib (here). However, I'm just not getting anything there, so I thought I might as well try on here.
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What to do when a package doesn't work with your hardware?
On my linux journey, I learn as things break. Today I upgraded to find that alsa-lib 1.2.7.2-1 , and its adjacent packages, stopped the functioning and registering of my audio interface (motu m2). Simple fix is to downgrade all of the associated packages and add them to PkgIgnore. Although I would like to learn what is the best practice when you notice that your common hardware is incompatible with common software. Is it my duty to make a comment under issues in https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib ? Or is there more digging I can do to learn whether it truly is the software or something else?
- AlSA not appearing in my usr/share/ directory
- Is there a way to set volume directly instead of using alsa-utils?
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openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2021/23
For me, the HDMI audio problem turned out to be an issue with Alsa. This bug specifically: https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib/issues/142
- Alsa sound not working
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Usb Headphones How To Fix No Sound Crackling Sound
Unfortunately no, but i think it's because of an alsa driver. I've reported the bug on github. The issue is apparently related to this one : https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib/issues/90. The only thing I can do is waiting until it's fixed, since i don't have the skills to help.
apulse
Posts with mentions or reviews of apulse.
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Would ALSA + alsamixer + apulse Suite Me/My Use Case?
Most of my audio comes from Firefox, Steam, and other random miscellaneous programs. I'm wondering if I can rely on apulse for this? If I need to do some configuration that's more than okay, but if it's super buggy or hardly works then it's not worth the trouble. If anyone has experience with apulse I would love to hear more about it.
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Switching the Linux graphics stack from GLX to EGL
I read this and my first thought is "oh shit, is Firefox about to stop working?"
some of us like our software to be stable and reliable, and not switch to the newest bullshit just because they can. I'm still bitter about being forced to find a workaround for FF requiring pulseaudio. Am I now gonna need to find a workaround for this? I run FF 94 right now, and will upgrade with trepidation...
(shoutout to https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse. THANKS.)
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Pipewire as an ALSA replacement in Fedora
Rather than re-compile firefox, maybe take a look at https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse which provide a shim to eliminate pulse.
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Is firefox supposed to work with pulseaudio only?
Firefox does use PulseAudio for output. I don't run an ALSA-only setup, but I believe you can use apulse to emulate PA over ALSA for specific applications like so: apulse firefox
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Keeping old linux games running?
When launching the binary set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the oldlibs directory, e.g. LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/badsector/oldlibs. Some very old games may also need older versions of C++ library, you can find those in some older distros' "compat" packages, e.g. this one from SuSE 9.1 will contain most files you'll need - do not install the package, just extract the needed files. A few games may need convincing to use these files, use LD_PRELOAD for that. In addition some games may use OSS instead of ALSA so you'll need a wrapper. An OSS-to-PulseAudio wrapper is often available and you can preload it either with padsp (which will only work with the native version though, so no 32bit apps in 64bit linux) or doing it manually with LD_PRELOAD (which is basically what padsp does). There should be OSS support module for plain ALSA too if you do not have/want PulseAudio (or you can extract the relevant libraries from the padsp and use them with apulse).
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pulseaudio not starting
apulse?
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`Pulseaudio -k`, or a pro audio user's perspective on Linux's sound stack
I think there are a lot more than your two solutions, for example there is apulse to run pulseaudio applications on top of ALSA. Of course your bluetooth headset will probably not work well with that, you'd still need another daemon like pulseaudio or pipewire to get good results there.
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Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix
I don't think that's important. In practice you can also use the pulseaudio API and that will work everywhere because of this: https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse
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PulseAudio, upstream: FreeBSD support: meson build, import downstream patches, more improvements – merge request 277, merged
This has been a life saver for me on GNU/Linux https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse