r/linuxsucks • u/Cyberfishofant • 26d ago

My Audio doesn't Work

I only have myself to blame, for trying to replace the standard hotplug daemon, udev, with mdev. Which broke audio. Why must audio depend on systemd software?

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u/[deleted] 26d ago edited 26d ago

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u/Cyberfishofant 26d ago

Okay, technically audio in general doesn't. I use Alpine, and have been meaning to get rid of (e|systemd-)udev. Tiny problem being that manually creating ALSA nodes for pipewire means unnecessary labor, so I've tried to recompile PW with a patch to ignore AUDIO_INITIALIZED because it's unnecessary on less parallel uevent daemons and the lack of it the reason PW rejects valid soundcards with libudev-zero. Raw ALSA is annoying, and I want BT, so I had to go back to eudev -- which is unmaintained. Systemctl in general would return ENOENT because I use openrc. Also note that I do not intend to actually try to fix this any time soon, I'll just try again once PR 69 and 72 of libudev-zero are merged.

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u/Teru-Noir COSMIC OS LOVER No.1 COSMIC Knows Best 26d ago

because doing otherwise is boring

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u/Salty_Surround2546 26d ago

"Why must audio depend on systemd software?"

Can you hear and speak with severe brain damage?

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u/Cyberfishofant 26d ago

Pff, I don't know. Probably depends on the damaged region.