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Just wondering if there are any #linux users around with good experience with #pulseaudio .
Having an issue with some headset mics where the audio keeps dropping out from optimal 50-60% down to 25-30% and therefore having to re-adjust the mic volume in pulse audio volume control all the time. However I set it, it keeps dropping down.
𝖉𝖔𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖊𝖗 @leftylabourtech I've been using pipewire for years now.
@loathsome_dongeater Was thinking of that. But, I'd have 14 machines to migrate in a hurry....like tomorrow morning.
@leftylabourtech I'll follow you to see how it goes
@loathsome_dongeater Pipewire "did" fix a problem a while back I was having on an ancient Toshiba laptop On that machine the audio out would mute at reboot and Pipewire fixed that.
is this a wired or wireless headset?
if wired, a quick and dirty fix would be to run something that re-applies your preferred setting repeatedly (every second?)
like
watch "pactl set-source-volume alsa_input.pci-device-number.analog-stereo 0.6"
edit:typos
@maybenot These are wired headsets running into desktop machines (old Core 2 Duos running Debian 12). So using the audio in and audio out ports as opposed to USB.
I'll try a couple of things in the morning and this will be one of them. Thanks.
I may just swap out pulse audio for pipewire and see if that does the strick. Pipewire was the "magic fix" for one other problem I had a couple of months ago on something else audio related.
@maybenot I noticed this issue a few years back on a similar project...it just seems to be a little worse than it was.
if it's the builtin soundcard, all the usual suspects are out, it must be getting reset by something on the software side,
hardware being old, it's unlikely some nasty change was pushed to drivers recently, even more so with debian
and as you say, disabling/replacing pulse will probably be easier than finding out what is resetting it.
havn't tried pipewire yet, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ there.
hopefully one of them tricks will work
@maybenot OK gang, installing the "pipewire-audio" package & dependencies (which removes pulse audio) seems to have fixed the problem on all of the machines except one stubborn old Lenovo Thinkcentre where it knocked out the headphones!
Good enough for now. I'll figure out what the old Thinkcentre is doing later when we're not so crowded/busy.
A fix for 13/14 machines is not bad.
Thanks all!