I wanted to try PipeWire. I’m using a fairly standard configuration that I got from the Wiki:
security.rtkit.enable = true;
services.pipewire = {
enable = true;
alsa.enable = true;
alsa.support32Bit = true;
media-session = {
enable = true;
};
pulse.enable = true;
};
hardware.pulseaudio.enable = false;
I also tried it without rtkit. I first tried it with Linux Kernel 5.10.* and now with 5.15.*, but it seems that while PipeWire itself is working fine, no application can connect to its server.
$ pactl info
Server String: /run/user/1000/pulse/native
Library Protocol Version: 34
Server Protocol Version: 35
Is Local: yes
Client Index: 35
Tile Size: 65472
User Name: tifa
Host Name: nixos
Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 0.3.39)
Server Version: 15.0.0
Default Sample Specification: float32le 2ch 48000Hz
Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Default Sink: @DEFAULT_SINK@
Default Source: @DEFAULT_SOURCE@
Cookie: 624f:dee0
If I open, for example, Gnome Sound, I can’t select any output or input. No application can produce any sound.
With alsamixer I can select my sound card and fiddle with the settings just fine, but it doesn’t change the fact that my system has no sounds.
journalctl reveals 0 errors and pipewire and pipewire-pulse are starting and running just fine.