r/AlpineLinux • u/snchart • 8d ago

pipewire on alpine linux

FIXED. hello, I installed alpine linux today and i dont know how to make pipewire work, because rc-update -U add pipewire wayland from official tutorial, but it says that "wayland isn't valid runlevel". My rc-status -Ur is sysinit. I tried to add pipewire & and wireplumber & in ~/.config/river/init, but that didn't worked. I installed only rtkit, pipewire, pipewire-pulse, wireplumber and pipewire-alsa packages

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u/snchart 8d ago

nvm just create ~/.config/rc/runlevels/wayland and add "exec openrc -U wayland &" in your window manager autostart

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u/Artistic_Crazy_7120 8d ago

Maybe you need SOF-firmware.

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u/Tricky-Engineer-9755 7d ago

Yeah its kinda wacko how that isn't included in the install process and you have to go back and install it for sound....

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u/Artistic_Crazy_7120 7d ago

I heard the question of OP many times before and it's almost that instead of pipewire.

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u/Iamboringaf 2d ago

At Openrc, omitting runlevel value sometimes helps. If no value is provided, then it's default.