Re: Now Fixed: Archlinux Speakup problems after alsa package upgrade

[Alexander Epaneshnikov <aarnaarn2@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 05:40:21PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Yes, I seem to have a full compliment of pw on the older machine, and
> the same set of pw on the newer machine.

strange. I think espeakup will not work if pw is inuse.

> Interestingly, the files in /etc/alsa/conf.d/ are different. The new
> machine shows only two files there:
>
> 50-pipewire.conf
> 99-pipewire-default.conf
>
> On the older machine, earlier today, I tried renumber my alsa devices
> via /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf. I ended up putting things back the way
> they were, because the builtin Intel HDA device doesn't work as card 0
> for some reason--very strange, but I adjusted some time ago to start
> numbering my three devices as 1, 2 and 3.  So, after I put things back,
> a see much more pw in that directory:
>
> 10-samplerate.conf
> 10-speexrate.conf
> 50-arcam-av-ctl.conf
> 50-jack.conf
> 50-oss.conf
> 50-pipewire.conf
> 50-pulseaudio.conf
> 60-speex.conf
> 60-upmix.conf
> 60-vdownmix.conf
> 98-usb-stream.conf
> 99-pipewire-default.conf
>
>
> This suggests to me that the conversion to pw is still a work in
> progress!
>
> I've no idea why the above is the situation, though, or what packages
> handle what aspect.

you can use pacman -Qo /path/to/file to check which package owns this file.

> Best,
>
> Janina

--
Sincerely, Alexander