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alwaysthesun

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Registered: 2022-12-18

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Discussion - Firefox audio playback

PC suspends in energy saving mode while playing audio in Firefox

This is a general problem on all Linux Distributions

Has somebody a workaround

Lone_Wolf

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Re: Discussion - Firefox audio playback

Is powersaving for audio disabled or enabled on you system ? , see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management#Audio

What tool are you using to manage power usage ?

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alwaysthesun

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Registered: 2022-12-18

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Re: Discussion - Firefox audio playback

Powersaving for audio is disabled

I think systemd manages my energy savings

I have cinnamon desktop installed

Last edited by alwaysthesun (2023-08-20 03:17:42)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: Discussion - Firefox audio playback

Post the contents of /etc/systemd/logind.conf and the output of ls -l /etc/systemd/logind.conf.d/

Also check Cinnamon-settings  > Power Management  to see if something stands out to you.

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alwaysthesun

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Re: Discussion - Firefox audio playback

/etc/systemd/logind.conf

#  terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
#  Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option)
#  any later version.
#
# Entries in this file show the compile time defaults. Local configuration
# should be created by either modifying this file, or by creating "drop-ins" in
# the logind.conf.d/ subdirectory. The latter is generally recommended.
# Defaults can be restored by simply deleting this file and all drop-ins.
#
# Use 'systemd-analyze cat-config systemd/logind.conf' to display the full config.
#
# See logind.conf(5) for details.

[Login]
#NAutoVTs=6
#ReserveVT=6
#KillUserProcesses=no
#KillOnlyUsers=
#KillExcludeUsers=root
#InhibitDelayMaxSec=5
#UserStopDelaySec=10
#HandlePowerKey=poweroff
#HandlePowerKeyLongPress=ignore
#HandleRebootKey=reboot
#HandleRebootKeyLongPress=poweroff
#HandleSuspendKey=suspend
#HandleSuspendKeyLongPress=hibernate
#HandleHibernateKey=hibernate
#HandleHibernateKeyLongPress=ignore
#HandleLidSwitch=suspend
#HandleLidSwitchExternalPower=suspend
#HandleLidSwitchDocked=ignore
#PowerKeyIgnoreInhibited=no
#SuspendKeyIgnoreInhibited=no
#HibernateKeyIgnoreInhibited=no
#LidSwitchIgnoreInhibited=yes
#RebootKeyIgnoreInhibited=no
#HoldoffTimeoutSec=30s
#IdleAction=ignore
#IdleActionSec=30min
#RuntimeDirectorySize=10%
#RuntimeDirectoryInodesMax=
#RemoveIPC=yes
#InhibitorsMax=8192
#SessionsMax=8192
#StopIdleSessionSec=infinity

Entering this command i get an error that this file or directory doesn't exist: ls -l /etc/systemd/logind.conf.d/

Last edited by alwaysthesun (2023-08-24 09:39:02)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: Discussion - Firefox audio playback

Please use [ code ] [ /code ] tags for porgram output , see https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode .

Entering this command i get an error that this file or directory doesn't exist: ls -l /etc/systemd/logind.conf.d/

That means you haven't made changes that required creating that folder.

#IdleAction=ignore
#IdleActionSec=30min

These are important, it means that systemd will do nothing when the system is idle. Whatever causes the suspend must be triggered by userspace tools .

The cinnamon power management  is the first place to look at.

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