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zangoku

Member

Registered: 2019-06-04

Posts: 2

PipeWire No Audio VMWare and Runelite

I have migrated from pulseaudio to pipewire a few months ago. I have been having issues with vmware and runelite since. I have the following packages installed:

lib32-pipewire
lib32-pipewire-jack
pipewire
pipewire-alsa
pipewire-jack
pipewire-pulse
pipewire-media-session

VMware gives the following error message if I have an application already playing sound:

`Failed to set Alsa sound device parameter (snd_pcm_hw_params_set_buffer_size_near): Invalid argument.
The sound connection control operation failed.

If I have no application playing sound, I do not get the error message, but I also cannot hear sound from Linux VMs.

As for runelite it simply does not play sound.

I have tried re-initialising alsa and when runelite is running

sudo fuser -f /dev/snd/pcm* 

  outputs:

Cannot stat file /proc/6737/fd/4: Permission denied
Cannot stat file /proc/6737/fd/5: Permission denied
Cannot stat file /proc/6737/fd/1023: Permission denied

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 23,944

Re: PipeWire No Audio VMWare and Runelite

Assuming pipewire-alsa is properly set up, you need to configure the applications in question to play back to the "default" device rather than whatever device they are autodetecting and trying by default.

e.g. for vmware: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VMware … LSA_output set the fileName="default"

Last edited by V1del (2022-03-17 15:42:58)