Start wireplumber and pipewire

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After successful install of wireplumber and pipewire how do I start the services? I get:

root@ws-living:/home/j# systemctl enable pipewire
Failed to enable unit: Unit pipewire.service does not exist
root@ws-living:/home/j# systemctl enable pipewire.socket
Failed to enable unit: Unit pipewire.socket does not exist
root@ws-living:/home/j# systemctl enable wireplumber
Failed to enable unit: Unit wireplumber.service does not exist
root@ws-living:/home/j# systemctl enable wireplumber.socket
Failed to enable unit: Unit wireplumber.socket does not exist
root@ws-living:/home/j#
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even after a reboot there are no services for wireplumber and pipewire. Are there no systemd services for them?

3

I’ve never used the KDE spin but it seems strange to me that pipewire isn’t already correctly configured for you out of the box.

Last time I did anything with this stuff manually was when I still used void linux; their docs page seems likely enough to be accurate for this, though:

The key insight here is that I don’t think there’s a service involved at all; it should be started by the DE or potentially even by whichever application asks for it first (on the dbus session bus) Maybe fedora does it differently but I think that if KDE isn’t starting it for you then you can just create an autostart entry.

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systemctl –user status …

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It was just after install and than, one update later it stopped working. It looks like the latest kernel and mod lock the amd radeon hdmi audio out which than becomes unavailble to alsa wireplumber, pipewire or all of the above (confusing as hell audio in linux)

As there are no usefull sources I just uninstalled and reinstalled the stuff. Nothing helps on these forums nobody has a clue. even deepseek gave up after about two hours of probing and setting

# 52-amd-hdmi-nodes.conf - Create nodes for each HDMI output

monitor.alsa.rules = [
  {
    matches = [
      {
        alsa.card = 1
        alsa.pcm = 3
      }
    ]
    actions = {
      update-props = {
        node.name = "alsa_output.amd_vega56.hdmi-0"
        node.description = "AMD Vega 56 HDMI 0"
        media.class = "Audio/Sink"
        audio.channels = 2
        audio.position = "FL,FR"
        priority.driver = 2000
        priority.session = 2000
      }
    }
  }
  # Add more nodes as needed for other PCMs (7,8,9,10,11)
]