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Date:      Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:13:11 +0300
From:      Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org>
To:        Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>,  "freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>,  "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Tragic State of FreeBSD Audio/Sound
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On Tue, Jul 21, 2026 at 12:57 PM Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> wrote:
>
> Only major outstanding work is pipewire/pipewire-pulse don't know how to
> elevate their priority on FreeBSD and they really should be RT.

What's needed for that?

> Disable the stock PulseAudio autostart.

Why, what's wrong with it?

>    if [ -z "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" ]; then
>        export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/var/run/user/$(id -u)"
>        mkdir -p "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"
>        chmod 700 "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"
>    fi

This is done by pam_xdg, you shouldn't do that yourself.


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