Sound

The officially supported way to get sound on Chimera is through the PipeWire project. Plain ALSA is not supported. PulseAudio is also not supported (but PipeWire provides compatibility).

In longer term, other sound servers may become options, but PipeWire will remain a well supported default.

PipeWire

To install PipeWire:

# apk add pipewire

This will also automatically install WirePlumber, the default session manager.

The primary supported way to get the daemon running is through a user service. Simply enable WirePlumber as your user:

$ dinitctl enable wireplumber

Doing so also implicitly enables pipewire itself. Typically you will also want PulseAudio compatibility:

$ dinitctl enable pipewire-pulse

You can check whether it’s running:

$ dinitctl list
[[+]     ] boot
[{+}     ] system
[{+}     ] dbus (pid: 1040)
[{+}     ] pipewire-pulse (pid: 1046)
[{+}     ] pipewire (pid: 1044)
[{+}     ] wireplumber (pid: 1045)