Pipewire instead of pulseaudio

[Cath O'Deray]

Not fought it in 14.1 and I was late to the game coming to 14 and don't think I've fought against pulseaudio in that short timeframe. I think there were at least a couple times on 13 (if not many) but definitely times on previous versions;

I'd say many, prior to 14.1.

14.1 was a game changer.

Solved - forcing off the computer – endlessly waiting for sound application to exit at sleep/suspend time

It's frequently necessary to force off a computer (HP EliteBook 8570p, sometimes docked) when an attempt to suspend fails, with these messages from kernel: pcm3: unregister: mixer busy pcm3: Waiting for sound application to exit! I subscribe to this bug: {link removed} – however the...

forums.freebsd.org

Not entering sleep state due to audio

On an Intel x86 based FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE-p4 machine, putting it to sleep (using zzz) while FireFox has a tab streaming music makes the system not going to sleep and instead printing these messages over and over (indefinitely): pcm7: unregister: mixer busy pcm7: Waiting for sound application...

forums.freebsd.org