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rebel1804

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Registered: 2015-01-12

Posts: 3

Pulseaudio only listing dummy and ALSA only listing PulseAudio card

I messed up and I messed up bad. I was attempting to fix a popping/cracking noise on my microphone that was particularly annoying in skype. Along the way though, exposed after a reboot, Pulseaudio only lists dummy output and ALSA only lists PulseAudio as card. I am unsure of what broke my setup. I used this guide on the wiki
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sk … -bit_OS.29
as well as this one.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pu … _recording
It was moderately effective but there was still a popping crackling so I continued. I followed the directions in
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=155804
which were

rm /var/lib/alsa/asound.state
alsactl restore -P

I also did

 rm -r ~/.config/pulse

I may of messed up the ALSA configuration along the way but I don't recall how (my memory and bash_history are failing me).
I ran alsa-info and the output is available here
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=6e9dc … fc0241570b
Is there anyway to blow away my current (and broken) and regenerate a fresh one?
My motherboard is an Asus M5A99FX Pro R.2 with a realtek C892 soundcard. I use the analog output and microphone.
I use GNOME and have PulseAudio installed.