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Solace7

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Registered: 2016-11-06

Posts: 6

Switching to PipeWire, no Sound

Haven't had much luck sifting through old forums for answers so opening my new topic.
Following the wiki I installed pipewire, pipewire-alsa pipewire-pulse pipewire-jack and lib32-pipewire. After rebooting my system however, there is no sound. pactl info returns

Failure: Connection refused

Link to gist of strace
I notice in the log that pulseaudio libraries are trying to be loaded that don't exist anymore. If this is the problem I'm not sure of solutions. (If pipewire is meant to symlink replace those files, or if the files shouldnt be loaded regardless)

pipewire, pipewire-pulse and pipewire-media-session all appear to be running fine

pipewire.service - Multimedia Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2021-04-22 10:59:14 PDT; 1h 4min ago
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire.socket
   Main PID: 1110 (pipewire)
      Tasks: 2 (limit: 19074)
     Memory: 5.1M
        CPU: 22ms
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pipewire.service
             └─1110 /usr/bin/pipewire

Apr 22 10:59:14 GREYOMEN systemd[1103]: Started Multimedia Service.

pipewire-pulse.service - PipeWire PulseAudio
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire-pulse.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2021-04-22 11:10:11 PDT; 53min ago
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire-pulse.socket
   Main PID: 5949 (pipewire-pulse)
      Tasks: 2 (limit: 19074)
     Memory: 1.1M
        CPU: 4ms
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pipewire-pulse.service
             └─5949 /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse

Apr 22 11:10:11 GREYOMEN systemd[1103]: Started PipeWire PulseAudio.

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