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I had Arch setup with pipewire and sound was working except for the Mic. In my attempts to fix the Mic, I sort of broke the playback. As it stands, I can generate and hear sounds from the terminal (eg. hitting left arrow in terminal when at the start of a prompt produces a water drop sound and aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav successfully plays the sound) but other apps no longer function for playback (VLC, Chrome, Firefox, etc.).
I *think* the troubleshooting step that broke fully functioning playback was creating:
/etc/modprobe.d/snd-hda-intel.confand populating it with something like:
options snd-hda-intel probe_mask=1I have since removed that file but still apps can't seem to produce any sound. Pavucontrol seems to appear as it did before I broke things and seems to properly list the devices with the appropriate volume sliders set at 100%.
Can someone help point me in the right direction here so I don't make things any worse?
Last edited by nooobeee (2024-06-11 16:00:29)
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Turns out I was missing pipewire-pulse. While troubleshooting, I tried to switch to pulseaudio which removed pipewire-pulse. After removing pulseaudio-jack, I was able to reinstall pipewire-pulse which conflicted with a couple pulseaudio packages but telling pacman to replace those with pipewire-pulse fixed the apps being able to playback.
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As a side note, the mic started functioning after this as well. I guess I don't know what was broken with the original pipewire setup where playback worked but the mic didn't produce any level of audio but the failed transition to pulseaudio and subsequent reinstall of pipewire-pulse seemed to fix whatever wasn't working.
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