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brapcity

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Registered: 2023-03-12

Posts: 7

[Fixed] Audio not working

Hi, I was trying to get my audio to work on my bluetooth headphones and somehow during the process I managed to kill audio entirely on my system
I'm using KDE
I don't really know what relevant outputs I can add here to help but this is what I found

[moo@moo ~]$ fuser -v /dev/snd/*
                     USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0:  moo         918 F.... pulseaudio
                     moo        1035 F.... wireplumber
/dev/snd/controlC1:  moo         918 F.... pulseaudio
                     moo        1035 F.... wireplumber
/dev/snd/controlC2:  moo         918 F.... pulseaudio
                     moo        1035 F.... wireplumber
/dev/snd/controlC3:  moo         918 F.... pulseaudio
                     moo        1034 F.... pipewire
                     moo        1035 F.... wireplumber
/dev/snd/seq:        moo        1034 F.... pipewire

Last edited by brapcity (2024-10-03 02:22:25)

brapcity

Member

Registered: 2023-03-12

Posts: 7

Re: [Fixed] Audio not working

I managed to fix it by installing the following packages:

pacman -S pipewire pipewire-pulse pipewire-media-session pavucontrol

and then editing my .xinitrc to contain the following lines

/usr/bin/pipewire &
/usr/bin/pipewire-pulse &
/usr/bin/pipewire-media-session &