I have audio issues

Issues & Assistance
1

I dont know what happened to disrupt previously working audio, but system doesnt play sounds.
Maybe I downloaded pulseaudio package I shouldnt have or something.

Here is some info:

❯ systemctl list-units | grep sound

  sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:1f.3-sound-card0-controlC0.device                                           loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/sound/card0/controlC0
  sound.target                                                                                               loaded active active    Sound Card

❯ pactl info
Server String: /run/user/1000/pulse/native
Library Protocol Version: 35
Server Protocol Version: 35
Is Local: yes
Client Index: 27
Tile Size: 65472
User Name: jakus
Host Name: SingularityBox96
Server Name: pulseaudio
Server Version: 17.0
Default Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Default Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo
Default Source: alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo
Cookie: 0dae:db88
2

Try checking which audio channel you are using. Kde sometimes picks the wrong output device which leads to one not having any sound when they should. If that is not the source of the problem than it may well be that the wrong audio handler is loaded.

3

How do I do that?

4

I have figured out that I have installed pulseaudio.
I needed to uninstall it so I used this command:
pacman -Rdd pulseaudio
Then I uninstalled all its dependencies:
sudo pacman -Rns pulseaudio-equalizer pulseaudio-jack pulseaudio-lirc pulseaudio-rtp pulseaudio-zeroconf
(I could just use Rnsdd command to uninstall it all with dependencies at once, didnt know that)
Then I installed pipewire again:
sudo pacman -Syu --needed pipewire-pulse pipewire-alsa pipewire-jack
And enabled it:
systemctl --user enable --now pipewire-pulse

Thanks to CachyOS Discord support members!

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