I lightly broke my audio

Issues & Assistance
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Hi.

I seened to have messed up a few things here…úps

I tried to get jack working, to use my USB Soundcard with my DAW (reaper).
But when I started jack all sounds from other applications, also system were gone. I tried to get a jack sink running, but that didn’t work out.
At some point everything got so bugged, that chachyos didn’t boot anymore.
Thanks for the snapshots I could revert some things I messed up.

But now I have this weird situation, that the sound only works, if I manually (in the system settings, I think it’s pavucontrol) disable my soundcard and enable it again.
But I have to do that every time another application wants to play some audio.

Also, the ProAudio option vanished from the drop down menu.
Also, if the Soundcard is inactive/off, the correct name is shown. When I activate it’s just named playback/recording devices.

So, my question right now is: Can I maybe just reset everything (or preferably just the audio part) to it’s fresh-installation state?

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I would try deleting/renaming all of the .config/pulse, .config/wireplumber, .config/jack etc. folders.

Also checkout

3

Found out, that my device’s name dissapearing is normal if it’s the only device active.
When other devices are active it’s also named correctly. So that’s fine.

But I only found a config folder for pulse. restarted pulse.
But still the same weird behaviour.

4

Trying to play a test sound when it’s in this weird state gives me an error:

Error trying to play a test sound.

The system said: “Invalid state”

So I probably broke some update/auto-detect functionality…

5

removing some pulse folders, but not only those in .config, but also in .local/share
That did the trick.