Can't select sound card with Pipewire/ALSA [SOLVED]

10 March 2024, 23:35:04

I've just switched from Arch to Artix and I'm having some problems with audio.

I initially installed alsa-utils, pipewire, pipewire-alsa, pipewire-pulse, pipewire-jack and wireplumber.
Everything seemed to work until I played a youtube video and it stopped halfway through (this issue had just started happening on Arch before I switched) and I could not play any media with sound on my system. On Arch, I figured out that rebooting solved the issue for a while but after rebooting on Artix I found that I could no longer see my devices in pavucontrol (only showing dummy output) and when I select the correct sound device in alsamixer it does not save me preference when closing and reopening it.

I tried installing alsa-utils-runit and enabling the service but that didn't work. Also set /etc/asound.conf to

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defaults.pcm.card 0
defaults.ctl.card 0

with no luck.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT: I figured out that the issue was caused by Wireplumber not getting autostarted properly.

Re: Can't select sound card with Pipewire/ALSA

Reply #1 – 10 March 2024, 23:41:29

lspci | grep -i audio returns

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00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)

and pgrep -a pipewire returns

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1016 /usr/bin/pipewire
1017 /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse

if that helps.