Two sound servers

General system Gaming, sound and video
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Hi. I encountered my first problem with yt videos, but somehow managed to find a solution. It occured that, perhaps when I was solving some bluetooth problem, I installed Pipeware or PulseAudio server (as a second one). Right now Pipeware is enabled, but is there any possibility to just get rid of one of the servers? I want to keep it clean.

I messed something up and want to make it perfect at once, not to forget it :smiley:

Thank you.

Inxi - Aaz

Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Broadwell-U Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0 chip-ID: 8086:160c class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio vendor: Dell
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:9ca0
    class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.13.7-arch1-1 status: kernel-api
    tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.1 status: active with: 1: wireplumber
    status: active 2: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 3: pw-jack type: plugin
    tools: pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
  Server-2: PulseAudio v: 17.0-43-g3e2bb status: active with:
    1: pulseaudio-alsa type: plugin 2: pulseaudio-jack type: module
    tools: pacat,pactl,pavucontrol
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I don’t know what you did to solve the Bluetooth problem. Pipewire is the default for EndeavourOS.
Read this article to know how to properly implement it:
https://discovery.endeavouros.com/audio/pipewire/2021/09/

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Well, what I did was installing the pulse audio (didn’t know about pipeware then). After that collisions started to happen, so i figured out I have two servers. Tried to uninstall Pipeware and stuff with Pacman -Rs but it didnt run well. So I disabled one of the servers. Now everything works.

EDIT: In progress - i managed to remove pulseaudio-bluetooth and pulseaudio-jack by hand one by one. After that whole pulseaudio package could be removed without problems. We will see.

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You need to have one or the another. If you choose Pulseaudio and it works for you, fine, but Pipewire is default for EnOS. If you are content, I am not going to dispute :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Ok, so lets assume I’d like to have just Pipeware. Newer and default. Works. But how can I clean the mess after installing PulseAudio?

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It is described in the link I posted. When installing pipewire, it wants most probably remove other pulse packages. Let it remove them. Please read carefully the article. All you need to do is there.

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SOLVED!

Thank you. I found a solution there. Uninstalled everything from pulseaudio (only pulseaudio-gtk left) and installed pipeware once again. Right now only one active server exists and it seems everything id fine with sound and videos.

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What is this package? I don’t find it in the repositories. Not in AUR either.

How did you install it? From where?

pacman -Q | grep pulseaudio-gtk

What does it say?

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Sorry, pulseaudio-qt. My bad. You are right of course.

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You can leave that alone as it seems to be a dependency of other packages you have on your KDE Plasma: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/pulseaudio-qt/

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