(Solved) Trying to setup wireplumber

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if youre goingto use your own user config for wireplumber then
youll need to enable it

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Is there a simpler option? I was just following the instructions on the wiki

I wouldn't mind not using my own Config

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first answer my question

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Pipewire

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are you using pulseaudio or pipewire-pulse

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did you install the entire suite

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Pipewire - pulse

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pipewire pipewire-pulse pipewire-jack pipewire-alsa

show me
pacman -Qs pulse
pacman -Qs pipewire

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https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/WirePlumber#Installation

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.

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I followed this guide and got the wire plumber package

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just show me

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Alright sorry geez just saying what I installed

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i already know that you used the wiki

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Alright one moment

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did you do systemctl enable --user wireplumber

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and rebooted

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delete the .config/wireplumber for that

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I either did that with wireplumber or pipewire earlier

want me to try it?

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so that itll use the default config in /etc

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yes
reboot after

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alright i'll let you know when that's done

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wait
i just noticed
there's nothing in your devices

i think your sound card isnt being detected

is this a laptop?

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it's a laptop yeah

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you will need to install sof-firmware for built in sound systems for some laptops

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did the things but haven't rebooted, still want me to reboot?

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install this first then reboot

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is that an aur package?

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no

it's in extra

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I don't follow

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you can just
pacman -S sof-firmware

it's in the extra repo

there's around 6 official repos for arch
core,communities,extra are enabled by default

multilib,multilib-testing,testing you'll have to enable in pacman.conf

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ok installed

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weird
why is libsoup empty

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im not sure

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could you reinstall libsoup
output should look like this

╰───❯ sudo pacman -S sof-firmware
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) sof-firmware-2.2.1-1

Total Download Size:    0.63 MiB
Total Installed Size:  16.79 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
:: Retrieving packages...
 sof-firmware-2.2.1-1-x86_64  646.1 KiB   187 KiB/s 00:03 [-------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                            [-------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity                          [-------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                               [-------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                         [-------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space                       [-------------------------------] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) installing sof-firmware                             [-------------------------------] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/1) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
╭─[i0bz@arch]-[~]
╰───❯```

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yeah

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something is wrong here

pacman -S libsoup --overwrite

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on it

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sudo pacman -S --overwrite libsoup

i forgor (💀) that it needs to be behind

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no worries

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wait what

fuck it
just sudo pacman -Rnsdd libsoup && sudo pacman -S libsoup

this should delete and redeploy those empty files

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if it's still empty
idk anymore
try rebooting after that to see if enabling the service

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ok

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add dd
i forgot libsoup had alot of stuff that deps on it

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just add dd to sudo pacman -Rns libsoup && sudo pacman -S libsoup ?

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yes

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-dd makes it so that pacman ignores dep check

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no in the -Rns

-Rnsdd

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like this

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did I er do that correctly?

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eh no
but atleast the first part was goot

check if /usr/lib/libsoup.... still exists

ls /usr/lib/libsoup*

if there's no output then sudo pacman -S libsoup

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got an output

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ok so it seems like
those files arent being managed by pacman

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I mainly use yay, could that be why?

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sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/libsoup*
some thing probably happened as to why those are empty files

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no
yay is a pacman wrapper

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did you ever had a sudden powerloss?

cus that could lead to empty files if youre not using cow filesystems

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nope, but I did sort of brick my install earlier

I was trying to uninstall pulse audio instead of do the simple thing and replace it with with pipewire and I ended up messing up my system md I think

light window manager I think it was

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after the rm -rf sudo pacman -S libsoup again
to see if theyre no longer empty files as pacman says it

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I was able to fix it with help from a friend

the bricked os thing

wait like that?

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add && in between

-rf and sudo

wait no

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ok

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sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/libsoup* && ....

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ok it's good now

as for it maybe fixing your audio
that's up for your system to decide
cus knowing that there are empty files in your filesystem
i dont think we've dealt with all of them

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should I reboot?

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yes to see first

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ok

alright back after rebooting

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so

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oh right

should I theoretically be able to hear now?

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i hope

try and see

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I HEAR

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pog

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can I be your arch pog champ?

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you can set this as solved now then

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hold on one more thing

can I use this to screenshare with audio now?

or do I need to do some more stuff for that?

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mmm yes
you technically cant share screenshot with audio in discord for now but there are work arounds like routing your audio to your mic
which you can do in pipewire

you'll need helvum,qjackctl or pavucontrol for that

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that was the main reason for me coming back to pipewire

do those have gui's?

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if you want the gui way
idk much about the cli way other than making a sink

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oh sweet

as long as it's not uh this brain breaking bullshit lmao

I tried so hard to understand that

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are these pretty straightforward to use?

(Solved) Trying to setup wireplumber

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eh
kinda

pavucontrol is a bit more confusing than the other 2 since it doesnt visualize the connections

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alright, well i'll give it a shot on my own if you think I can handle it, if I run into a problem i'll make another thread, thank you btw