How do I identify my sound card and verify the proper driver is installed?

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This appears to be about the 15th time in the last month that I could copy/paste same response

System has 2 active sound servers that are probably conflicting and causing audio issues

  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.25 running: yes

You can choose either:

  • Disable the pipewire systemd socket and service to continue using PulseAudio
systemctl --user mask --now pipewire.socket &&
systemctl --user stop pipewire.service

(KDE requires pipewire base package so uninstalling it is not possible for this DE)

OR

  • Install manjaro-pipewire metapackage to get the additional dependency files for Pipewire to replace PulseAudio

and all them seem to be on KDE

Absence of similar comments for other DEs would suggest that only KDE has a dependency on pipewire

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