How to know what audio driver am I using?

[nukecrayon]

Hello.
I installed the manjaro-pipewire thru the pamac and I want to know if I am currently using it right now or not. How can I know if where my sound coming from is pipewire, pulseAudio, Jack or ALSA?

Thank you guys (in advance and from my previous questions)!

[hans]

first step, to see what is installed and running: inxi -A

[nikgnomic]

Check system information

inxi -Ax | grep -E 'PulseAudio|PipeWire'

If you are using PulseAudio, sound servers should look like this:

  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.38 running: no

For PipeWire it should look like this:

  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.38 running: yes

[cscs]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Sound_system

pactl info

[nukecrayon]

hello.

this is the result:

Audio:     Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
           Device-2: AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590] driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.14.10-1-MANJARO running: yes
           Sound Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.38 running: yes

ah. it’s called “sound server”. thank you.
But why do I have two sound server?

[nukecrayon]

hi,

here’s the result:

Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no

thank you all for all the help manjaro community.

[nukecrayon]

hello,

Server String: /run/user/1000/pulse/native
Library Protocol Version: 35
Server Protocol Version: 35
Is Local: yes
Client Index: 58
Tile Size: 65472
User Name: ****
Host Name: Manjaro-PC
Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 0.3.38)
Server Version: 15.0.0
Default Sample Specification: float32le 2ch 48000Hz
Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Default Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
Default Source: alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
Cookie: 42d2:7531

it says pulseAudio on pipewire. so it’s a layer only for pulseaudio. thank you.