No audio nor video in i3wm

[chelmi00]

I couldn’t make my bluetooth headphones work as in pavucontrol, the only output devices I had are speakers and headphones (unplugged). I tried installing things to solve it, but I made it worse:

$ history
  424  sudo pacman -Syu
  425  sudo pacman -Syu
  426  exit
  427  sudo pacman -S pavucontrol
  428  pavucontrol
  429  sudo pacman -S pulseaudio pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
  430  sudo pacman -S pulseaudio 
  431  ls .config
  432  mv ~/.config/pulse/ Downloads/pulse
  433  systemctl --user restart pulseaudio
  434  reboot
  435  diff Downloads/pulse/ .config/pulse/
  436  rm -rf .config/pulse/
  437  mv Downloads/pulse/ .config/pulse
  438  systemctl --user restart pulseaudio
  439  pactl list | grep -C2 A2DP
  440  pacmd list-cards
  441  pacmd list-sinks
  442  dmesg | grep -i bluetooth
  443  alsamixer
  444  amixer -c 0 scontrols
  445  pulseaudio -k
  446  pactl load-module module-bluetooth-discover
  447  pactl
  448  sudo systemctl restart bluetooth
  449  pavucontrol --show-all-sinks
  450  pavucontrol --restart
  451  sudo pacman -S bluez-libs bluez-alsa
  452  yay -S pulseaudio-bluetooth-git
  453  yay -R pulseaudio-bluetooth-git
  454  sudo pacman -R pulseaudio-bluetooth-git
  455  sudo pacman -S bluez-libs
  456  yay -S bluez-alsa-git
  457  sudo systemctl status bluetooth
  458  pacman -Qqt
  459  pacman -Q bluez
  460  sudo hciconfig hci0 down
  461  hciconfig hci0 down
  462  reboot
  463  pacmd dump; pactl list cards
  464  pamac install manjaro-pipewire
  465  reboot
  466  sudo pacman -R manjaro-pipewire
  467  sudo pacman -R pipewire
  468  sudo pacman -Rns pipewire gst-plugin-pipewire pipewire-alsa pipewire-audio pipewire-pulse telegram-desktop wireplumber xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
  469  sudo pacman -Rns pipewire
  470  sudo pacman -Rns  gst-plugin-pipewire pipewire-alsa pipewire-audio pipewire-pulse telegram-desktop wireplumber xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
  471  sudo pacman -S pulseaudio 
  472  reboot
  473  bluetoothctl devices
  474  pactl list sinks short
  475  pactl list sinks short
  476  pactl list sinks short
  477  blueman
  478  sudo pacman -S blueman
  479  blueman-manager
  480  lxappearance
  481  history
  482  history
  483  yay -R pulseaudio-bluetooth-git
  484  sudo pacman -R pulseaudio-bluetooth-git
  485  sudo pacman -R pulseaudio-bluetooth
  486  sudo pacman -R bluez-alsa-git
  487      sudo pacman -R manjaro-pipewire
  488  sudo systemctl status bluetooth
  489  pavucontrol --restart
  490  pulseaudio --restart
  491  sudo systemctl status bluetooth
  492  sudo systemctl stop bluetooth
  493  sudo systemctl start bluetooth
  494  alsamixer
  495  sudo pacman -R pipewire
  496  alsamixer
  497  alsamixer
  498  exit
  499  xterm
  500  xprop
  501  urxvt
  502  qt5ct
  503  sudo pacman -S ffmeg
  504  sudo pacman -S ffmpeg
  505  sudo pacman -R ffmpeg

Most of these commands didn’t work, I was trying anything I saw online. The output is that audio stopped working and now, any video or audio also fails to run. I tried videos on qutebrowser, chromium, and whatsdesk, and an audio on whatsdesk.
For further information, I run in my i3-config file “exec --no-startup-id volumeicon”, but when I start using my pc, it isn’t there, but I can open it myself. Also, when I open alsamixer, I can see that the default card is pipewire now (which wasn’t before)

[ruziel]

Hi & welcome to Manjaro. Is this a new install? I don’t have much tech expertise, so cannot help you unfortunately.

If it’s a new install, you could consider reinstalling. Also, would you consider a different windows manager? If so, I would suggest KDE or Xfce, which I would expect to give you less issues. Finally, what kernel are you using? If you have gone for a bleeding edge kernel, it might be worth trying one of the LTS kernels, just to rule that out.

Sorry I can’t be more help & welcome!

Ruziel

[chelmi00]

Hi Ruziel, thanks for trying to help.
No, it is not a new install, I considered reinstalling already, but it is not feasable. I’m not changing i3wm, honestly, I have used gnome, kde, xfce, and a couple more DE, but i3wm is my way to go for almost 3 years now.

$ uname -srm
Linux 6.10.13-3-MANJARO x86_64

[chelmi00]

I believe I solved it, but I don’t know why.
I tried the following things:

$ history
  529  aplay -l
  530  alsamixer
  531  amixer -c1 sset 'Auto-Mute Mode' disabled
  532  amixer
  533  amixer -c0 sset 'Auto-Mute Mode' disabled
  534  amixer -c 0 sset 'Auto-Mute Mode' disabled
  535  aplay -l
  536  speaker-test -D hw:0,0 -c 2
  537  speaker-test -D hw:0,3 -c 2
  538  speaker-test -D hw:0,7 -c 2
  539  speaker-test -D hw:0,8 -c 2
  540  reboot
  541  alsamixer
  542  amixer --card=0
  543  rm ~/.config/pulse/*.tdb ~/.config/pulse/cookie
  544  reboot

This didn’t do anything, I believe, but it may open eyes.

What solved it was the following:

$history
  566  sudo pacman -S volumeicon
  567  git status
  568  git diff .config/mimeapps.list
  569  git diff .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
  570  vim .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
  571  git diff .gtkrc-2.0
  572  vim .gtkrc-2.0

$ git status
On branch manjaro
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/manjaro'.
Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git restore <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
	modified:   .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
	modified:   .config/mimeapps.list
	modified:   .config/warp-terminal/user_preferences.json
	modified:   .gtkrc-2.0

Both git diff .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini and git diff .config/gtk-3.0/.gtkrc-2.0 had the following lines:

-gtk-icon-theme-name=Papirus-Dark-Maia
+gtk-icon-theme-name=breeze-dark

Returning to Papirus-Dark-Maia solved it, but I have no idea why. However it didn’t solve the bluetooth output problem, and vlc video stopped working.

[ruziel]

I’m glad to see you managed to solve that one. Go well on Manjaro! R