Sound stopped working for Manjaro with i3

[Stable Update] 2023-12-01

Linux 6.5 is EOL and will be removed from the repo.If you use Linux 6.5 and Nvidia or as virtual machine, it is of great importance, that you install Linux 6.6 to avoid driver problems.

sudo mhwd-kernel -i linux66

If audio is not working with new kernel, check audio devices and sink outputs in PulseAudio

pactl list cards; pactl list sinks