A few weeks ago I got a capture card and was trying to use loopback audio devices. After getting things working, I was unhappy with the overall result, and in my effort to roll back any and all of the changes I had my on my PC I began having audio issues. Namely, my onboard audio card started producing a very low volume static and nothing else. I found a post suggesting that two pieces of audio software on my PC were incompatible. After seeing that both pieces of software only possessed “optional” dependences, I picked one at random (pipewire) and removed it. After rebooting my PC, I’m at where I am now. — Needless to say, it appears it wasn’t quite as “optional” as I would’ve liked.
Although I reached out for help on this forum in the audio area, it seems I need some xorg/GNOME help as well now… Ooops.
I have quite a few details in my audio post here. If there’s any other information I could provide, don’t hesitate to ask.
pipewire is a requirement of quite a few GNOME packages, it cannot be removed without breakage as you found out the hard way. Either reinstall what you removed or nuke from orbit and start over.
seems rather pointless… but letting it stay just in case…
To my disappointment wayland seems to be now required by everything… although in reality it’s never used … go figure…
My ignorance tells me that the only thing I removed was pipewire because it’s the only thing I actively selected to be removed… But here’s my pacman.log — And I will admit it looks kinda sketchy. That having been said, if I’m right, and only removed pipewire, why hasn’t reinstalling it fixed it yet?
I appreciate the insight @Yochanan . Still surprised that paman only listed 6 items as being dependent on pipewire, all of which labeled as “optional”, but maybe I just missed somethig.
