Audio Pro devices and no sound output

Every once in a while an update changes all the audio devices on my Dell XPS 15 to only show several Audio Pro devices. None of these actually output anything. The strange thing is that it will just start working again on other updates (I think nix-hardware?).

Has anybody seen this issue? I’ve tried all sorts of searches and have fond nothing. Also, not hardware is not my strong suit, so help troubleshooting would be appreciated.

This is what I have on my configuration.nix

  # Enable sound with pipewire.
  # sound.enable = true;
  security.rtkit.enable = true;
  services.pipewire = {
    enable = true;
    alsa.enable = true;
    alsa.support32Bit = true;
    pulse.enable = true;
    # If you want to use JACK applications, uncomment this
    #jack.enable = true;

    # use the example session manager (no others are packaged yet so this is enabled by default,
    # no need to redefine it in your config for now)
    #media-session.enable = true;
  };

I’ve definitely seen the issue, don’t recall what causes it though.

You could try running pavucontrol, go to “configuration” tab and see if you can select a different profile for the soundcard than “Pro-Audio”.

I should have mentioned, in KDE and also pavucontrol, the only options are “Audio Pro”/“Pro Audio” or off.