No audio after reinstallation of Nvidia drivers

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Hi there. I have a problem with no audio after uninstalling Nvidia 390xx drivers and installing them again. Not sure if this is the couse of the problem, but now my audio icon on KDE is gone.

pactl info in terminal gets me “connection refused”

I use Fedora 36 with Linux 5.18

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More info:

Operating System: Fedora Linux 36
KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.96.0
Qt Version: 5.15.5
Kernel Version: 5.18.16-200.fc36.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 4 × AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor
Memory: 7.8 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: GeForce GT 730/PCIe/SSE2
Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Product Name: GA-770T-USB3
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Fixed by restoring with Timeshift. Remember to backup, folks!

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