Audio driver/execution issues

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Good afternoon Manjaro community.
Today I removed my VGA as it was displaying artifacts.
I turned off the system, removed the VGA hardware, turned on the system using CPU graphics.
Everything working normally, but the audio icon is gone and the system is not sending any audio.
Can someone help me?

inxi

CPU: dual core Intel Pentium G3250 (-MCP-) speed/min/max: 2089/800/3200 MHz
Kernel: 5.15.65-1-MANJARO x86_64 Up: 2m Mem: 1059.9/7859.8 MiB (13.5%)
Storage: 223.57 GiB (48.1% used) Procs: 140 Shell: Zsh inxi: 3.3.21

inxi -Aa

Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0 chip-ID: 8086:0c0c
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:8c20
    class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.65-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: no

systemctl status alsa-state

○ alsa-state.service - Manage Sound Card State (restore and store)
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/alsa-state.service; static)
     Active: inactive (dead)
  Condition: start condition failed at Mon 2022-10-03 12:35:27 -03; 3min 53s ago
             └─ ConditionPathExists=/etc/alsa/state-daemon.conf was not met

out 03 12:35:27 manjaro systemd[1]: Manage Sound Card State (restore and store) was skipped because>
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alsa-state.service is usually inactive because Manjaro usually uses alsa-restore service to restore ALSA settings at boot time

I suggest checking that alsa-restore service service is working as expected

systemctl -l --no-pager status alsa-restore.service

And also checking PulseAudio service to find out why PulseAudio is not running

systemctl --user -l --no-pager status pulseaudio.*

Since PulseAudio is not running, you might also want to test audio playback to onboard audio ALSA device for to check audio to headphones/speakers is working as expected

speaker-test -D hw:1,0 -f dat -c2 -l2

When PulseAudio is restarted, speaker-test can also be used via PulseAudio

speaker-test -D pulse -f dat -c2 -l2
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alsa-state.service is usually inactive because Manjaro usually uses alsa-restore service to restore ALSA settings at boot time

I suggest checking that alsa-restore service service is working as expected

systemctl -l --no-pager status alsa-restore.service

And also checking PulseAudio service to find out why PulseAudio is not running

systemctl --user -l --no-pager status pulseaudio.*

Since PulseAudio is not running, you might also want to test audio playback to onboard audio ALSA device for to check audio to headphones/speakers is working as expected

speaker-test -D hw:1,0 -f dat -c2 -l2

When PulseAudio is restarted speaker-test can also be used via PulseAudio

speaker-test -D pulse -f dat -c2 -l2
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Well… I installed PulseAudio (it seemed to be uninstalled) and restarted the machine… miraculously the audio started working again on the front output of the case, but the rear output remains inactive.

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Check ALSA audio settings for onboard audio:

sudo alsamixer -c1 --view=Playback

Mixer control for rear jack might be Speaker, Line or Front

Use ↑ and ↓ to adjust level

If control is muted [MM] - use M to unmute [OO]

If this is a desktop system I also suggest Auto-mute mode is set to Disabled so audio to rear jack is not muted in ALSA when headphones are plugged in to front jack

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