Audio output not working despite speakers being detected

My built-in speakers are detected but no sound comes out. When I play audio the little bar showing volume is going up and down, but no sound comes out. Even in a liveboot no sound comes out. I’m dualbooting Windows but I’m not sure this is the problem since even in liveboot I have no sound. (Sound works in Windows 10 though).

HDMI sound was working though.

inxi -Fazy:

System:
  Kernel: 5.15.12-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-x86_64 lang=en_US keytable=us tz=UTC
    misobasedir=manjaro misolabel=MANJARO_KDE_2121 quiet systemd.show_status=1
    apparmor=1 security=apparmor driver=nonfree nouveau.modeset=0
    i915.modeset=1 radeon.modeset=1
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.23.4 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
    Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Convertible System: HP product: HP Pavilion x360 Convertible 14-ba1xx
    v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 31
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 83C4 v: 31.61 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Insyde
    v: F.53 date: 05/16/2019
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 21.1 Wh (100.0%) condition: 21.1/21.1 Wh (100.0%)
    volts: 12.8 min: 11.6 model: 333-54-5D-A BK03041XL type: Li-ion
    serial: <filter> status: Full
  Device-1: hid-0018:04F3:251C.0002-battery model: ELAN0732:00 04F3:251C
    serial: N/A charge: N/A status: N/A
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i5-8250U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Coffee Lake
    family: 6 model-id: 0x8E (142) stepping: 0xA (10) microcode: 0xEA
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB
    L3: 6 MiB desc: 1x6 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 900 high: 901 min/max: 400/3400 scaling:
    driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 900 2: 901 3: 900 4: 900
    5: 900 6: 900 7: 900 8: 900 bogomips: 28808
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf
    mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: spec_store_bypass
    mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
  Type: spectre_v1
    mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
    IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915
    v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:5917 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Chicony HP Wide Vision HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 1-4:4 chip-ID: 04f2:b5d6 class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.org 1.21.1.2 compositor: kwin_x11 driver:
    loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
  Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
    chip-ID: 8086:9d71 class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.12-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.42 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW [Stone Peak] driver: iwlwifi
    v: kernel bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:24fb class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 3168 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-5:5 chip-ID: 8087:0aa7 class-ID: e001
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 961.33 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Toshiba model: MQ04ABF100
    size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: 1C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 type: USB vendor: Lexar
    model: USB Flash Drive size: 29.82 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
    logical: 512 B type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 1100 scheme: MBR
  SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Partition:
  Message: No partition data found.
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 38.0 C pch: 33.5 C mobo: 33.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 250 Uptime: 4m wakeups: 3 Memory: 15.5 GiB used: 2.5 GiB (16.1%)
  Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: N/A Packages:
  pacman: 1228 lib: 331 flatpak: 0 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 default: Bash v: 5.1.12
  running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.11

According to your “inxi -Fazy” output, pipewire-jack is probably not installed.

  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.12-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.42 running: yes

So maybe pipewire-jack is needed. And with qjackctl, which probably need to be installed, you can route the sound source to your speaker.
Screenshot_2022-02-09_21-14-48qjackctl2

Boot Windows, disable fast start or whatever it’s name, reboot and try again. I had a similar problem in my desktop and solved it like this.

A dual boot system might have a problem with Fast startup (hybrid hibernation)
How to disable Windows 10 fast startup (and why you'd want to) | Windows Central
(this name may be intended to be confused with fast boot option in BIOS )

System data shows Kernel: 5.15.12-1 but Manjaro stable branch currently has v5.15.19
I suggest you update system

I also suggest you consider updating system BIOS
Driver - HP Pavilion 14-ba000 x360 Convertible PC | HP® Customer Support

If audio is still not working it might be a problem in ALSA configuration or detection of onboard Realtek ALC269 &ndash: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio

check ALSA settings for speaker in:

alsamixer -c0

or post data here showing ALSA settings in text format

amixer -c0

That was in a live boot however… and previously sound worked in a live boot without needing to do anything.

Again, I’m in a live boot and the ISO is a little older so it’s an older version (Qonos 21.2.1). But that shouldn’t impede anything, should it? Also on a non liveboot that should be fully up to date, same issue.

amixer -c0:

Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 87
  Mono: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 87
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-65.25dB] [off]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-65.25dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Speaker',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 87
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 255
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost',0
  Capabilities: volume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: 0 - 3
  Front Left: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',1
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',2
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',3
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',4
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 63
  Front Left: Capture 50 [79%] [20.25dB] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 50 [79%] [20.25dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Auto-Mute Mode',0
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: 'Disabled' 'Enabled'
  Item0: 'Disabled'
Simple mixer control 'Internal Mic Boost',0
  Capabilities: volume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: 0 - 3
  Front Left: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]

Huh, after sending the computer to sleep then waking it up, the audio works. From this article: https://askubuntu.com/questions/955065/no-sound-on-ubuntu-windows-dual-boot

Manjaro Live ISO is not persistent and does not retain any changes when rebooted. So updating is not much use with a Live ISO because it will revert to original configuration and packages

But a Live ISO would not impede troubleshooting potential issue with Fast Startup on another OS or updating system BIOS

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