HP Envy x360 13-ar0022nn AMD Ryzen 5 3500U sound problem

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I am no expert on this hardware, and I can’t find out much about it online yet

Archiwiki has some reports about AMD Raven laptops but just mention that audio works with the latest packages

Pulseaudio is not running (alsa-info data confirms this) and must be restored before continuing work on original problem with speakers

suggest uninstall sof-firmware and reinstall pulseaudio-git to clear changes made

and install latest v5.9 kernel
go to Manjaro Settings Manager manjaro-settings-manager -m msm_kernel and click Install

and also remove the home folder configuration for Pulseaudio

rm -r ~/.config/pulse/

reboot

and hope for better ALSA data and working Pulseaudio

Observations from alsa-info data

Onboard analog still only has one speaker output connection

!!ALSA/HDA dmesg

[   10.884149] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC1D0: autoconfig for ALC285: line_outs=1 (0x17/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0) type:speaker
[   10.884152] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC1D0:    speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[   10.884154] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC1D0:    hp_outs=1 (0x21/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)

Pin configurations in !!HDA-Intel Codec information show this for the ‘working’ speakers

Node 0x17 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40058d: Stereo Amp-Out

  Pin Default 0x90170180: [Fixed] Speaker at Int N/A

  Connection: 3
     0x02 0x03* 0x06

and is showing a connection to

Node 0x03 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x41d: Stereo Amp-Out
  Control: name="Speaker Playback Volume"

so the most likely un-used connections for retasking
(all shown as Pin Default 0x411111f0: [N/A] Speaker at Ext Rear)

Node 0x16 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40058d: Stereo Amp-Out
   Connection: 2
     0x02* 0x03

Node 0x1b [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40058f: Stereo Amp-In Amp-Out
  Connection: 2
     0x02* 0x03

less likely to be these, unless a connection can be made to 0x03 by retasking

Node 0x14 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40058d: Stereo Amp-Out
  Connection: 1
     0x02

Node 0x1e [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400501: Stereo
  Connection: 1
     0x06

These have no Connections and appear to be inputs

Node 0x18 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40048b: Stereo Amp-In

Node 0x1a [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40048b: Stereo Amp-In
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