Just installed Manjaro, No sound

I installed Manjaro yesterday on my ROG laptop and I have not been able to get the sound to work, even trying to use the solutions I found on this forum. I can’t even diagnose the problem- it seems to me that the computer is able to detect the source of the sound, based on the fact that the audio volume screen is registering sound, but the speakers don’t play anything.

Now, I should point out that this machine started with Windows 11 on it, I’ve already installed Manjaro on another hard drive and removed the drive with Win11. I don’t know if that means anything, but I figure the question might be asked.

Here’s my inxi. I’ll try to answer any questions you might have.

System:
  Kernel: 6.6.10-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
    clocksource: tsc available: acpi_pm
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.6-x86_64
    root=UUID=03ca5d33-7b48-4a8a-ac38-78c7a4db0c1c rw quiet splash
    udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.10 tk: Qt v: 5.15.12 wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1
    dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: ROG Strix G614JV_G614JV v: 1.0
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: G614JV v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: G614JV.321 date: 10/24/2023
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 89.3 Wh (100.0%) condition: 89.3/90.0 Wh (99.2%)
    volts: 17.5 min: 16.0 model: AS3GYFG3KC R220358 type: Unknown
    serial: <filter> status: full
CPU:
  Info: model: 13th Gen Intel Core i9-13980HX bits: 64 type: MST AMCP
    arch: Raptor Lake gen: core 13 level: v3 note: check built: 2022+
    process: Intel 7 (10nm) family: 6 model-id: 0xB7 (183) stepping: 1
    microcode: 0x11D
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 24 mt: 8 tpc: 2 st: 16 threads: 32 smt: enabled
    cache: L1: 2.1 MiB desc: d-16x32 KiB, 8x48 KiB; i-8x32 KiB, 16x64 KiB
    L2: 32 MiB desc: 8x2 MiB, 4x4 MiB L3: 36 MiB desc: 1x36 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 812 high: 958 min/max: 800/5400:5600:4000 scaling:
    driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 958 2: 800 3: 893 4: 800
    5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 9: 800 10: 800 11: 800 12: 800 13: 822 14: 800
    15: 800 16: 800 17: 800 18: 800 19: 800 20: 800 21: 800 22: 800 23: 927
    24: 800 25: 800 26: 800 27: 800 28: 800 29: 800 30: 800 31: 800 32: 800
    bogomips: 154880
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS, IBPB: conditional,
    RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: SW sequence
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Raptor Lake-S UHD Graphics vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915
    v: kernel arch: Gen-13 process: Intel 7 (10nm) built: 2022+ ports:
    active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 0000:00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:a788 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA AD107M [GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q / Mobile] vendor: ASUSTeK
    driver: nvidia v: 545.29.06 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 545.xx+
    status: current (as of 2023-11) arch: Lovelace code: AD1xx
    process: TSMC n4 (5nm) built: 2022+ bus-ID: 0000:01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:28e0
    class-ID: 0300
  Device-3: Sonix USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-8:4 chip-ID: 322e:2122
    class-ID: 0e02
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.10 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.3
    compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia
    alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915,nvidia display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1536x960 size: N/A modes: N/A
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0
    drv: nvidia device: 1 drv: iris device: 3 drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast
    surfaceless: drv: nvidia wayland: drv: iris x11: drv: iris
    inactive: device-2
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 23.3.3-manjaro1.1
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel Graphics (RPL-S)
    device-ID: 8086:a788 memory: 30.24 GiB unified: yes display-ID: :1.0
  API: Vulkan v: 1.3.274 layers: 1 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu name: NVIDIA
    GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU driver: nvidia v: 545.29.06
    device-ID: 10de:28e0 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    alternate: snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 0000:00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:7a50
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    bus-ID: 0000:01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:22be class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.6.10-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
    type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Intel driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: N/A bus-ID: 0000:00:14.3
    chip-ID: 8086:7a70 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 4000 bus-ID: 0000:6c:00.0
    chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp108s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX211 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-14:5 chip-ID: 8087:0033
    class-ID: e001
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller Intel
    driver: vmd v: 0.6 port: N/A bus-ID: 0000:00:0e.0 chip-ID: 8086:a77f rev:
    class-ID: 0104
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 4.64 TiB used: 10.39 GiB (0.2%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital
    model: WD BLACK SN850X 1000GB size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
    fw-rev: 620361WD temp: 48.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 maj-min: 259:3 model: XG7000-4TB 2280 size: 3.73 TiB
    block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4
    tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: SN13683 temp: 38.9 C scheme: MBR
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 931.22 GiB size: 915.53 GiB (98.32%) used: 10.39 GiB (1.1%)
    fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 296 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 48.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 2000
Info:
  Processes: 483 Uptime: 0m wakeups: 0 Memory: total: 32 GiB note: est.
  available: 30.97 GiB used: 2.36 GiB (7.6%) Init: systemd v: 255
  default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 13.2.1 clang: 16.0.6
  Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1178 libs: 343 tools: gnome-software,pamac
  pm: flatpak pkgs: 0 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 default: Bash v: 5.2.21
  running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.31

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you may want to search for help here: https://asus-linux.org/. newer ROG laptops are known to have no audio support on Linux due to missing DSD entries in their UEFI firmware. sudo mhwd-kernel -i linux67 might do the trick …

I’ll try it out.

I was fiddling further with the system last night and I did find out that I can get sound when I plug in a headset.

Perhaps it thinks that there’s always a headset plugged in?

EDIT: Your solution seems to have worked immediately after the restart.

Thank you very much.

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