Mute sound led not working on HP Pavilion Laptop 15-eg0039nm

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When I mute the volume (fn + f5) the audio mutes but the led doesn’t light up

inxi -F

System:
  Host: vidakov-laptop Kernel: 5.17.15-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64
    Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.24.6 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Pavilion Laptop 15-eg0xxx
    v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 8850 v: 34.31 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Insyde
    v: F.30 date: 03/11/2022
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 39.4 Wh (100.0%) condition: 39.4/39.4 Wh (100.0%)
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: 11th Gen Intel Core i7-1165G7 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    cache: L2: 5 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1002 min/max: 400/4700 cores: 1: 1038 2: 1161 3: 1172
    4: 678 5: 861 6: 948 7: 1086 8: 1079
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] driver: i915 v: kernel
  Device-2: NVIDIA TU117M [GeForce MX450] driver: nvidia v: 515.57
  Device-3: Luxvisions Innotech HP Wide Vision HD Camera type: USB
    driver: uvcvideo
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.4 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.3 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting,nvidia gpu: i915 resolution: 1920x1080
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel Xe Graphics (TGL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.1.3
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio
    driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.17.15-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.56 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8822CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
    driver: rtw_8822ce
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: 64:6c:80:26:38:43
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller driver: vmd
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 322.32 GiB (67.6%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Intel model: SSDPEKNW512G8H size: 476.94 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 468.09 GiB used: 322.29 GiB (68.9%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 299.4 MiB used: 32.3 MiB (10.8%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 512 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 56.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 fan-2: 0
Info:
  Processes: 249 Uptime: 2h 0m Memory: 15.4 GiB used: 3.35 GiB (21.7%)
  Shell: Zsh inxi: 3.3.19

inxi -Axx

Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl bus-ID: 0000:00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a0c8
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.17.15-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: sndio v: N/A running: no
  Sound Server-3: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
  Sound Server-4: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-5: PipeWire v: 0.3.56 running: yes

Edit: inxi -Aax now shows this for some reason I didn’t change anything

Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
    alternate: snd_hda_intel,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 0000:00:1f.3
    chip-ID: 8086:a0c8 class-ID: 0401
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.17.15-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: sndio v: N/A running: no
  Sound Server-3: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
  Sound Server-4: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-5: PipeWire v: 0.3.56 running: yes
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just a guess, try switching kernels - 5.18, 5.15 and test with them

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I’ve tried with kernel 5.17 and 5.15 I can’t test with 5.18 because of this NVIDIA - ArchWiki

I see that people fixed this but had the snd_hda_intel driver meanwhile I have the
sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl and snd_hda_intel only showing as an alternative

4

so try this:
sudo modprobe -r sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
sudo modprobe snd_hda_intel
then try muting

5

Will sudo modprobe -r sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl uninstall the driver or just unload it beacuse I want to keep it if something doesn’t work so I can restore it

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no, it will just remove it, the other modprobe will load the snd hda and test if it works with it… you can then restore the sof with:
sudo modprobe sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl

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One small problem

sudo modprobe -r sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl                                                                                           1 ✘  3s  
modprobe: FATAL: Module sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl not found.
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so try this then:
sudo modprobe snd_hda_intel
try mute
if it doesnt work output from:
lsmod | grep sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl

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Both commands didn’t produce any output inxi -Aax is the same

lsmod | grep snd_hda_intel

snd_hda_intel          61440  0
snd_intel_dspcfg       36864  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_sof_intel_hda_common
snd_hda_codec         184320  7 snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_soc_intel_hda_dsp_common,snd_soc_hdac_hda,snd_soc_skl_hda_dsp
snd_hda_core          118784  11 snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_ext_core,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_soc_intel_hda_dsp_common,snd_sof_intel_hda_common,snd_soc_hdac_hdmi,snd_soc_hdac_hda,snd_sof_intel_hda
snd_pcm               167936  11 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,soundwire_intel,snd_sof,snd_sof_intel_hda_common,snd_soc_hdac_hdmi,snd_compress,snd_soc_core,snd_hda_core,snd_pcm_dmaengine
snd                   126976  26 snd_ctl_led,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hwdep,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_sof,snd_timer,snd_soc_hdac_hdmi,snd_compress,snd_soc_core,snd_pcm,snd_soc_skl_hda_dsp

grep Codec /proc/asound/card*/codec*

/proc/asound/card0/codec#0:Codec: Realtek ALC287
/proc/asound/card0/codec#2:Codec: Intel Tigerlake HDMI
10

check this link:

it should be supported on the 5,18 kernels…

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Looks interesting.
I’ll ether wait for nvidia to support it or install the nvidia open kernel modules but I don’t know how stable that is on manjaro

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and why cant you switch to the 5.18? you just provide a link to nvidias arch wiki…

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Go to installation and read the note

14

i see, you need to add this parameter:
ibt=off
and then you will be able to boot normally

15

I’ve heard it’s unsecure what about the nvidia open kernel modules or is that unstable?

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i wouldnt worry that much about it:
This security feature is responsible for mitigating a class of exploit techniques, but is deemed safe as a temporary stopgap solution

i dont know about those open nvidia drivers… but its very likely that it is unstable … and do you use your nvidia card for gaming etc…?

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I’ll try it but yes I use my nvidia gpu for gaming and a little video editing

18

if the mute light is bothering you that much, then give it a try …

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I’m going to try the ibt=off way

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you can just install the 5.18 kernel, reboot and in grub menu press E and add the parameter there … if the mute light works you can add it to /etc/default/grub, update grub, to make it permanent