No audio from speakers on Asus laptop

The modprobe option and pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths reconfiguration has been confirmed to work previously on this forum for ROG Strix G512LU

PipeWire package alsa-card-profiles provides copies of /pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/ configurations at /usr/share/alsa-card-profile/mixer/paths/

$ pamac search -f analog-output.conf.common
/usr/share/alsa-card-profile/mixer/paths/analog-output.conf.common is owned by alsa-card-profiles
/usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-output.conf.common is owned by pulseaudio

so for PipeWire:

sudo nano +136 /usr/share/alsa-card-profile/mixer/paths/analog-output.conf.common

and add

    [Element Master]
    switch = mute
    volume = ignore

mixer/paths/analog-output.conf.common – alsa-card-profile · GitLab