No audio on newly installed OS - HP

Hello,

I am facing audio problem in my newly installed Manjaro KDE Plasma OS. I have setup a dual boot system along with Windows 11 OS. The following are some of the basic information related to my system.

DISTRIB_ID=ManjaroLinux
DISTRIB_RELEASE=22.0.4
DISTRIB_CODENAME=Sikaris
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Manjaro Linux"

Running the inxi -Fazy code, I am getting the following result.

Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl
    bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a348 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP107GL High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 link-max: gen: 3
    speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0fb9 class-ID: 0403
  Sound API: ALSA v: k6.1.12-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 running: no
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.65 running: no

In Windows 11, RealTek is my audio driver. For some reason, Manjaro is using NVIDIA GP107GL as the audio device.
Running the mhwd -lh -d --pci gives me the following result about my realtek.

PCI 400.0: ff00 Unclassified device
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/0000:04:00.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:04:00.0
  Hardware Class: unknown
  Device Name: "Realtek PCIE CardReader"
  Model: "Realtek RTS522A PCI Express Card Reader"
  Vendor: pci 0x10ec "Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd."
  Device: pci 0x522a "RTS522A PCI Express Card Reader"
  SubVendor: pci 0x103c "Hewlett-Packard Company"
  SubDevice: pci 0x84f8 
  Revision: 0x01
  Driver: "rtsx_pci"
  Driver Modules: "rtsx_pci"
  Memory Range: 0x84200000-0x84200fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  IRQ: 128 (8 events)
  Module Alias: "pci:v000010ECd0000522Asv0000103Csd000084F8bcFFsc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: rtsx_pci is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe rtsx_pci"
  Attached to: #24 (PCI bridge)

Thanks in advance for your time and support!


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your problem might be caused by your HP machine’s hardware; I’ve had two HP Laptops and they caused various problems with Linux distros, be it WiFi card not working, Fn keys not working, etc.; HP seems to run fine only with the M$ OS