Hello everyone, I have thoroughly searched the interwebs for a solution to my problem by alas I need extra assistance. I just updated Manjaro to 5.12.2.1 kernel and since then the speaker icon is on Mute and the audio settings say that No output or input devices are found.
$ pactl list sources
Source #0
State: SUSPENDED
Name: auto_null.monitor
Description: Monitor of Dummy Output
Driver: module-null-sink.c
Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Owner Module: 16
Mute: no
Volume: front-left: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB, front-right: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB
balance 0.00
Base Volume: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB
Monitor of Sink: auto_null
Latency: 0 usec, configured 0 usec
Flags: DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY
Properties:
device.description = "Monitor of Dummy Output"
device.class = "monitor"
device.icon_name = "audio-input-microphone"
Formats:
pcm
$ inxi -Fxxxx
System: Host: yassir-hpx2 Kernel: 5.12.2-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.20.4 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine: Type: Detachable System: HP product: HP x2 Detachable 10-p0XX v: N/A serial: <superuser/root required>
Chassis: type: 32 serial: <superuser/root required>
Mobo: HP model: 827C v: 93.23 serial: <superuser/root required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: F.35
date: 06/03/2020
Battery: ID-1: BATC charge: 11.7 Wh condition: 19.2/32.6 Wh (59%) volts: 8.6/7.7 model: Intel SR 1 SR Real Battery
type: Li-ion serial: 123456789 status: Charging
CPU: Info: Quad Core model: Intel Atom x5-Z8350 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Airmont rev: 4 L2 cache: 1024 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 bogomips: 11524
Speed: 480 MHz min/max: 480/1920 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 480 2: 602 3: 480 4: 480
Graphics: Device-1: Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Integrated Graphics
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:22b0
Device-2: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) HP TrueVision HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus ID: 1-4.2:5
chip ID: 05c8:03a3 serial: 200901010001
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: intel unloaded: modesetting,vesa
alternate: fbdev resolution: 1280x800~60Hz s-dpi: 96
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics (CHV) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.3 compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Series Imaging Unit driver: N/A
bus ID: 00:03.0 chip ID: 8086:22b8
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.12.2-1-MANJARO
Network: Device-1: Intel Wireless 3165 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 8086:3165
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: 00:16:eb:4a:ef:e8
Drives: Local Storage: total: 1020.63 GiB used: 514.92 GiB (50.5%)
ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 vendor: Samsung model: BJNB4R size: 29.12 GiB serial: 0xcdc2f056 rev: 0x8 scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/mmcblk1 model: SDU1 size: 60.00 GiB serial: 0x14a11735 scheme: MBR
ID-3: /dev/sda type: USB vendor: Seagate model: BUP Slim RD size: 931.51 GiB serial: NA9T5YVL rev: 0108
scheme: MBR
Partition: ID-1: / size: 28.24 GiB used: 24.14 GiB (85.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/mmcblk0p2
Swap: ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 5.00 GiB used: 464.2 MiB (9.1%) priority: -2 file: /swapfile
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 63.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info: Processes: 227 Uptime: 29m Memory: 1.84 GiB used: 1.11 GiB (60.5%) Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers:
gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: 1338 pacman: 1329 snap: 9 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18 running in: yakuake inxi: 3.1.08