No sound from onboard device

I have a relatively new install of Manjaro.
Normally I use it with an external USB soundcard. However I am traveling and I can’t get any sound out of my onboard Tiger Lake HD sound system.
I know this card worked on my previous opensuse install, and it still works on the dual booted windows.
The current system also works with my bluetooth earbuds.

I have tried switching the sound settings between the three available options for this card, none work, but the first is the only one with a headphone option, which I need.

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I have also tested with VLC, manually setting the audio output device.

I can see the output bar moving in the task bar volume widget, but no sound out of my headphones.:

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inxi -Fazy output:

System:
  Kernel: 6.9.12-3-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
    clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.9-x86_64
    root=UUID=34637cd0-76ee-4bcd-be93-d49b5d11f6f0 rw quiet splash
    udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.0.5 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.5.0
    wm: kwin_x11 vt: 2 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Micro-Star product: GE66 Raider 11UE v: REV:1.0
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Micro-Star model: MS-1543 v: REV:1.0 serial: <superuser required>
    part-nu: 1543.1 uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC.
    v: E1543IMS.120 date: 10/28/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 69.0 Wh (97.2%) condition: 71.0/95.0 Wh (74.7%)
    volts: 16.3 min: 15.2 model: MSI BIF0_9 type: Li-ion serial: N/A
    status: not charging
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech MX Master 3S serial: <filter>
    charge: 90% rechargeable: yes status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: model: 11th Gen Intel Core i7-11800H bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Tiger Lake gen: core 11 level: v4 note: check built: 2020
    process: Intel 10nm family: 6 model-id: 0x8D (141) stepping: 1
    microcode: 0x52
  Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 8 cores: 8 threads: 16 tpc: 2
    smt: enabled cache: L1: 640 KiB desc: d-8x48 KiB; i-8x32 KiB L2: 10 MiB
    desc: 8x1.2 MiB L3: 24 MiB desc: 1x24 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 3688 min/max: 800/4600 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
    governor: powersave cores: 1: 3688 2: 3688 3: 3688 4: 3688 5: 3688 6: 3688
    7: 3688 8: 3688 9: 3688 10: 3688 11: 3688 12: 3688 13: 3688 14: 3688
    15: 3688 16: 3688 bogomips: 73744
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling mitigation: Microcode
  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: reg_file_data_sampling 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; BHI: SW loop, KVM: SW loop
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: i915 v: kernel alternate: xe arch: Gen-12.1 process: Intel 10nm
    built: 2020-21 ports: active: DP-1,eDP-1 empty: DP-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:9a60 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA GA106M [GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q]
    vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: nvidia v: 550.107.02
    alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 550.xx+ status: current (as of
    2024-09; EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Ampere code: GAxxx process: TSMC n7 (7nm)
    built: 2020-2023 pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:2520 class-ID: 0300
  Device-3: Bison Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 3-13:6 chip-ID: 5986:1160
    class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Device-4: USB C Video Adaptor driver: N/A type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
    lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 3-5:3 chip-ID: 25a4:9311 class-ID: 1100
    serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.13 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.2
    compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia
    alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 4608x1440 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1218x380mm (47.95x14.96")
    s-diag: 1276mm (50.23")
  Monitor-1: DP-1 pos: primary,top-left model: Samsung LS32A70
    serial: <filter> built: 2021 res: 2560x1440 hz: 60 dpi: 93 gamma: 1.2
    size: 698x393mm (27.48x15.47") diag: 806mm (31.7") ratio: 16:9 modes:
    max: 3840x2160 min: 720x400
  Monitor-2: eDP-1 pos: bottom-r model: Samsung 0x415f built: 2019
    res: 2048x1152 hz: 60 dpi: 151 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64")
    diag: 395mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: 3840x2160
  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: iris
    surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11: drv: iris inactive: wayland,device-2
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.1.6-arch1.1
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (TGL GT1)
    device-ID: 8086:9a60 memory: 7.48 GiB unified: yes
  API: Vulkan v: 1.3.279 layers: 5 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu name: NVIDIA
    GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU driver: nvidia v: 550.107.02
    device-ID: 10de:2520 surfaces: xcb,xlib
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-H HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl alternate: snd_hda_intel, snd_soc_avs,
    snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:43c8 class-ID: 0401
  Device-2: NVIDIA GA106 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228e class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.9.12-3-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
    type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.3 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek Killer E3000 2.5GbE vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169
    v: kernel pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 4000 bus-ID: 2f:00.0
    chip-ID: 10ec:3000 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp47s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX210/AX1675 2x2 [Typhoon Peak]
    vendor: Rivet Networks Killer driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: gen: 2
    speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 31:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2725 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp49s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Info: services: NetworkManager, sshd, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX210 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 3-14:7 chip-ID: 8087:0032
    class-ID: e001
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.84 TiB used: 1.15 TiB (62.6%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:4 vendor: Micron model: 3400 MTFDKBA1T0TFH
    size: 953.87 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s
    lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: P7MA000 temp: 48.9 C
    scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital
    model: WD Green SN350 1TB size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
    fw-rev: 33006000 temp: 24.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 195.31 GiB size: 191.19 GiB (97.89%)
    used: 57.24 GiB (29.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:6
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 300 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:5
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 758.26 GiB size: 745.3 GiB (98.29%)
    used: 522.99 GiB (70.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:7
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: yes
    compressor: zstd max-pool: 20%
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 16 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 55.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est. available: 15.32 GiB used: 6.06 GiB (39.6%)
  Processes: 367 Power: uptime: 7m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
    avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
    suspend, test_resume image: 6.1 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,
    power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 256 default: graphical
    tool: systemctl
  Packages: 1424 pm: pacman pkgs: 1414 libs: 396 tools: pamac pm: rpm pkgs: 0
    pm: flatpak pkgs: 10 Compilers: clang: 18.1.8 gcc: 14.2.1 alt: 10 Shell: Zsh
    v: 5.9 default: Bash v: 5.2.32 running-in: yakuake inxi: 3.3.36

output of alsa-info.sh:
http://alsa-project.org/db/?f=d84997ff36f8cd354382ae28a8db18aa86f0dc57

output of pactl list cards:

Card #42
	Name: alsa_card.pci-0000_01_00.1
	Driver: alsa
	Owner Module: n/a
	Properties:
		api.acp.auto-port = "false"
		api.alsa.card = "0"
		api.alsa.card.longname = "HDA NVidia at 0x84080000 irq 17"
		api.alsa.card.name = "HDA NVidia"
		api.alsa.path = "hw:0"
		api.alsa.use-acp = "true"
		api.dbus.ReserveDevice1 = "Audio0"
		api.dbus.ReserveDevice1.Priority = "-20"
		device.api = "alsa"
		device.bus = "pci"
		device.bus_path = "pci-0000:01:00.1"
		device.description = "GA106 High Definition Audio Controller"
		device.enum.api = "udev"
		device.icon_name = "audio-card-analog-pci"
		device.name = "alsa_card.pci-0000_01_00.1"
		device.nick = "HDA NVidia"
		device.plugged.usec = "4857782"
		device.product.id = "0x228e"
		device.product.name = "GA106 High Definition Audio Controller"
		device.subsystem = "sound"
		sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card0"
		device.vendor.id = "0x10de"
		device.vendor.name = "NVIDIA Corporation"
		media.class = "Audio/Device"
		factory.id = "15"
		client.id = "41"
		object.id = "42"
		object.serial = "42"
		object.path = "alsa:acp:NVidia"
		alsa.card = "0"
		alsa.card_name = "HDA NVidia"
		alsa.long_card_name = "HDA NVidia at 0x84080000 irq 17"
		alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel"
		alsa.mixer_name = "Nvidia GPU 9f HDMI/DP"
		alsa.components = "HDA:10de009f,146212fb,00100100"
		alsa.id = "NVidia"
		device.string = "0"
	Profiles:
		off: Off (sinks: 0, sources: 0, priority: 0, available: yes)
		output:hdmi-stereo: Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority: 5900, available: no)
		output:hdmi-stereo-extra1: Digital Stereo (HDMI 2) Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority: 5700, available: no)
		output:hdmi-stereo-extra2: Digital Stereo (HDMI 3) Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority: 5700, available: no)
		output:hdmi-stereo-extra3: Digital Stereo (HDMI 4) Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority: 5700, available: no)
		output:hdmi-surround: Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI) Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority: 800, available: no)
		output:hdmi-surround71: Digital Surround 7.1 (HDMI) Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority: 800, available: no)
		output:hdmi-surround-extra1: Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI 2) Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority: 600, available: no)
		output:hdmi-surround71-extra1: Digital Surround 7.1 (HDMI 2) Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority: 600, available: no)
		output:hdmi-surround-extra2: Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI 3) Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority: 600, available: no)
		output:hdmi-surround71-extra2: Digital Surround 7.1 (HDMI 3) Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority: 600, available: no)
		output:hdmi-surround-extra3: Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI 4) Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority: 600, available: no)
		output:hdmi-surround71-extra3: Digital Surround 7.1 (HDMI 4) Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority: 600, available: no)
		pro-audio: Pro Audio (sinks: 4, sources: 0, priority: 1, available: yes)
	Active Profile: off
	Ports:
		hdmi-output-0: HDMI / DisplayPort (type: HDMI, priority: 5900, latency offset: 0 usec, availability group: Legacy 1, not available)
			Properties:
				port.type = "hdmi"
				port.availability-group = "Legacy 1"
				device.icon_name = "video-display"
				card.profile.port = "0"
			Part of profile(s): output:hdmi-stereo, output:hdmi-surround, output:hdmi-surround71
		hdmi-output-1: HDMI / DisplayPort 2 (type: HDMI, priority: 5800, latency offset: 0 usec, availability group: Legacy 2, not available)
			Properties:
				port.type = "hdmi"
				port.availability-group = "Legacy 2"
				device.icon_name = "video-display"
				card.profile.port = "1"
			Part of profile(s): output:hdmi-stereo-extra1, output:hdmi-surround-extra1, output:hdmi-surround71-extra1
		hdmi-output-2: HDMI / DisplayPort 3 (type: HDMI, priority: 5700, latency offset: 0 usec, availability group: Legacy 3, not available)
			Properties:
				port.type = "hdmi"
				port.availability-group = "Legacy 3"
				device.icon_name = "video-display"
				card.profile.port = "2"
			Part of profile(s): output:hdmi-stereo-extra2, output:hdmi-surround-extra2, output:hdmi-surround71-extra2
		hdmi-output-3: HDMI / DisplayPort 4 (type: HDMI, priority: 5600, latency offset: 0 usec, availability group: Legacy 4, not available)
			Properties:
				port.type = "hdmi"
				port.availability-group = "Legacy 4"
				device.icon_name = "video-display"
				card.profile.port = "3"
			Part of profile(s): output:hdmi-stereo-extra3, output:hdmi-surround-extra3, output:hdmi-surround71-extra3

Card #43
	Name: alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1f.3-platform-skl_hda_dsp_generic
	Driver: alsa
	Owner Module: n/a
	Properties:
		api.acp.auto-port = "false"
		api.alsa.card = "1"
		api.alsa.card.longname = "Micro_StarInternationalCo.Ltd.-GE66Raider11UE-REV1.0-MS_1543"
		api.alsa.card.name = "sof-hda-dsp"
		api.alsa.path = "hw:1"
		api.alsa.use-acp = "true"
		api.dbus.ReserveDevice1 = "Audio1"
		api.dbus.ReserveDevice1.Priority = "-20"
		device.api = "alsa"
		device.bus = "pci"
		device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1f.3-platform-skl_hda_dsp_generic"
		device.description = "Tiger Lake-H HD Audio Controller"
		device.enum.api = "udev"
		device.icon_name = "audio-card-analog-pci"
		device.name = "alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1f.3-platform-skl_hda_dsp_generic"
		device.nick = "sof-hda-dsp"
		device.plugged.usec = "5399240"
		device.product.id = "0x43c8"
		device.product.name = "Tiger Lake-H HD Audio Controller"
		device.subsystem = "sound"
		sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/skl_hda_dsp_generic/sound/card1"
		device.vendor.id = "0x8086"
		device.vendor.name = "Intel Corporation"
		media.class = "Audio/Device"
		factory.id = "15"
		client.id = "41"
		object.id = "43"
		object.serial = "43"
		object.path = "alsa:acp:sofhdadsp"
		alsa.card = "1"
		alsa.card_name = "sof-hda-dsp"
		alsa.long_card_name = "Micro_StarInternationalCo.Ltd.-GE66Raider11UE-REV1.0-MS_1543"
		alsa.driver_name = "snd_soc_skl_hda_dsp"
		alsa.mixer_name = "Realtek ALC298"
		alsa.components = "HDA:80862812,80860101,00100000 HDA:10ec0298,146212fb,00100103 cfg-dmics:2"
		alsa.id = "sofhdadsp"
		device.string = "1"
	Profiles:
		off: Off (sinks: 0, sources: 0, priority: 0, available: yes)
		HiFi (HDMI1, HDMI2, HDMI3, Headphones, Mic1, Mic2): Play HiFi quality Music (HDMI1, HDMI2, HDMI3, Headphones, Mic1, Mic2) (sinks: 4, sources: 2, priority: 10300, available: yes)
		HiFi (HDMI1, HDMI2, HDMI3, Mic1, Mic2, Speaker): Play HiFi quality Music (HDMI1, HDMI2, HDMI3, Mic1, Mic2, Speaker) (sinks: 4, sources: 2, priority: 10200, available: yes)
		pro-audio: Pro Audio (sinks: 5, sources: 3, priority: 1, available: yes)
	Active Profile: HiFi (HDMI1, HDMI2, HDMI3, Headphones, Mic1, Mic2)
	Ports:
		[Out] HDMI3: HDMI / DisplayPort 3 Output (type: HDMI, priority: 700, latency offset: 0 usec, availability group: HDMI/DP,pcm=5, not available)
			Properties:
				port.type = "hdmi"
				port.availability-group = "HDMI/DP,pcm=5"
				device.icon_name = "video-display"
				card.profile.port = "0"
			Part of profile(s): HiFi (HDMI1, HDMI2, HDMI3, Mic1, Mic2, Speaker), HiFi (HDMI1, HDMI2, HDMI3, Headphones, Mic1, Mic2)
		[Out] HDMI2: HDMI / DisplayPort 2 Output (type: HDMI, priority: 600, latency offset: 0 usec, availability group: HDMI/DP,pcm=4, not available)
			Properties:
				port.type = "hdmi"
				port.availability-group = "HDMI/DP,pcm=4"
				device.icon_name = "video-display"
				card.profile.port = "1"
			Part of profile(s): HiFi (HDMI1, HDMI2, HDMI3, Mic1, Mic2, Speaker), HiFi (HDMI1, HDMI2, HDMI3, Headphones, Mic1, Mic2)
		[Out] HDMI1: HDMI / DisplayPort 1 Output (type: HDMI, priority: 500, latency offset: 0 usec, availability group: HDMI/DP,pcm=3, available)
			Properties:
				port.type = "hdmi"
				port.availability-group = "HDMI/DP,pcm=3"
				device.icon_name = "video-display"
				card.profile.port = "2"
				device.product.name = "LS32A70"
			Part of profile(s): HiFi (HDMI1, HDMI2, HDMI3, Mic1, Mic2, Speaker), HiFi (HDMI1, HDMI2, HDMI3, Headphones, Mic1, Mic2)
		[Out] Speaker: Speaker (type: Speaker, priority: 100, latency offset: 0 usec, availability unknown)
			Properties:
				port.type = "speaker"
				device.icon_name = "audio-speakers"
				card.profile.port = "3"
			Part of profile(s): HiFi (HDMI1, HDMI2, HDMI3, Mic1, Mic2, Speaker)
		[In] Mic2: Headphones Stereo Microphone (type: Mic, priority: 200, latency offset: 0 usec, availability group: Mic, available)
			Properties:
				port.type = "mic"
				port.availability-group = "Mic"
				device.icon_name = "audio-input-microphone"
				card.profile.port = "4"
			Part of profile(s): HiFi (HDMI1, HDMI2, HDMI3, Mic1, Mic2, Speaker), HiFi (HDMI1, HDMI2, HDMI3, Headphones, Mic1, Mic2)
		[In] Mic1: Digital Microphone (type: Mic, priority: 100, latency offset: 0 usec, availability unknown)
			Properties:
				port.type = "mic"
				device.icon_name = "audio-input-microphone"
				card.profile.port = "5"
			Part of profile(s): HiFi (HDMI1, HDMI2, HDMI3, Mic1, Mic2, Speaker), HiFi (HDMI1, HDMI2, HDMI3, Headphones, Mic1, Mic2)
		[Out] Headphones: Headphones (type: Headphones, priority: 200, latency offset: 0 usec, availability group: Headphone, available)
			Properties:
				port.type = "headphones"
				port.availability-group = "Headphone"
				device.icon_name = "audio-headphones"
				card.profile.port = "6"
			Part of profile(s): HiFi (HDMI1, HDMI2, HDMI3, Headphones, Mic1, Mic2)

My Sound experience are very limited in Linux,
but i would take a look in alsamixer around your onboard sound, the controls in alsa are much better as in pavucontrol.

Have you tried muting and unmuting or restarting pipewire?

So I got the onboard sound kind of working.

In alsamixer, I had to switch to the sof-hda-dsp soundcard, and then increase the levels on PGA1.0 and PGA30.0. Seems odd that these would be zero by default if thats what controls output to the onboard speakers and the headphones.
I turned the rest of them up all the way as well to address future issues.

Seems like a regression to me having to use alsa-mixer as the last 10 years of pulse have not forced users to tinker with the underlying alsa subsystem.

However, due to some other tinkering, the sound card now appears as “Stereo-output” in the sound settings. This is rather generic, but perhaps because I don’t have any of my other sound devices hooked up at the moment.

The big remaining issue is that the microphone is unusable because the mic input also gets monitor input from the main sound system which causes a feedback loop.

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Example, if I make a (voip) call, the callee can hear my voice over the mike, but also anything I’m playing on my computer, and their own voice gets fed back to them as well. In the image above, I’m attempting to set the mic in a phone application. The only available input is the Tiger Lake monitor, and you can see the feedback in the mic while testing the output. I’ve even gone into qjackctl and modified the input graph to take the tiger lake input, which isn’t available to select in the system sound settings, but there is not change to the feedback.

Just a fricken broken and unusable sound system. I tried getting rid of pipewire, but my first attempts were stymied because I couldn’t install manjaro-pulse because after asking about additional dependencies, pamac said it couldn’t find the target. I’ll keep working on getting rid of pipewire until its robust enough to control the sound system on its own. I accept complications in setting up advanced sound servers like jack, but for a desktop user to have to muck about in alsa config files to get pipewire working, well that just sets the Linux desktop back.

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alsa-info data shows ALSA mixer controls for onboard audio device in text format

!!-------Mixer controls for card sofhdadsp

Card sysdefault:1 'sofhdadsp'/'Micro_StarInternationalCo.Ltd.-GE66Raider11UE-REV1.0-MS_1543'
  Mixer name	: 'Realtek ALC298'
  Components	: 'HDA:80862812,80860101,00100000 HDA:10ec0298,146212fb,00100103 cfg-dmics:2'
  Controls      : 50
  Simple ctrls  : 20
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 127
  Mono: Playback 127 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 127
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 126 [99%] [-0.50dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 124 [98%] [-1.50dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Speaker',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 127
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 91 [72%] [-18.00dB] [off]
  Front Right: Playback 91 [72%] [-18.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 8 [26%] [-22.50dB] [off]
  Front Right: Playback 8 [26%] [-22.50dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost',0
  Capabilities: volume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: 0 - 3
  Front Left: 3 [100%] [30.00dB]
  Front Right: 3 [100%] [30.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',1
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',2
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 127
  Front Left: Capture 127 [100%] [30.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 127 [100%] [30.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Auto-Mute Mode',0
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: 'Disabled' 'Enabled'
  Item0: 'Disabled'
Simple mixer control 'Dmic0',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 70
  Front Left: Capture 70 [100%] [20.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 70 [100%] [20.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Dmic1 2nd',0
  Capabilities: cvolume
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 70
  Front Left: Capture 50 [71%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: Capture 50 [71%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Loopback Mixing',0
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: 'Disabled' 'Enabled'
  Item0: 'Disabled'
Simple mixer control 'PGA1.0 1 Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 32
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Simple mixer control 'PGA2.0 2 Master',0
  Capabilities: cvolume
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 80
  Front Left: Capture 50 [62%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: Capture 50 [62%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'PGA30.0 30',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 32
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Simple mixer control 'PGA31.0 31',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 32
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Simple mixer control 'PGA7.0 7 Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 32
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Simple mixer control 'PGA8.0 8 Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 32
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Simple mixer control 'PGA9.0 9 Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 32
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]

To avoid feedback loops in ALSA, mute the microphone monitor playback

amixer -c1 sset 'Mic' mute

If the audio device is using Analog Stereo Duplex (output + input) profile in PulseAudio (or PipeWire), the audio server creates 2 sources for audio capture

  1. Monitor of Audio playback - analog-stereo-output.monitor
  2. Microphone - analog-stereo-input

But If the audio card is using Profile: Analog Stereo Output (output only)

pactl list sources short

would show the Monitor source only, not the Microphone

If a VOIP client is configured to use the monitor source, callers will hear any audio playback streams including their own voice echoing back but not microphone audio

If manjaro-pulse metapackage is not working for you, try this:

pamac remove manjaro-pipewire; pamac install pulseaudio pulseaudio-bluetooth

So this mostly worked, at least it headed me in the correct direction to where I have something that is at least usable.
After setting ‘Mic’ to mute in amixer, I also played around with some of the other settings in alsamixer, eg Mic Boost and after testing with a guinea pig on the other side of the line I was able to remove the feedback and most of the system sound carry through. Some of the remaining bleed through might be due to my lower quality travel headset.

Thanks.

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