I recently had a problem with the audio from the headphone jack in my laptop which is a Asus GL503GE, I found a solution to this problem in this forum, what I did was patch the kernel with the realtek patch given there, I downloaded kernel version 5.4.70 LTS from kernel org, applied the patch, and compiled the kernel with the default config at /proc/config.gz. After adding the kernel to the /boot folder and adding the menu entry in grub I booted up my system with the new patched kernel which indeed solved the 3.5mm jack audio issue, but my nvidia drivers stopped working, I tried reinstalling them from Hardware Configuration but had no luck, the driver I am using right now is video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-450xx-prime.
The output from sudo nvidia-settings is:
ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded
ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system
The output for nvidia-smi is:
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
My system info from inxi -Fazy is:
System:
Kernel: 5.4.70-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux54fix
root=UUID=fbee015a-d962-458e-b4a8-2d14c7f7ba10 rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor resume=UUID=aa732568-b8e2-453d-9712-8f36f62869ce
udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.19.5 tk: Qt 5.15.1 info: latte-dock wm: kwin_x11
dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: Strix 15 GL503GE v: 1.0
serial: <filter>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: GL503GE v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: GL503GE.316 date: 07/19/2019
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 5.4 Wh condition: 50.3/64.4 Wh (78%) volts: 4.8/15.2
model: ASUS A32-K55 type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: Charging
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M275/M280
serial: <filter> charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
status: Discharging
CPU:
Topology: 6-Core model: Intel Core i7-8750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Kaby Lake family: 6 model-id: 9E (158) stepping: A (10) microcode: D6
L2 cache: 9216 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
bogomips: 52815
Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/4100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800
4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 9: 800 10: 800 11: 800 12: 800
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Split huge pages
Type: l1tf
mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel
bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:3e9b
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile] vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: N/A alternate: nouveau bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1c8c
Device-3: IMC Networks USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus ID: 1-7:3 chip ID: 13d3:5666 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,intel,vesa display ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2")
s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 120 dpi: 142 size: 344x193mm (13.5x7.6")
diag: 394mm (15.5")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.1.8
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci bus ID: 00:1f.3
chip ID: 8086:a348
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.70-MANJARO
Network:
Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 9560 [Jefferson Peak] driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
port: 5000 bus ID: 00:14.3 chip ID: 8086:a370
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 03:00.0
chip ID: 10ec:8168
IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 179.86 GiB (15.4%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 model: CUK 250GB size: 232.89 GiB block size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter>
rev: SVN105 scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WDS100T2B0A-00SM50
size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
serial: <filter> rev: 20WD scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw size: 223.79 GiB size: 219.28 GiB (97.98%)
used: 13.64 GiB (6.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-2: /home raw size: 791.62 GiB size: 778.20 GiB (98.30%)
used: 166.22 GiB (21.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.80 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 69.0 C mobo: 27.8 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Info:
Processes: 286 Uptime: 27m Memory: 15.50 GiB used: 2.45 GiB (15.8%)
Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: 1226 pacman: 1214
lib: 340 flatpak: 8 snap: 4 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18 running in: konsole
inxi: 3.1.05
Additionally, if I boot up running a kernel installed directly from System Settings>Kernel, for example kernel 5.4.67-1, nvidia drivers work just fine and I don’t get any Errors with sudo nvidia-settings or nvidia-smi commands, also I can’t open Nvidia X Server app when running the patched kernel, but with 5.4.67-1 I can open it with no issues.
