Onboard soundcard missing after update to pulseaudio 13.99

Hi,

since updating to pulseaudio 13.99 (2020-11-04 Stable Update) my internal soundcard is no longer recognized by pulseaudio.

Running systemctl --user status pulseaudio shows:

pulseaudio[4149]: Failed to find a working profile.
pulseaudio[4149]: Failed to load module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="1" name="pci-0000_0f_00.4" card_name="alsa_card.pci-0000_0f_00.4" namereg_fail=false tsched=yes fixed_latency_range=no ignore_dB=no>

aplay -l shows the card though (ALC892):

aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 10: HDMI 4 [HDMI 4]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 11: HDMI 5 [HDMI 5]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

I have no clue what might be the cause here, but am happy to provide further info if someone tells me what else is needed for troubleshooting.

Thanks in advance.

I’ve had a similar error and managed to get this fixed by downgrading alsa to <1.4, see Sound over HDMI or DP with AMD/Nvidia Hybrid setup.