The sound was working fine on my Dell Inspiron laptop (speakers or headphones). I haven’t made any changes except agreeing to the routine Manjaro updates, but there is now no sound.
I am very non-techie, but I notice in other posts the output of inxi is requested, so here is mine:
> [ray@ray-dell ~]$ inxi -Fazy
> System:
> Kernel: 5.10.84-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
> parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64
> root=UUID=9c7ea2e0-9118-4a42-98d6-74ea85c32f7e rw quiet apparmor=1
> security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
> Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.29 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.16.1
> vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
> Machine:
> Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Inspiron 3505 v: 1.4.7
> serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 v: 1.4.7
> serial: <superuser required>
> Mobo: Dell model: 0NMTCX v: A00 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Dell
> v: 1.4.7 date: 05/31/2021
> Battery:
> ID-1: BAT1 charge: 38.9 Wh (100.0%) condition: 38.9/42.0 Wh (92.6%)
> volts: 12.4 min: 11.4 model: Simplo 0x32,0x38,0x33,0x35,0x0B,0x0A,0x000F
> type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full
> CPU:
> Info: model: AMD Ryzen 7 3700U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx bits: 64
> type: MT MCP arch: Zen/Zen+ note: check family: 0x17 (23)
> model-id: 0x18 (24) stepping: 1 microcode: 0x8108109
> Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache:
> L1: 384 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x64 KiB L2: 2 MiB desc: 4x512 KiB L3: 4 MiB
> desc: 1x4 MiB
> Speed (MHz): avg: 1313 high: 1932 min/max: 1400/2300 boost: enabled
> scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 1258 2: 1224
> 3: 1223 4: 1223 5: 1223 6: 1223 7: 1932 8: 1198 bogomips: 36751
> Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
> Vulnerabilities:
> Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
> Type: l1tf status: Not affected
> Type: mds status: Not affected
> Type: meltdown status: Not affected
> 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 AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP:
> disabled, RSB filling
> Type: srbds status: Not affected
> Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
> Graphics:
> Device-1: AMD Picasso vendor: Dell driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 04:00.0
> chip-ID: 1002:15d8 class-ID: 0300
> Device-2: Microdia Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo
> bus-ID: 1-4:3 chip-ID: 0c45:671e class-ID: 0e02
> Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.21.1.2 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.16.1 driver:
> loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa
> display-ID: :0.0 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 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142 size: 344x193mm (13.5x7.6")
> diag: 394mm (15.5")
> Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
> Audio:
> Device-1: AMD Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Dell
> driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 04:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:15de
> class-ID: 0403
> Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor vendor: Dell
> driver: N/A alternate: snd_pci_acp3x, snd_rn_pci_acp3x bus-ID: 04:00.5
> chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480
> Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel
> v: kernel bus-ID: 04:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
> Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.84-1-MANJARO running: yes
> Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
> Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
> Network:
> Device-1: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Dell
> driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8136
> class-ID: 0200
> IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
> Device-2: Realtek RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
> driver: rtw_8821ce v: N/A modules: rtw88_8821ce port: 2000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
> chip-ID: 10ec:c821 class-ID: 0280
> IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
> Bluetooth:
> Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
> bus-ID: 3-2.4:3 chip-ID: 0bda:c829 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
> Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
> rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
> Drives:
> Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 73.76 GiB (15.5%)
> SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
> ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: PM991a NVMe 512GB
> size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
> lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 26300039 temp: 25.9 C scheme: GPT
> Partition:
> ID-1: / raw-size: 391.04 GiB size: 383.83 GiB (98.16%)
> used: 73.67 GiB (19.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p7 maj-min: 259:7
> ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 250 MiB size: 246 MiB (98.40%)
> used: 87.3 MiB (35.5%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
> Swap:
> Alert: No swap data was found.
> Sensors:
> System Temperatures: cpu: 68.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 68.0 C
> Fan Speeds (RPM): fan-1: 2500
> Info:
> Processes: 231 Uptime: 5h 36m wakeups: 1 Memory: 5.75 GiB
> used: 1.85 GiB (32.2%) Init: systemd v: 249 tool: systemctl Compilers:
> gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: pacman: 1263 lib: 349 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.12
> running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.11
Would appreciate any help. Thanks.