No sound from laptop speaker

There is no sound from the speaker of my laptop.

sof-firmware and pavucontrol are already install.

[prince@Bot ~]$ inxi -Faz
System:    Kernel: 5.10.53-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64 
           root=UUID=06723026-9c87-4ba4-9846-0ca9430e1931 ro 
           resume=UUID=352b6f20-757d-449a-b953-330361e3dcb0 quiet udev.log_priority=3 atkbd.reset=1 
           Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.22.4 tk: Qt 5.15.2 info: latte-dock wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM 
           Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Sony product: SVE1513CYNB v: C10H55HJ serial: <filter> Chassis: 
           type: 10 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Sony model: VAIO serial: <filter> UEFI-[Legacy]: Insyde v: R0190E5 date: 07/31/2012 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT1 charge: 31.5 Wh (66.3%) condition: 47.5/47.5 Wh (100.0%) volts: 3.6 min: 10.8 
           model: SONY Corp. VGP-BPS22 type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: Discharging 
CPU:       Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i3-2328M bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Sandy Bridge 
           family: 6 model-id: 2A (42) stepping: 7 microcode: 2F cache: L2: 3 MiB 
           flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 17567 
           Speed: 970 MHz min/max: 800/2200 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 970 2: 1161 3: 898 4: 963 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
           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 status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics vendor: Sony 
           driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0116 class-ID: 0300 
           Device-2: Ricoh USB2.0 Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-1.3:4 
           chip-ID: 05ca:18c3 class-ID: 0e02 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: loaded: modesetting 
           alternate: fbdev,intel,vesa display-ID: :0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0") s-diag: 414mm (16.3") 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 3000 (SNB GT2) v: 3.3 Mesa 21.1.5 
           compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Sony 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:1e20 class-ID: 0403 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.53-1-MANJARO running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: sndio v: N/A running: no 
           Sound Server-3: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no 
           Sound Server-4: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
           Sound Server-5: PipeWire v: 0.3.32 running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Foxconn Unex DHXA-225 
           driver: ath9k v: kernel port: 3040 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:0032 class-ID: 0280 
           IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Sony 
           driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 2000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200 
           IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth: Device-1: Foxconn / Hon Hai Bluetooth USB Host Controller type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 
           bus-ID: 1-1.2:3 chip-ID: 0489:e036 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter> 
           Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: see --recommends 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 298.09 GiB used: 72.22 GiB (24.2%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Hitachi model: HTS543232A7A384 size: 298.09 GiB 
           block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5400 
           serial: <filter> rev: A90C scheme: MBR 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 138.82 GiB size: 135.64 GiB (97.71%) used: 72.2 GiB (53.2%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 7.45 GiB used: 27.7 MiB (0.4%) priority: -2 
           dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 55.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 186 Uptime: 26m wakeups: 1 Memory: 3.74 GiB used: 2.04 GiB (54.6%) 
           Init: systemd v: 248 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 12.0.1 Packages: 1283 
           pacman: 1277 lib: 333 flatpak: 6 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.8 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.06

I noticed from your configuration that pulseaudio and pipewire are running both at the same time.
In my config this looks like this:

Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 100 Series/C230 Series Family HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a170 
  class-ID: 0403 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GM204 High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0fbb 
  class-ID: 0403 
  Device-3: Logitech G433 Gaming Headset type: USB 
  driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 1-6.4:12 chip-ID: 046d:0a6d 
  class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter> 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.13.5-1-MANJARO running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no 
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: no 
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.32 running: yes 

Just wanted to point this out, but I can’t tell if this is an issue or not. It’s just different to my system.

so, how I can recognize the issue.

You can start off with basic troubleshooting I guess:

Unmute the audio channel:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture#Unmuting_the_channels
or an older discussion from the arch forum
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=263150
or the pripewire trouble shooting section
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#Troubleshooting

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