Hello and thanks in advance!
My original issue is that my sound has a loud ‘pop’ or ‘click’ when trying to play audio after having been idle for a few minutes. Likely a power saving issue.
I’ve tried looking at various posts to solve the issue, but it seems I am even a step further behind than I realized - my primary audio device is not detecting properly. My line-out mini-jack audio is simply listed as “built-in analog stereo” in the sound settings, and in the Manjaro settings hardware its listed as “unknown device name (intel)”
It feels like the issue is somewhere in my “hybrid” config - but I have already gotten myself into trouble messing with these drivers so figured I’d turn to the forum for help
(I have an nvidia rtx 3060 graphics card which I also use the HDMI out for video+audio to go my connected TV)
So when I try to unload the module per this answer it doesn’t recognize it. And there is this very short Arch page, but without my device identified and the… vagueness of gives me pause.
My inxi
System:
Kernel: 6.12.4-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.12-x86_64
root=UUID=32193760-3d01-42b7-bae3-e2efd77f0538 rw quiet splash
resume=UUID=41831ccf-ea2b-4978-b1eb-d518eb84e7be udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.2.4 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.8.0
wm: kwin_x11 vt: 2 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Dell product: XPS 8940 v: N/A
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 3 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Dell model: 0K3CM7 v: A00 serial: <superuser required> part-nu: 09C5
uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: Dell v: 2.0.13 date: 04/01/2021
CPU:
Info: model: 11th Gen Intel Core i7-11700 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Rocket Lake gen: core 11 level: v4 note: check built: 2021+
process: Intel 14nm family: 6 model-id: 0xA7 (167) stepping: 1
microcode: 0x62
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: 4 MiB
desc: 8x512 KiB L3: 16 MiB desc: 1x16 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4800:4900 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
governor: powersave cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800
8: 800 9: 800 10: 800 11: 800 12: 800 13: 800 14: 800 15: 800 16: 800
bogomips: 79888
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 mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: retbleed mitigation: Enhanced IBRS
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 RocketLake-S GT1 [UHD Graphics 750] vendor: Dell driver: i915
v: kernel alternate: xe arch: Xe process: Intel 10nm built: 2020-21 ports:
active: none empty: DP-1, DP-2, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2, HDMI-A-3
bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:4c8a class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GA106 [GeForce RTX 3060 Lite Hash Rate] vendor: Dell
driver: nvidia v: 550.144.03 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm
non-free: 550/565.xx+ status: current (as of 2025-01; EOL~2026-12-xx)
arch: Ampere code: GAxxx process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-2023 pcie:
gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s
bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2504 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.14 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.4
compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting failed: nvidia
alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915,nvidia display-ID: :0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 80 s-size: 609x343mm (23.98x13.50")
s-diag: 699mm (27.52") monitors: <missing: xrandr>
Monitor-1: Unknown-1 size-res: N/A modes: 1920x1080
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: nvidia inactive: wayland,device-2
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 550.144.03
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060/PCIe/SSE2
memory: 11.72 GiB
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.303 layers: 1 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu
name: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 driver: N/A device-ID: 10de:2504
surfaces: xcb,xlib
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi
wl: wayland-info x11: xdpyinfo,xprop
Audio:
Device-1: Intel vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
alternate: snd_soc_avs bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:f1c8 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GA106 High Definition Audio vendor: Dell
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 02:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228e
class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.12.4-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.2.7 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH CNVi WiFi vendor: Rivet Networks Dual Band
Wi-Fi 6 Killer AX1650i 160MHz 2x2 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.3
chip-ID: 8086:06f0 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlo1 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek Killer E2600 GbE vendor: Rivet Networks driver: r8169
v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 04:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:2600 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-14:8 chip-ID: 8087:0026
class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.43 TiB used: 14.32 GiB (1.0%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: SK Hynix model: BC711 NVMe 512GB
size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 41002131 temp: 41.9 C
scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EZEX-75WN4A1
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> fw-rev: 7113 scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: SanDisk model: Cruzer size: 58.45 GiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: USB rev: 2.0 spd: 480 Mb/s
lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 tech: N/A serial: <filter> fw-rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 46.8 GiB size: 45.76 GiB (97.79%) used: 13.7 GiB (29.9%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
ID-3: /home raw-size: 410.32 GiB size: 402.81 GiB (98.17%)
used: 629.3 MiB (0.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 19.53 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 46.0 C pch: 47.0 C mobo: 44.0 C gpu: nvidia
temp: 57 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 997 fan-1: 809 gpu: nvidia fan: 0%
Info:
Memory: total: 16 GiB available: 15.29 GiB used: 4.06 GiB (26.5%)
Processes: 361 Power: uptime: 31m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
suspend, test_resume image: 6.09 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,
power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 256 default: graphical
tool: systemctl
Packages: 1177 pm: pacman pkgs: 1163 libs: 318 tools: pamac pm: flatpak
pkgs: 14 Compilers: N/A Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 default: Bash v: 5.2.37
running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.37
cat /proc/asound/modules
0 snd_hda_intel
1 snd_hda_intel
Moderator edit: Removed screenshot of Manjaro Hardware Settings > Hardware Configuration. Please post the output of mhwd -l && mhwd -li
instead. See Manjaro Hardware Detection Overview - Manjaro