XFCE manjaro with no sound at all

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Data from a VM in another distribution with an emulated AC97 audio codec is not much help here

Package sof-firmware is included on all official ISOs since at least January 2022
Manjaro 21.2.2 released
And data in post #3 shows driver sof-audio-pci-intel-apl in use

Package alsa-ucm-conf was created as a separate package from alsa-lib to provide the Use Case Manager profiles and should be included on any Manjaro ISO

Package pulseaudio-alsa provides the ALSA configuration to set PulseAudio as default sound server and create virtual controls. This package is common to all Arch distributions and no additional asound.conf or .asoundrc configuration should be needed

ALSA data confirms that both PulseAudio and PipeWire appear to be running, But PipeWire is only partially installed and only capable of creating conflict problems for PulseAudio
PipeWire is not a required dependency like other DEs so Xfce users can uninstall pipewire and alsa-mixer-paths to use PulseAudio without conflict
But dealing with conflicting software servers will not help resolve hardware or driver issues in ALSA

ALSA data shows only HDMI devices detected for audio playback, no device detected for analog audio to speakers or headphones

amixer: Cannot find the given element from control default

The amixer commands are failing for 2 reasons:

  • no card number specified so amixer commands can only find default PulseAudio controls - usually 2 virtual audio controls for PulseAudio or PipeWire - Master for audio playback and Capture for audio capture
    (amixer would usually show the default controls but they may not be present following changes to asound.conf)

  • even if the card number had been included, the commands would not work because the audio controls for Headphones, Speakers, DAC are not present in previous alsa-info data
    and nothing since is likely to have made those controls appear

Please post response to this command to show all available audio controls for onboard audio device

amixer --card=0

Checking Manufacturer for BIOS updates is a good idea at this time

maybe downgrade the kernel?

I suggest you update to the latest kernel version and hope it has a patch for the audio codec on this system

sudo mhwd-kernel -i linux519

If audio is still not working as expected, get ALSA information again to see if anything has changed

sudo alsa-info.sh --upload
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