ASUS ROG G512LW - No Speaker Audio & System Freezes/Bricks on Update

In your plasma control bar you see default a icon for sound. (default upper right corner)
What are the settings ? If wrong output → you “listen” …nothing.
example:

On Analog Stereo Duplex → Speakers and mic
I switched between duplex and stereo but same results.

click there on the middle icon (for settings, upper right corner)
and click on “applications” before, open for this (example) browser and use youtube to play a content

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Audio:
Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH cAVS vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_avs,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
chip-ID: 8086:06c8 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA TU106 High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8
link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f9
class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.16.0-zen2-1-zen status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.7 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
sudo dmesg | grep -Ei "snd|hda|sof|audio"
[    0.036506] software IO TLB: area num 16.
[    0.282843] PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering for IO (SWIOTLB)
[    0.282844] software IO TLB: mapped [mem 0x0000000086e0d000-0x000000008ae0d000] (64MB)
[    0.545188] integrity: Loaded X.509 cert 'Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA 2011: 13adbf4309bd82709c8cd54f316ed522988a1bd4'
[    0.545197] integrity: Loaded X.509 cert 'Microsoft Windows Production PCA 2011: a92902398e16c49778cd90f99e4f9ae17c55af53'
[    3.717208] pps_core: Software ver. 5.3.6 - Copyright 2005-2007 Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
[    3.774430] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: enabling device (0004 -> 0006)
[    3.774721] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[    3.774774] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: Disabling MSI
[    3.774782] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: Handle vga_switcheroo audio client
[    4.183111] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card0/input22
[    4.183160] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card0/input23
[    4.183206] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card0/input24
[    4.183258] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=9 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card0/input25
[    4.247947] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops intel_audio_component_bind_ops [i915])
[    4.284019] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC1D0: ALC294: picked fixup  (pin match)
[    4.284450] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC1D0: autoconfig for ALC294: line_outs=1 (0x17/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0) type:speaker
[    4.284453] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC1D0:    speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[    4.284455] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC1D0:    hp_outs=1 (0x21/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[    4.284456] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC1D0:    mono: mono_out=0x0
[    4.284457] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC1D0:    inputs:
[    4.284458] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC1D0:      Internal Mic=0x12
[    4.284459] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC1D0:      Headset Mic=0x19
[    4.735966] input: HDA Intel PCH Headset Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/sound/card1/input28
[    4.735994] input: HDA Intel PCH Headphone as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/sound/card1/input29
[    4.736019] input: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/sound/card1/input30
[    4.736043] input: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/sound/card1/input31
[    4.736072] input: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/sound/card1/input32
wpctl status
PipeWire 'pipewire-0' [1.4.7, jerockx@JL-Laptop, cookie:3843120192]
└─ Clients:
33. kwin_wayland                        [1.4.7, jerockx@JL-Laptop, pid:2986]
34. WirePlumber                         [1.4.7, jerockx@JL-Laptop, pid:3089]
42. WirePlumber [export]                [1.4.7, jerockx@JL-Laptop, pid:3089]
56. pipewire                            [1.4.7, jerockx@JL-Laptop, pid:3229]
57. libcanberra                         [1.4.7, jerockx@JL-Laptop, pid:3148]
58.                                     [1.4.7, jerockx@JL-Laptop, pid:3148]
59. xdg-desktop-portal                  [1.4.7, jerockx@JL-Laptop, pid:2994]
60. plasmashell                         [1.4.7, jerockx@JL-Laptop, pid:3195]
61. libcanberra                         [1.4.7, jerockx@JL-Laptop, pid:3195]
62. FireDragon                          [1.4.7, jerockx@JL-Laptop, pid:3820]
63. FireDragon                          [1.4.7, jerockx@JL-Laptop, pid:3914]
64.                                     [1.4.7, jerockx@JL-Laptop, pid:3195]
65. FireDragon                          [1.4.7, jerockx@JL-Laptop, pid:3988]
67. FireDragon                          [1.4.7, jerockx@JL-Laptop, pid:3460]
69. FireDragon                          [1.4.7, jerockx@JL-Laptop, pid:45845]
70. FireDragon                          [1.4.7, jerockx@JL-Laptop, pid:4445]
71. FireDragon                          [1.4.7, jerockx@JL-Laptop, pid:4546]
75. FireDragon                          [1.4.7, jerockx@JL-Laptop, pid:16349]
78. FireDragon                          [1.4.7, jerockx@JL-Laptop, pid:16568]
87. FireDragon                          [1.4.7, jerockx@JL-Laptop, pid:16346]
88. FireDragon                          [1.4.7, jerockx@JL-Laptop, pid:45954]
99. wpctl                               [1.4.7, jerockx@JL-Laptop, pid:46320]

Audio
├─ Devices:
│      43. TU106 High Definition Audio Controller [alsa]
│      44. Built-in Audio                      [alsa]
│
├─ Sinks:
│  *   51. Built-in Audio Analog Stereo        [vol: 0.90]
│
├─ Sources:
│  *   82. Built-in Audio Analog Stereo        [vol: 1.00]
│
├─ Filters:
│
└─ Streams:
68. FireDragon
84. output_FL       > ALC294 Analog:playback_FL    [active]
90. output_FR       > ALC294 Analog:playback_FR    [active]

Video
├─ Devices:
│
├─ Sinks:
│
├─ Sources:
│
├─ Filters:
│
└─ Streams:

Settings
└─ Default Configured Devices:

i don’t have this metal (alc294)..it’s not easy (for me) to see the issue and find a solution.
Default it should function.
But if you change from analog stereo duplex to analog stereo output and pls don`t change anything on internal microphone (default is right → analog stereo duplex)
= result ?

There are lots of pre-existing threads regarding no sound from the internal speakers on ASUS ROG Strix laptops. Do some digging for more suggestions such as:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxaudio/comments/u0rnmr/no_sound_asus_g15_please_help/

I would also suggest testing the liquorix kernel and perhaps the rt kernel (and others).

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Things didn t go well for me. can i post my garuda-inxi and pacman -Qs nvidia here or should i open a new topic?

Yes, please.
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@gampel
Change from analog stereo duplex to analog stereo output = still no sound

@tbg
Thank you for your reply.

  • Tried all the different forum post suggestions/solutions.
  • Tested the kernels that you recommended and a few more.
  • Tried half a day a lot of other stuff from the internet.

At the moment I still haven’t found a solution for my sound issue coming from the internal speakers of my laptop. For now I will keep troubleshooting a bit more.

Thanks!

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TL:DR

hi

just an idea for testing and pid overwrite.

install alsa-tools

sudo pacman -S alsa-tools

then run

sudo hdajackretask

otherwise i would try if the asus fix from other laptop helps

may install over Rani Alsa stuff .

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Hi Duke187,

Thank you for the advice.

I had tried some of this before but gave it another shot with some additional steps of your post. Unfortunately that didn’t work for me.

My main issue (freezes on update) has been resolved.

About the sound.. I have tried a lot of things. Some changes gave me other issues. I have done another format and will just use a headset or BT speaker for now.
Maybe I will give this another try in the future, hoping that an update will fix it in the meantime.

For now, I’m really happy with my experience using Garuda, even with the workaround I need for sound.

Thanks

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