Update and no audio devices found

A couple of days ago I ran an update and after reboot no audio devices can be found. I have tried both linux-cacule kernel and the linux-lts kernel. I have rolled back and tried to update for the past few days. I am not sure what to do next.

System:
Kernel: 5.15.3-2-cacule x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-cacule
root=UUID=00b33177-335b-466d-8a5b-e5bad5669f19 rw rootflags=subvol=@
quiet splash rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0
systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1 loglevel=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.23.5 tk: Qt 5.15.2 info: latte-dock wm: kwin_x11
vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Micro-Star product: GL65 9SE v: REV:1.0
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Micro-Star model: MS-16U5 v: REV:1.0 serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: E16U5IMS.101 date: 07/02/2019
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 22.6 Wh (58.4%) condition: 38.7/51.6 Wh (75.1%)
volts: 11.1 min: 10.9 model: MSI BIF0_9 type: Li-ion serial: N/A
status: N/A
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i7-9750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Coffee Lake
family: 6 model-id: 0x9E (158) stepping: 0xA (10) microcode: 0xEA
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB desc: 6x256 KiB
L3: 12 MiB desc: 1x12 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2600 high: 2602 min/max: 800/4500 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: performance cores: 1: 2600 2: 2600 3: 2601
4: 2601 5: 2601 6: 2600 7: 2601 8: 2601 9: 2602 10: 2601 11: 2601
12: 2601 bogomips: 62469
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
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
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 mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3e9b class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA TU106M [GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: nvidia v: 495.46 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:1f11 class-ID: 0300
Device-3: Chicony HD Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-13:5
chip-ID: 04f2:b695 class-ID: 0e02
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.21.1.3 compositor: kwin_x11 driver:
loaded: intel,nvidia unloaded: modesetting,nouveau alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa
display-ID: :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: eDP1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 120 dpi: 143
size: 340x190mm (13.4x7.5") diag: 389mm (15.3")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2)
v: 4.6 Mesa 21.3.4 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
chip-ID: 8086:a348 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.3-2-cacule running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.43 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:a370 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Bluetooth 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak (JfP) type: USB
driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-14:6 chip-ID: 8087:0aaa class-ID: e001
Report: bt-adapter ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.38 TiB used: 537.63 GiB (38.2%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital
model: PC SN520 SDAPNUW-512G-1032 size: 476.94 GiB block-size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 15.8 Gb/s lanes: 2 type: SSD
serial: <filter> rev: 20140000 temp: 51.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital
model: WD10JPVX-60JC3T0 size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter>
rev: 1A01 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 73.24 GiB size: 73.24 GiB (100.00%)
used: 43.41 GiB (59.3%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 256 MiB size: 252 MiB (98.46%)
used: 546 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
ID-3: /home raw-size: 73.24 GiB size: 73.24 GiB (100.00%)
used: 43.41 GiB (59.3%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 73.24 GiB size: 73.24 GiB (100.00%)
used: 43.41 GiB (59.3%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 73.24 GiB size: 73.24 GiB (100.00%)
used: 43.41 GiB (59.3%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 15.47 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 50.0 C pch: 61.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 411 Uptime: 2m wakeups: 1 Memory: 15.47 GiB
used: 2.4 GiB (15.5%) Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl Compilers:
gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 13.0.0 Packages: pacman: 1814 lib: 551 Shell: fish
v: 3.3.1 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.12
Garuda:
System install date:     2022-01-25
Last full system update: 2022-01-26
Is partially upgraded:   No
Using TLP:               No
Windows dual boot:       No/Undetected

:thinking:

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That was just after my last try at an update.

Edit again. That install date may have changed as i did try the command

update remote fix

edit: I rolled back a few days, audio is working.

garuda-inxi
find-the-command: "garuda-inxi" is not found locally, searching in repositories...

find-the-command: command not found: garuda-inxi
inxi -Faz
System:
Kernel: 5.15.3-2-cacule x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-cacule
root=UUID=00b33177-335b-466d-8a5b-e5bad5669f19 rw rootflags=subvol=@
quiet splash rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0
systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1 loglevel=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.23.5 tk: Qt 5.15.2 info: latte-dock wm: kwin_x11
vt: 2 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Micro-Star product: GL65 9SE v: REV:1.0
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Micro-Star model: MS-16U5 v: REV:1.0 serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: E16U5IMS.101 date: 07/02/2019
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 22.8 Wh (58.6%) condition: 38.9/51.6 Wh (75.5%)
volts: 11.1 min: 10.9 model: MSI BIF0_9 type: Li-ion serial: N/A
status: N/A
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i7-9750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Coffee Lake
family: 6 model-id: 0x9E (158) stepping: 0xA (10) microcode: 0xEA
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB desc: 6x256 KiB
L3: 12 MiB desc: 1x12 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2551 high: 2600 min/max: 800/4500 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: performance cores: 1: 2600 2: 2600 3: 2407
4: 2572 5: 2600 6: 2370 7: 2550 8: 2600 9: 2539 10: 2598 11: 2600
12: 2578 bogomips: 62469
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
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
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 mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3e9b class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA TU106M [GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: nvidia v: 495.46 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:1f11 class-ID: 0300
Device-3: Chicony HD Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-13:5
chip-ID: 04f2:b695 class-ID: 0e02
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.21.1.3 compositor: kwin_x11 driver:
loaded: intel,nvidia unloaded: modesetting,nouveau alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa
display-ID: :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: eDP1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 120 dpi: 143
size: 340x190mm (13.4x7.5") diag: 389mm (15.3")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2)
v: 4.6 Mesa 21.3.4 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
chip-ID: 8086:a348 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.3-2-cacule running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.43 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:a370 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Bluetooth 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak (JfP) type: USB
driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-14:6 chip-ID: 8087:0aaa class-ID: e001
Report: bt-adapter ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down
bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no software: no
address: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.38 TiB used: 537.75 GiB (38.2%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital
model: PC SN520 SDAPNUW-512G-1032 size: 476.94 GiB block-size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 15.8 Gb/s lanes: 2 type: SSD
serial: <filter> rev: 20140000 temp: 52.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital
model: WD10JPVX-60JC3T0 size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter>
rev: 1A01 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 73.24 GiB size: 73.24 GiB (100.00%)
used: 43.52 GiB (59.4%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 256 MiB size: 252 MiB (98.46%)
used: 546 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
ID-3: /home raw-size: 73.24 GiB size: 73.24 GiB (100.00%)
used: 43.52 GiB (59.4%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 73.24 GiB size: 73.24 GiB (100.00%)
used: 43.52 GiB (59.4%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 73.24 GiB size: 73.24 GiB (100.00%)
used: 43.52 GiB (59.4%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 15.47 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 49.0 C pch: 60.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 403 Uptime: 3m wakeups: 1 Memory: 15.47 GiB
used: 2.36 GiB (15.3%) Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl Compilers:
gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 13.0.0 Packages: pacman: 1799 lib: 547 Shell: fish
v: 3.3.1 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.12

I rolled back again, uninstalled pipe-wire, installed pulse-audio and updated. after a reboot I still have no audio devices listed in the latte dock widgets.

I rolled back again.... This time I used the garuda-assistant to reinstall all packages. Same result after boot .... No audio devices listed in the latte dock widgets (top left corner).

Did you hit then Mute button on your keyboard, perhaps? Your inxi output looks unremarkable.

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The mute button is not pressed. There are no speakers or microphones listed in the latte dock.

Ever since the Jack2 pipewire-jack issues of earlier this week, there's quite a few of us with some serious audio problems.

Unfortunately, I too am experiencing this issue. Not the mute button, @Bro :wink:
Switching to pulse-audio didn't help either.

Current inxi
inxi -Faz
System:
  Kernel: 5.16.2-zen1-1-zen x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
    root=UUID=210d0711-fb6b-4b43-94d8-463f497d6edd rw rootflags=subvol=@
    quiet splash rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0 loglevel=3
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.24.80 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
    Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Dell product: Precision 7820 Tower v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 3 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Dell model: 05WNJ2 v: A02 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Dell
    v: 2.7.2 date: 06/02/2020
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Xeon Silver 4110 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Skylake
    family: 6 model-id: 0x55 (85) stepping: 4 microcode: 0x2006B06
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 8 tpc: 2 threads: 16 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 512 KiB desc: d-8x32 KiB; i-8x32 KiB L2: 8 MiB desc: 8x1024 KiB
    L3: 11 MiB desc: 1x11 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 800 high: 801 min/max: 800/3000 scaling:
    driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 801 4: 800
    5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 9: 800 10: 800 11: 800 12: 800 13: 801
    14: 801 15: 800 16: 800 bogomips: 67200
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  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
  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 mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GP107GL [Quadro P1000] vendor: Dell driver: nvidia
    v: 495.46 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 0000:b3:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:1cb1 class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.org 1.21.1.3 compositor: kwin_x11 driver:
    loaded: nvidia unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa
    resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
  Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    bus-ID: 0000:00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a1f0 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP107GL High Definition Audio vendor: Dell
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 0000:b3:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0fb9
    class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.16.2-zen1-1-zen running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.43 running: no
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM vendor: Dell driver: e1000e v: kernel
    port: N/A bus-ID: 0000:00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15b9 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp0s31f6 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel C600/X79 series SATA RAID Controller driver: ahci v: 3.0
    port: 3000 bus-ID: 0000:00:17.0 chip-ID: 8086:2826 rev: N/A class-ID: 0104
  Hardware-2: Intel Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller
    driver: vmd v: 0.6 port: N/A bus-ID: 0000:16:05.5 chip-ID: 8086:201d
    rev: N/A class-ID: 0104
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 14.54 GiB (3.1%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 500GB
    size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 3B6Q scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 465.46 GiB size: 465.46 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 14.54 GiB (3.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 576 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 465.46 GiB size: 465.46 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 14.54 GiB (3.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
  ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 465.46 GiB size: 465.46 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 14.54 GiB (3.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
  ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 465.46 GiB size: 465.46 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 14.54 GiB (3.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 31.01 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
    dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 32.0 C pch: 31.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia
    temp: 52 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 fan-2: 0 fan-3: 741 gpu: nvidia fan: 37%
Info:
  Processes: 339 Uptime: 1m wakeups: 0 Memory: 31.01 GiB
  used: 2.17 GiB (7.0%) Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl Compilers:
  gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 13.0.0 Packages: pacman: 1202 lib: 305 Shell: fish
  v: 3.3.1 default: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: alacritty inxi: 3.3.12

@waeking and @zoeruda, I've been seeing a spate of posts where even newer systems have needed BIOS updates. Yours are 2019 and 2020, respectively.

And you both have NVIDIA/Intel. Anything currently going on with those combos? I have only Intel.

I'll be back online in a while. Trying to decide whether to install Barebones -23 or dr4gonized -27. Probably Barebones, then build up. Those post--installation setup scripts are sure handy-dandy.
:wink:

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tried another update from my latest good rollback..... Still doesn't work. No audio devices. Are there any journals or dmesg that one would like to see?

I don't know if helps anyone troubleshooting, but I'm new to Garuda (like, today) and performed the KDE install on a Thinkpad X270 this morning. No HDMI sound (device does not show up in pavucontrol), though laptop sound worked. I actually tried the entire install a second time just to be sure. Then, I switched and installed the GNOME version (fresh iso). HDMI sound is working under GNOME (for me).

i found and updated my bios to the latest firmware (2020) on a MSI gl65-9SE and ran update on garuda again. Still no devices are listed. Rolling back....

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This is a hint, I definitely think it's a KDE related issue now as my Xfce installation of Arch with pipewire is not affected. I just can't figure out which package is at fault. Tried ignoring plasma-pa, but no luck there.

Is there a way to see what was changed on which day. I think that my first failed update was on Janurary 23rd or 24th.

EDIT: Tried update this morning.... no change. Still missing audio devices.

I normally check my past updates with something like (I hope there is no typo, I'm not on the system at the moment):

cat /var/log/pacman.log | grep 2021-01-28 | egrep -i 'installed|upgraded|removed'

My log goes as far back as the 25th. I accidentally deleted my logs while trying to delete my cache.

Tried to update again today.... Still no audio devices listed. Rolled back. If I was to reinstall from scratch would I still have this issue? I really don't want to start over. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Depends on your need for audio and the amount of time and patience you have to keep futzing around with it until it works. And I've seen very few things, other than proprietary hardware code, that can't be made to run in Linux. There are exceptions, sure, but they are rare. And just the hardware nomenclature send up a red flag to experienced users, nowadays. Linux has exceptional hardware detection, the best in the industry.

I didn't pay attention, but if yours is an older installation, the experiment might very well be worthwhile. Long story short, if you do and audio is restored, it won't be because you and others tried and failed to find a reasonable solution for your current installation. At this stage of the game, it is most probably some little stupid thing that keeps tripping up troubleshooting the problem.

A new installation might provide the solution. You'll learn from it either way. If it recurs, it might be very instructive determining if the problem originates before/after a complete post-installation update. And also, prior to running the other scripts, i.e. application installation.

But first, protect your data ten ways from sundown, 'cause...
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Tried to update again today. There were 185+ updates needed to be applied. No change.... audio devices still not listed after update. Rolling back again. I think once Garuda brings out another new iso I will try and boot a usb. If there is sound then I will serisously look into doing a new install.