My laptop has no audio but connecting headphones work

2026-07-19 06:41 UTC

artix runit There is no /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf or basically, most alsa and pulseaudio config files are missing? When I connect headphones it works fine. /proc/asound/devices returns: 33: : timer and that’s it. The only place I found anything related to the card is if I do sudo lspci -vv | grep -i audio which returns 00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller (rev 11) Kernel driver in use: sof-audio-pci-intel-cnl cat /proc/asound/cards — no soundcards — cat /proc/asound/modules doesn’t even give me output. arecord -l / arecord: device_list:279: no sopacmd list-sourcesundcards found… and that kind of stuff pacmd list-sources 1 source(s) available. index: 0 name: driver: flags: DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY DYNAMIC_LATENCY state: SUSPENDED suspend cause: IDLE priority: 1000 volume: front-left: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB, front-right: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB balance 0.00 base volume: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB volume steps: 65537 muted: no current latency: 0.00 ms max rewind: 0 KiB sample spec: s16le 2ch 44100Hz channel map: front-left,front-right Stereo used by: 0 linked by: 0 configured latency: 0.00 ms; range is 0.50 … 200.00 ms monitor_of: 0 module: 13 properties: device.description = “Monitor of Simultaneous Output” device.class = “monitor” device.icon_name = “audio-input-microphone” and no other pacmd that i found related gives me anything pacmd list-cards / 0 card(s) available. Thanks to anyone that’s able to help.

Replies (7)

@moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 2026-07-19 07:41

What laptop model is it? Can you check if the hardware or specific audio device it uses is supported on linux-hardware.org ? I used to have a laptop that had lacked support for it’s builtin speakers on Linux, but bluetooth would work fine.

Open ##3929271
@okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 2026-07-19 08:00

Are the headphones usb-c? Because those cheat and are actually a whole sound card in a chip

Open ##3929637
@ch00f@lemmy.world 2026-07-19 08:37

Throwing this out there. Could your plug-detection feature of the physical headphone jack be busted?

Open ##3930245
@Mucki@feddit.org 2026-07-19 10:10

Can you name the exact model? It may be necessary to set the vendor specific HDA verbs for the models firmware at the boot process.

Open ##3931674
@Mertn33@lemmy.world 2026-07-19 11:17

Speaker might be disabled in the BIOS settings. Worth a quick check next time you reboot.

Open ##3932930
@melfie@lemmy.zip 2026-07-19 12:27

I’ve had this happen when plugging the laptop into HDMI and not switching back to speakers before unplugging. Plugging back in the HDMI and switching to speakers has fixed it for me in the past. I’ve also had a cold boot fix my audio in the past.

Open ##3934044
@nyan@sh.itjust.works 2026-07-19 20:27

Try blacklisting sof-audio-pci-intel-cnl and see if you can get snd_hda_intel to load instead. The one time I tried the sof- driver, I couldn’t get it to work.

Open ##3941743