Do you have the Realtek ALC1150 sound card? Not sure it's the same issue, but I've spent many, many hours trying to get my built-in sound working. Broke I think on 4.20, although I can't say for sure it's a kernel issue. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1357723 https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/494624 Here are some forum posts I found, marginally related to my issue. It's unbelievably frustrating to yield zero results for the hours I've put into this problem. I don't know if it's BIOS or what, I even booted back into Windows and even then it seems audio-out is broken. Bluetooth audio works for me though, as does audio in via USB microphones. Is this similar? Caleb Allen On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 1:45 PM Andy Pieters wrote:

Hi

Does anyone know why my sound card may be listed as unavailable?

I got a built-in Intel sound device which is seen by pulseaudio.

In the volume control settings (pavucontrol-qt) I can select the configuration Analog Stereo Duplex (unplugged) (unavailable)

I don't know why it shows as unplugged and unavailable.

This is not a new situation but I remember a few years ago I could use this internal sound card just fine.

Thanks

Andy