Hey someone please help me before I throw this laptop from the window. I just got yoga laptop with a 4 speaker system and it’s a been a full day that I’ve been stuck on a speaker issue. When I boot up the pc and play a video or media all speakers work normally, but if I pause it for a few minutes the bottom main speakers decide to shut off for some reason and won’t come back till I reboot the system leaving me with a tincan sounding laptop. I tested a silent video to test and when it plays I get no issues with the speakers. I’ve been running things in the terminal for 10 hours by this point. When I open the alsamixer the bottom speakers are stuck on 00 and unable to move. I installed HDA JackRetask and it just kills all speakers if I try to force them to work. Please help I’m genuinely fuming
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First up, deep breaths…

Is your Yoga laptop a new model? Sometimes full support can take a little bit of time. For some months after I purchased my Asus laptop, I had no speaker support! A kernel update eventually resolved that though and it has no issue now.
What kernel are you running? Have you tried using the LTS kernel, to rule out a possible regression in the main kernel?
If you don’t have the LTS kernel installed, I’d recommend it as a permanent backup option in any case, so it’s worth trying.
yeah it’s a pro 9 14IRP8 (2025 model year). I think I installed the LTS kernel on startup.
Yeah I really need to calm down
I have a short fuse so any persistent issue drives me nuts
I just restart my laptop every time now but at least I found other stuff to setup so I’m putting it aside till a fix is found
There’s two things you could try doing to monitor the issue.
Get journalctl -f running in a terminal when you startup. That will follow your system log, so it’ll keep updating as log entries are added. When the issue occurs, see if there’s any suspicious error that might be connected with the issue there.
The other thing you could do is launch what ever program the issue is presenting in (eg: VLC, Haruna, etc), from the terminal, so you can also monitor any output it might produce (errors, etc).