Working great for Manjaro with one addition

[PremiumUsername]

I'm only using the audio part so far, but I just wanted to send some gratitude your way. I've tried many guides for enabling audio, all ending with failure. Not only does yours work, it seems to work perfectly as well. The only thing I needed to do to get it to work for Manajaro is commenting out:

load-module module-suspend-on-idle

in the file /etc/pulse/default.pa

I didn't have to compile a new kernel or anything else, just copied your files, made one alteration then changed the output to speaker with pactl set-card-profile 0 Speaker, rebooted and all was working, so thank you!

I'm using the eufi 'bios'. Would this work for the seabios boot as well I wonder?

Sorry, if this isn't really an 'issue', I didn't know where to place this comment (my issue is that I've overjoyed with getting the audio to work after many hours I guess).

[loganmarbut]

Hi! Could you please go through the steps you took? I'm relatively new to Linux and I can't seem to get it to work. I'm currently using an up-to-date version of Manjaro xfce with 'uefi'.

[PremiumUsername]

Hi! Could you please go through the steps you took? I'm relatively new to Linux and I can't seem to get it to work. I'm currently using an up-to-date version of Manjaro xfce with 'uefi'.

I didn't write down the exact steps I'm afraid. But each time I update Manjaro the sound stops working and I have to do the following to reactivate the sound (the c302ca folder below contains the files from devendors repo):

sudo ln -sf /lib/firmware/intel/dsp_fw_release_v969.bin /lib/firmware/intel/dsp_fw_release.bin

sudo cp ~/c302ca/fs/lib/firmware/skl_n88l25_m98357a-tplg.bin /lib/firmware/

sudo cp -r ~/c302ca/fs/usr/share/alsa/ucm2/sklnau8825max /usr/share/alsa/ucm2/
sudo chown -R root /usr/share/alsa/ucm2/sklnau8825max

pactl set-card-profile 0 Speaker

Even that description might be missing a step or two. After the last update I had some trouble getting sound to work again, but those are the steps I think made a difference so I saved them as a reference for future updates.