Sound only works when disabling and re-enabling audio loopback in alsamixer

[daflamingpotato]

Sound only works when disabling and re-enabling audio loopback in alsamixer.
It doesn't matter what settings I use. I have to go into alsa mixer, disable the loopback, and then re-enable it. Then the sound works.

It used to work normally on boot, but I must have messed up something because I was trying to fix a speaker issue.
(The right speaker never works, only the left speaker. I wasn't able to figure out why. I know the speaker works because it worked on Windows.)
(I tested headphone jack and both sides work that way.)

Right now I am just trying to get it back so that at least the left speaker works on boot.



This is my hardware:

HP Pavilion G7-1368dx
HD-Audio Generic
IDT 92HD81B1X5

austin@austin-HP-Pavilion-g7-Notebook-PC:~$ inxi -Axxx
Audio:
Device-1: AMD BeaverCreek HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6500D and 6400G-6600G
series]
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:01.1
chip-ID: 1002:1714 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD FCH Azalia vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.2 chip-ID: 1022:780d class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-58-generic running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes


Thanks!