Feel free to ping the upstream bug tracker. It's likely that they are too busy for other tasks. One thing you can test more would be, though, restoring the mixer element one by one, and check which one breaks the mic. For example, if "alsactl store" output contains the entry like state.sofsoundwire { control.1 { iface MIXER name 'rt711 DAC Surr Playback Volume' value.0 87 value.1 87 comment { ...... Then the element 1 can be restored manually via amixer like: % amixer -Dhw:sofsoundwire cset iface=MIXER,name='rt711 DAC Surr Playback Volume' 87,87 If restoring each element in that way, does it also break mic? If yes, which entry triggers it? That can be investigated.