The speakers are un-muted. They show properly in the volume mixer both in plasma GUI and alsamixer UI, when adjusting audio through the plasma GUI it shows the test tone is being played through the speakers but nothing is played.
As of yet not luck, I feel like I've scoured everything I cam find online so it might be down to fixing it myself at this rate. It's essentially a runescape on the couch laptop though so we'll see when I get around to that
Fair enough, I may just say fuck it and throw a separate Debian partition on here. My shit is only playing audio via HDMI/do and doesn't even populate the others, I can switch some things around to where it's showing connections, presumably for all of the audio ports on the mobo and front panel, but I'm not getting anything through to them. It displays the volume output just like you've described but nothing comes through.