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My laptop consists of 3 speakers (1 sub-woofer and 2 front facing speakers) and I just can't get the sub-woofer to work. Alsa mixer does seem to have a bass speaker option, but that just seems to mute all the speakers when disabled. A lot of people also recommended to mess with hdajackretask, but after installing boot override no changes are visible. I didn't make many changes to the default config, only edited these lines in pulse daemon.conf:
remixing-produce-lfe = yes
remixing-consume-lfe = yes
lfe-crossover-freq = 500At first sight it seems like alsa considers the lfe to be the front facing speakers for some reason.
Alsamixer available options:
Output of amixer:
➜ ~ amixer
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 65536
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 26216 [40%] [on]
Front Right: Playback 26216 [40%] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 65536
Front Left: Capture 29274 [45%] [on]
Front Right: Capture 29274 [45%] [on]Pacmd card list:
➜ ~ pacmd list-cards
2 card(s) available.
index: 0
name: <alsa_card.pci-0000_01_00.1>
driver: <module-alsa-card.c>
owner module: 6
properties:
alsa.card = "0"
alsa.card_name = "HDA NVidia"
alsa.long_card_name = "HDA NVidia at 0x94000000 irq 17"
alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel"
device.bus_path = "pci-0000:01:00.1"
sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card0"
device.bus = "pci"
device.vendor.id = "10de"
device.vendor.name = "NVIDIA Corporation"
device.product.id = "10fa"
device.string = "0"
device.description = "HDA NVidia"
module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci"
profiles:
output:hdmi-stereo: Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output (priority 5900, available: no)
output:hdmi-surround: Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI) Output (priority 800, available: no)
output:hdmi-surround71: Digital Surround 7.1 (HDMI) Output (priority 800, available: no)
output:hdmi-stereo-extra1: Digital Stereo (HDMI 2) Output (priority 5700, available: no)
output:hdmi-surround-extra1: Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI 2) Output (priority 600, available: no)
output:hdmi-surround71-extra1: Digital Surround 7.1 (HDMI 2) Output (priority 600, available: no)
output:hdmi-stereo-extra2: Digital Stereo (HDMI 3) Output (priority 5700, available: no)
output:hdmi-surround-extra2: Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI 3) Output (priority 600, available: no)
output:hdmi-surround71-extra2: Digital Surround 7.1 (HDMI 3) Output (priority 600, available: no)
output:hdmi-stereo-extra3: Digital Stereo (HDMI 4) Output (priority 5700, available: no)
output:hdmi-surround-extra3: Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI 4) Output (priority 600, available: no)
output:hdmi-surround71-extra3: Digital Surround 7.1 (HDMI 4) Output (priority 600, available: no)
output:hdmi-stereo-extra4: Digital Stereo (HDMI 5) Output (priority 5700, available: no)
output:hdmi-surround-extra4: Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI 5) Output (priority 600, available: no)
output:hdmi-surround71-extra4: Digital Surround 7.1 (HDMI 5) Output (priority 600, available: no)
off: Off (priority 0, available: unknown)
active profile: <off>
ports:
hdmi-output-0: HDMI / DisplayPort (priority 5900, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
properties:
device.icon_name = "video-display"
hdmi-output-1: HDMI / DisplayPort 2 (priority 5800, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
properties:
device.icon_name = "video-display"
hdmi-output-2: HDMI / DisplayPort 3 (priority 5700, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
properties:
device.icon_name = "video-display"
hdmi-output-3: HDMI / DisplayPort 4 (priority 5600, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
properties:
device.icon_name = "video-display"
hdmi-output-4: HDMI / DisplayPort 5 (priority 5500, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
properties:
device.icon_name = "video-display"
index: 1
name: <alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1f.3-platform-skl_hda_dsp_generic>
driver: <module-alsa-card.c>
owner module: 7
properties:
alsa.card = "1"
alsa.card_name = "sof-hda-dsp"
alsa.long_card_name = "LENOVO-82DS-YogaCreator715IMH05-LNVNB161216"
alsa.driver_name = "snd_soc_skl_hda_dsp"
device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1f.3-platform-skl_hda_dsp_generic"
sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/skl_hda_dsp_generic/sound/card1"
device.bus = "pci"
device.vendor.id = "8086"
device.vendor.name = "Intel Corporation"
device.product.id = "06c8"
device.product.name = "Comet Lake PCH cAVS"
device.string = "1"
device.description = "Comet Lake PCH cAVS"
module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci"
profiles:
HiFi: Play HiFi quality Music (priority 40768, available: unknown)
off: Off (priority 0, available: unknown)
active profile: <HiFi>
sinks:
alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3-platform-skl_hda_dsp_generic.HiFi__hw_sofhdadsp_5__sink/#0: Comet Lake PCH cAVS HDMI / DisplayPort 3 Output
alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3-platform-skl_hda_dsp_generic.HiFi__hw_sofhdadsp_4__sink/#1: Comet Lake PCH cAVS HDMI / DisplayPort 2 Output
alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3-platform-skl_hda_dsp_generic.HiFi__hw_sofhdadsp_3__sink/#2: Comet Lake PCH cAVS HDMI / DisplayPort 1 Output
alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3-platform-skl_hda_dsp_generic.HiFi__hw_sofhdadsp__sink/#3: Comet Lake PCH cAVS Speaker + Headphones
sources:
alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3-platform-skl_hda_dsp_generic.HiFi__hw_sofhdadsp_5__sink.monitor/#0: Monitor of Comet Lake PCH cAVS HDMI / DisplayPort 3 Output
alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3-platform-skl_hda_dsp_generic.HiFi__hw_sofhdadsp_4__sink.monitor/#1: Monitor of Comet Lake PCH cAVS HDMI / DisplayPort 2 Output
alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3-platform-skl_hda_dsp_generic.HiFi__hw_sofhdadsp_3__sink.monitor/#2: Monitor of Comet Lake PCH cAVS HDMI / DisplayPort 1 Output
alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3-platform-skl_hda_dsp_generic.HiFi__hw_sofhdadsp__sink.monitor/#3: Monitor of Comet Lake PCH cAVS Speaker + Headphones
alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1f.3-platform-skl_hda_dsp_generic.HiFi__hw_sofhdadsp__source/#4: Comet Lake PCH cAVS Headphones Stereo Microphone
alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1f.3-platform-skl_hda_dsp_generic.HiFi__hw_sofhdadsp_6__source/#5: Comet Lake PCH cAVS Digital Microphone
ports:
[Out] HDMI3: HDMI / DisplayPort 3 Output (priority 700, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
properties:
[Out] HDMI2: HDMI / DisplayPort 2 Output (priority 600, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
properties:
[Out] HDMI1: HDMI / DisplayPort 1 Output (priority 500, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
properties:
[Out] Speaker: Speaker (priority 100, latency offset 0 usec, available: unknown)
properties:
[Out] Headphones: Headphones (priority 200, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
properties:
[In] Mic2: Headphones Stereo Microphone (priority 200, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
properties:
[In] Mic1: Digital Microphone (priority 100, latency offset 0 usec, available: unknown)
properties:Offline