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jack23

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Registered: 2023-07-29

Posts: 5

Low Volume on Hifi 2.0 audio channels on arch only.

Hello,

I've installed arch in the august of this year and I've had an issue where volume in the Hifi 2.0 audio channels is very low. This affects both my headphones and Speakers. To deal with this I've just been using 7.1 audio channel, and it works mostly fine, but the Witcher 3's cutscenes only have audio in the 2.0 channel, also on the 7.1 channel on my speakers, games with directional audio have very low volume from sound sources at certain angles, specially behind. I've tried to fix this using pipewire, pulse audio, messing with settings in pavu and alsamixer, etc with no success.

The thing is that, this isn't an issue on any other distro i've tried, the other distros ive tried are Ubuntu, NixOS, and Fedora.

Hardware:
CPU: 12700k
Motherboard: MSI MAG z690 tomahawk WIFI
Audio chip: Realtek® ALC4080
GPU: 6700xt
RAM: 32 GB

Software:
DE: gnome-shell 1:45.2-1
Audio API: pipewire 1:1.0.0-2 and wireplumber 0.4.17-1
Kernel: Linux 6.6.8.arch1-1

Last edited by jack23 (2024-01-02 02:01:27)

jack23

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Registered: 2023-07-29

Posts: 5

Re: Low Volume on Hifi 2.0 audio channels on arch only.

I just tried the Vanilla OS live iso, and it had the same issue. I guess it's not only an Arch issue.