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kazami1999

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Registered: 2024-07-30

Posts: 1

Weak sound on Lenovo Yoga 7i laptop

Hello,
I have recently installed Arch Linux to my Lenovo Yoga 7i laptop and I am having horrible sound quality. At first, I had no sound at all, but after looking through the wiki and finding recommended instructions for my model here (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Lenovo_Yoga_7i), I installed both sof-firmware and alsa-firmware. Afterwards, I got sound, but it sounds weak and washed out like there's no bass to it. I then made a .conf file in the /etc/modprobe.d/ directory and entered the "options snd-sof-intel-hda-common hda_model=alc287-yoga9-bass-spk-pin" argument and rebooted. Unfortunately, there was no difference in sound quality. I then installed amixer and alsamixer to see if anything was muted, but nothing was. Finally, I installed pipewire to see if I could adjust it to an acceptable level, but nothing made it sound any better. I'm at a lost on what to do next.
I'm new to Linux in general so I'm sorry if I didn't explain something right or submitted the right log files.

Ryan Smith

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Registered: 2024-07-01

Posts: 4

Re: Weak sound on Lenovo Yoga 7i laptop

Seems like Lenovo laptop's woofer always hardly get work properly.......
Hope this link help you, it's for Yoga Slim 7 APU8, but i think it‘s at least informative.
https://github.com/darinpp/yoga-slim-7

Last edited by Ryan Smith (2024-07-30 06:05:19)