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ShwStone

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Registered: 2022-07-27

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[SOLVED]ROG Zephyrus G14 audio poor quality and low volume

I'm using archlinux on a ROG Zephyrus G14 and the speaker sound quality is very poor and the volume is very low

The symptoms of the problem look very similar to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=305623. Similarly, the headphones work fine, but the speakers don't. The difference is that I checked dmesg and found nothing unusual. (The driver file is cirrus/cs35l56-b0-dsp1-misc-10431b13-spkid0.wmfw)

I can confirm a few things:

1. It still works on Windows and Manjaro live CD, so it's not a hardware problem. I made sure that Windows fast startup is turned off. The Manjaro boot disk uses the same pipewire and pipewire-pulse as my arch

2. There was no such problem before, the speakers worked fine a long time ago until a certain update.

Please tell me which log files should be uploaded. I installed the latest:

pipewire, pipewire-alsa, pipewire-pulse, wireplumber and their libs

linux-firmware, sof-firmware

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Last edited by ShwStone (2025-06-06 05:00:52)

ShwStone

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Registered: 2022-07-27

Posts: 11

Re: [SOLVED]ROG Zephyrus G14 audio poor quality and low volume

I found the reason.

In alsamixer, beside speaker volume, here is also a "AMP speaker" volume in range -100db to +12db. I set it to 0db and solve my problem.

I wonder what exactly it means and why it default value is such low.

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