Sound issue

Can anyone suggest a way to pump my Line In to my Line Out (speakers) in Zorin using Pulse Audio. It works fine in Windows but cant get it to work in Zorin.

What I have done elsewhere on other OS's is to install Audacious, then in Audacious backend settings I choose ALSA (but you must have most ALSA packages installed, except for OSS and JACK and sound is not only great in audacious but also games like Wesnoth.

How do you install the alsa packages I tried but it said had to be manually installed?

I use synaptic package manager which is available in Software. After install, launch it (you will be asked for your login password to give you root privileges), click on the search button and enter ALSA. Make sure to install apulse which is needed to listen to any audio streaming via your browser. Other packages to install include QAS mixer and two other QAS packages. To select a package for installation, right-click the little square to the left of each package and select 'mark for installation', then finally from the main interface, click on 'Apply'.

QAS Mixer sorted it I can now listen with loopback enabled to music through my alexa. :slight_smile:

Is there an Equaliser I can install?

Not tried this:

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/sound-equalizers

tim@tim-H310M-S2H-2-0:~$ make && sudo make install
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

Having trouble compiling

Just done a general search, what happens with:

sudo -E make install

This looks like you ran the command from terminal in your Home directory, not from within the directory of the package Change Directory into it

cd ~/alsaequal

before running make or configure commands.

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Right thats the install done. But when run I get

ALSA lib dlmisc.c:337:(snd_dlobj_cache_get0) Cannot open shared library libasound_module_ctl_equal.so (/lib/x8
6_64-linux-gnu/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_equal.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)

Right put the missing file in the folder it is complaining about and have display but My sound is not changing. Something wrong in the config.

Can you check the source by selecting hw:card? What options are shown?

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Seems correct but EQ makes no difference on Line In

Is your line in from the A4Tech? If so you need to blacklist the firs two pieces of hardware!

No the line in is on the Realtek chip how do I blacklist? I have sound but EQ is not affecting output.

Right after following the tutorial I have blacklisted the the USB audio but there are two entries for hda_intel. What now?

Often the HDMI source from the nvidia card for some bizarre reason gets listed as hda intel. You need to look at device numbers and block the number that does not need to be there.

Well I am left with 2 entries in the module file both snd_intel_hda. How do I blacklist the second one and how do I remove Pulseaudio - from Synaptic?