Just installed and loving it so far, the only thing Im struggling with is the audio, tried a bunch of different things from here.
at 100% its still very quiet, at 150% it crackles like crazy and is a touch louder. Any ideas?
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Did you tried PulseAudio Volume control? You can install it with sudo apt install pavucontrol
The Program is for set up Audio Input and Output.
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Appreciate it!
And yes i have tried this, output seems fine.
You say on 100% it is still too quiet and on 150% it crackles. The last one I'm not wondering because it is over 100%.
So, when You have it in the System adjusted to 100%. Is there on Your Sound device maybe a Toggle to adjust the Volume? If yes, You should try it with this.
Just also to add, what are you playing and playing through that's being quiet? As said above, it could be that you have an external control. It's also possible that the program you're using has the volume in that program down, or that the file in question has the audio down in the first place.
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Tried with a few different sites on Firefox (Youtube, Netflix). Its laptop speakers no toggle on them directly other than the typical fn control which does seem to work and adjust the OS volume.
I also verified in the sound settings that Firefox was at 100%, youtube was also at 100%.
Even when low the audio quality between 0-100% sounds pretty bad and almost like its not coming out of the full speaker.
Ok. If you can try to open up alsamixer in the terminal, that may lead to some more information on the issue. It may be that there is a slider in there (for example, the pcm slider) that may be low and is making everything seem quieter by default.
If you can run alsamixer and check those levels (selecting your sound card with F6) and then a screenshot so we can see as well, that would be good.
Tried this as well, also made sure that everything there was unmuted. Tried PCM at max and messing with master, doesn't change the speakers.
Tried a realtek and nvidia one.
Did a websearch using: "Zephyrus 2024 Sound Ubuntu 22.04"
Found this. [ubuntu] low-level sound problem: asus rog zephyrus g16 2024 gu605m suggests need of kernel 6.9. Also seen mention of a bug report. Have a read and see if any help.
Otherwise do a wider "Ubuntu" websearch, as I have done, and see what else that throws up.
I will read into this.
Just for some more info, its like the speakers dont have base and only playing audio out of the front 2 tweeters.
Hey, looking at this fix on that forum wondering would this work with Zorin? Seem to be getting errors when trying to dpkg:
wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/linux-firmware_20240318.git3b128b60-0ubuntu2.1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-firmware_20240318.git3b128b60-0ubuntu2.1_amd64.deb
wget https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/plain/cirrus/cs35l56-b0-dsp1-misc-10431c63-spkid0-amp1.bin
wget https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/plain/cirrus/cs35l56-b0-dsp1-misc-10431c63-spkid0-amp2.bin
wget https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/plain/cirrus/cs35l56-b0-dsp1-misc-10431c63-spkid1-amp1.bin
wget https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/plain/cirrus/cs35l56-b0-dsp1-misc-10431c63-spkid1-amp2.bin
sudo chown root:root cs35l56*
sudo mv cs35l56* /lib/firmware/cirrus
cd /lib/firmware/cirrus
sudo ln -s cs35l56/CS35L56_Rev3.11.16.wmfw.zst cs35l56-b0-dsp1-misc-10431c63.wmfw.zst
sudo ln -s cs35l56/CS35L56_Rev3.11.16.wmfw.zst cs35l56-b0-dsp1-misc-10431c63-spkid0.wmfw.zst
sudo ln -s cs35l56/CS35L56_Rev3.11.16.wmfw.zst cs35l56-b0-dsp1-misc-10431c63-spkid1.wmfw.zst
sudo update-initramfs -u -k all