Audio 4.1 with pipewire

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
1

Hi, I have a B550M PRO-VDH WIFI mobo, with an Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio audio device, which has 3 jack entries. In the manual, it says that it supports 7.1 audio. I think it does a Jack-retasking for the front entries, which works on Windows with the MSI software.

My question is, if someone knows how to make this work for Linux, or have a reference website where I can look to make my subwoofer to work. I have a 4.1 subwoofer system with 2 plugs, a green and a black (for the sw). I found this https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/3552 but I don’t know if I need to do the hdajackretask stuff for a 4.1 system.

2

I realized that alsatools has hdajackretask, which has a nice GUI to re-task jack entries. So, it was straightforward to override one of them for a subwoofer (lfe) entry. I guess this is basically what the Realtek HD audio manager does in Windows.

The only problem that I encounter is that by applying a jack/pin override, the program always says that my audio device is busy. Trying to stop pipewire services did not work. However, doing a boot override did work ok.

3

This topic was automatically closed 2 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.