While I was using windows speakers on my laptop were sounding much better and full. They are HARMAN speakers so they sound pretty good normally. In windows I was comfortable with sound being at 30-40% but now even 100% is too low and lacks quality. What should I do?
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1 - Check pavucontrol, see if you can increase there.
2 - Open a terminal run alsamixer, press F6 select correct card, check levels:
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I tried and got the same result as your screenshot. Could it be the drivers?
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What are the specs of the laptop? Post an inxi.
Sorry, meant full inxi:
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oh, okay thanks.
System:
Kernel: 6.9.9-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.1.1
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.1.2 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM
Distro: EndeavourOS base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 20T60023TX v: ThinkPad E14 Gen 2
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: LENOVO model: 20T60023TX serial: <superuser required>
part-nu: LENOVO_MT_20T6_BU_Think_FM_ThinkPad E14 Gen 2 UEFI: LENOVO
v: R1AET45W (1.21 ) date: 11/30/2022
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 33.9 Wh (99.4%) condition: 34.1/45.0 Wh (75.8%)
volts: 12.6 min: 11.3 model: Celxpert 5B10X026 serial: <filter>
status: not charging
CPU:
Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 4700U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64
type: MCP arch: Zen 2 rev: 1 cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 4 MiB L3: 8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1819 high: 3855 min/max: 1400/2000 boost: enabled cores:
1: 1397 2: 1397 3: 1400 4: 1397 5: 3855 6: 1638 7: 2072 8: 1397
bogomips: 31959
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Renoir [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Mobile Series]
vendor: Lenovo driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-5 pcie: speed: 16 GT/s
lanes: 16 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 04:00.0
chip-ID: 1002:1636 temp: 50.0 C
Device-2: Luxvisions Innotech Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-3:2 chip-ID: 30c9:0014
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.13 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.1
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1920x1080 size: N/A
API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi device: 1 drv: swrast
surfaceless: drv: radeonsi wayland: drv: radeonsi x11: drv: radeonsi
inactive: gbm
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 24.1.3-arch1.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon Graphics (radeonsi
renoir LLVM 18.1.8 DRM 3.57 6.9.9-arch1-1) device-ID: 1002:1636
display-ID: :1.0
API: Vulkan Message: No Vulkan data available.
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 04:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637
Device-2: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor vendor: Lenovo driver: N/A
pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 04:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2
Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 04:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3
API: ALSA v: k6.9.9-arch1-1 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.1 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Lenovo driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
port: 2000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie:
speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2723
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-4:3 chip-ID: 8087:0029
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 5 state: down bt-service: disabled
rfk-block: hardware: no software: no address: N/A
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 22.99 GiB (4.8%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: PC SN530
SDBPMPZ-512G-1001 size: 476.94 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4
serial: <filter> temp: 39.9 C
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 467.39 GiB used: 22.91 GiB (4.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 512 MiB used: 9.7 MiB (1.9%) priority: -2
file: /swapfile
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 68.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 52.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): fan-1: 2400 fan-2: 2400
Info:
Memory: total: 12 GiB note: est. available: 13.38 GiB used: 4.48 GiB (33.5%)
Processes: 251 Power: uptime: 6h 6m wakeups: 3 Init: systemd v: 256
default: graphical
How do you test? What app plays what? Seems it makes difference: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=269171&p=2
Once you will try many things, this is interesting way to make Linux sound similar to Windows, when Windows is using some dedicated drivers:
Also some good stuff in here, can’t test myself:
https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/160vq3b/cant_get_decent_audio_quality_on_laptop_speakers/
I have a Legion5.