Hello all.
I wish to use 5.1 sound speakers.
How to do it ?
For comparison on Windows it is simple - just go to settings and I chose 5.1 sound speakers.
You will have to write more about your Fedora system, e.g are you on Gnome?
Fedora Silverblue (gnome) 41.
If this helps I can post here
- fpaste --sysinfo --printonly
- and HardwareProbe link.
Take a look at this post PipeWire 5.1 surround outputs all wonky & USB 7.1 headset showing only Stereo
Can you get to any screens like that?
What do you see in gnome-control-centre?
Have you tried pavucontrol?
I)
This is my motherboard:
and it has:
7.1 CH HD Audio (Realtek ALC897 Audio Codec), Nahimic Audio.
I use 3 jacks to connect it to my 5.1 speakers.
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II)
This is my HardwareProbe link:
Why driver for sound card is “snd_hda_intel” - shouldn’t it be some kind of Realtek driver ?
But I found this on internet, so not sure anymore:
“Driver snd_hda_intel is the standard Linux driver for onboard audio devices that comply with Intel HDA audio standard and works for most audio codecs made by Realtek, including the Realtek ALC897 on this motherboard.”
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III)
That are the audio jacks shown by Hardware Probe:
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IV)
That are defaults on my system:
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V)
And that are settings I can switch to:
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VI)
But then system does not show even a single speaker:
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VII)
Please,
anyone, assist anyhow.
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Did you try this?:
Edit: It seems you need to omit sudo when running alsamixer and alsactl on Fedora Linux.
VIII)
I open alsamixer
select on motherboard sound card
and here it is
I see “Front Mic”, “Line out”, “Rear Mic” where I plugged in speakers jacks according to motherboard user manual,
but I see no option ‘Channel’ at the bottom to chose 6 speakers like described in previous link.
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Anything more I can check, do ?
Please.
Sorry, I don’t know. Here is a post about the ALC897 where, at the end, someone said they got it working.
Excerpt from archlinux.org – [solved] No (surround51) sound on Z690/ALC897/Alder Lake:
… Browsing the mixer options in alsamixer (I saw something “like use SPDIF as default” in alsa-info.sh output and decided to check), there is a switch to toggle output channels. Never saw this before, didn’t expect it and (to my bad) never had the thought to check for more controls on the right.
Did you “check for more controls on the right”?
Excellent, very detailed post.
Have you tried pavucontrol?
As the 650 boards are still pretty new, it might be a while. I can’t remember the process to request new features.
I’m pretty sure the ASUS PRIME-X470 Pro board I had let me select 4.0 in GNOME settings on Fedora. I don’t think I had to have the extra speakers plugged in to see the above 2.0 settings.
I think you want the Line Out output device selected.
I’d reset PipeWire settings too (remove any config) and reboot:
rm -Rf ~/'.local/state/wireplumber'
I have no more “switches” , “controls” in alsamixer - only that I showed above on screenshots.
Also I wonder why we talk about pavucontrol which is for pulseaudio,
fedora switched some time ago to pipewire:
> ps -e|grep pulse
3183 ? 00:00:00 pipewire-pulse
> ps -e|grep pipe
2562 ? 00:00:00 pipewire
3183 ? 00:00:00 pipewire-pulse
I also tried with:
cp /usr/share/pipewire/filter-chain/sink-dolby-surround.conf /etc/pipewire/filter-chain/
and then even
cp -r /usr/share/pipewire/ /etc/
and it did not help either.
Removing ~/'.local/state/wireplumber' did not help either.
And I also ask about it on Pipewire:
And topic created here: Realtek ALC897 - no 5.1, 7.1 surround sound · Issue #590 · alsa-project/alsa-ucm-conf · GitHub
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