Public bug reported: using a (2010?) 2.1 surround Creative speaker but the sound seems to fall back to a generic stereo output with only left and right channels (using the green plug).
The subwoofer receives little sound and the left and right speakers receive the bulk of the sound. If I increase the sound level the bass gets almost muted. The Pulse Audio manager doesn't show also any 3rd channel (don't know if it was supposed to), only Left and Right. It seems a problem with mixing, since the sound goes with the same level to the front left and right speakers and the subwoofer only gets a small part of it, and it gets worst as the sound level is increased on the hardware volume control since the speakers handle almost all sound ranges. Tried to create Profiles and Mappings for an "analog-surround-21" and changed the LFE information on the usual config files, but nothing seems to work and I lack more deeply knowledge of how ALSA and Pulse Audio work to figure out how to implement a (up)mixing. I Win7 the speakers worked great, but in the new MoBo and Ryzen CPU Win7 is no longer supported and I want to finally use Linux (X)Ubuntu. This issue seems to have been tackled with previously here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-lib/+bug/1286021 ----- lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS Release: 18.04 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: alsa-base 1.0.25+dfsg-0ubuntu5 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-46.49-generic 4.15.18 Uname: Linux 4.15.0-46-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC1: antonio 13557 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC0: antonio 13557 F.... pulseaudio CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Tue Mar 12 02:06:24 2019 InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-01-10 (61 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725) PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: alsa-driver Symptom: audio Symptom_Card: HD-Audio Generic - HD-Audio Generic Symptom_Type: Volume slider, or mixer problems Title: [HD-Audio Generic - HD-Audio Generic, playback] volume slider problem UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 06/19/2018 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: P1.10 dmi.board.name: B450M Pro4 dmi.board.vendor: ASRock dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrP1.10:bd06/19/2018:svnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:rvnASRock:rnB450MPro4:rvr:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.: dmi.product.family: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.product.name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.product.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.sys.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M. ** Affects: alsa-driver (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1819567 Title: [HD-Audio Generic - HD-Audio Generic, playback] Bad quality 2.1 surround sound To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1819567/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
