This problem happened before I upgraded to rawhide, Ideas what cause it? There is no bass what so ever, I am unsure if it is to do with my sound chip, my motherboard is G1 Sniper M3, the lack of bass just annoys me slightly lol.
Thanks in advance
99.9% sure it's not a software problem. Probably an electrical problem, like bleeding to ground somewhere maybe?
I do think its a software problem but something that I haven't configured correctly, but unsure what :S I don't believe its an electrical problem
I don't see what it could be. Sound either works or it doesn't in linux. On laptops with a built-in subwoofer, that is often considered and extra output that sometimes has to be activated separately, but on desktops, that is not an issue.
You're running XFCE right? Fedora defaults to Pulse over ALSA, so you'll need to install pavucontrol to have detailed volume settings, that should let you see what is exactly being used as a sound device and output. To have volume as an applet, install pnmixer, that puts it right into the notification bar for direct access.
The only thing that's changed recently is that if you have an AMD GPU and are running OSS drivers, the system will probably default to the GPU's HDMI audio instead of the motherboard audio, but that can be changed in the configuration tab of pavucontrol. I don't however see how the HDMI audio could make it to your mobo audio output, so I don't think that's the issue.
Less bass and no stereo usually points to the jack making a bad contact, or the speakers being out of phase. When your left and right speakers are out of phase, they will cancel each-others bass. The cancellation is less pronounced on higher frequencies, so the audio sounds dull and bassless. Lack of bass mostly points to that. Did you by any chance reverse the leads of one speaker?
Haven't touched my speakers but they are 2.1, it sounds as if the sub is not producing bass, but its fine through my phone jack, it was also fine when I used to be on windows, bass worked but I had the creative sound driver. I have OSS ATM, I want to switch due to games not working well, metro won't launch etc.
And yes I use xfce, I checked the HDMI settings and default is set to rear audio jack... Hmm puzzling
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Just tried Korora and it works fine does audio, so something to do with the settings in fedora
Okay managed to fix it, strange it seemed to fix its self :S I installed pnmixer and just checked it, seems fine now, Thanks for the help though :)
Yeah, in Fedora, you only get basic audio GUI support in the XFCE edition. It's a minimal distro, it's under 700 MB, that's the whole point of the XFCE edition basically. But with pavucontrol and pnmixer, the audio is much more GUI controllable. It doesn't change anything about the audio support or subsystems though, so whatever the problem was, it's hard to say what it was exactly. What I did notice sometimes is that when I used auto-detect functions of the audio routing, that it sometimes failed. That is hardware dependent, I've only had it on my Asus motherboards, and in fact, since Fedora 20, there is still an issue with the audio routing on my Asus laptop, that has two audio outputs, one of which is attenuated for some reason, but I just use the other output, I've only stumbled upon that by accident. It's possibly the same phenomenon you were having, and probably has to do with the kernel having changed a few things. I thought on my laptop it was because the short-out pin that detects what output is being used, was probably oxidized because I never use that output jack, and immediately switched to the other one that I do normally use, but I'll have to look into that. It might be that your mobo has different outputs and that you had a similar routing issue. Thing with consumer mobo manufacturers like Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, etc... is, that if you contact them to signal that their hardware may not be 100% open standards compliant, they just tell you to use Windows or go fuck yourself, and Fedora focuses primarily on the business side of things, so if it's not a kernel issue, they might only roll out a patch after the Arch boys have come up with a solution, because the Arch community is incredible at solving this kind of stuff. So wait a few weeks until Arch is at the same implementation point of Fedora, and magically a patch will be issued. It's just how it goes with bleeding edge distro communities, they all have a different focus, but there is a huge amount of cross-breeding between them, which pushes their capabilities of keeping up with kernel changes and implementing the latest and greatest ever further, and ever faster.
I've also seen that there are some remaining issues with Pragha, like when I launch an audio file from Thunar in Pragha, it will not automatically start playback. I didn't install Audacious on the system I saw that on because the Audacious applet didn't seem to work anymore for some reason, probably because it was ported to Wayland and they cut the gtk binding on notifications or something in the Fedora version, and I saw that it was solved a couple of days ago with a new Audacious update, but I haven't installed Audacious yet on that machine. To be honest, I don't care too much about such details. I hardly ever use a PC to listen to music, and I get bored by games pretty rapidly, so it's mainly just for downloaded podcasts of seminars or similar educative purposes.
I dont really play a lot of games these days but I do watch a lot of content, And not having my sub working really annoys me, but its fixed now :) just gotta solve the GPU issues dam you AMD! no RPM!