Some background. Been using Linux since the late 1990’s. Just built a new machine, using a Gigabyte X870E M/B (9950x cpu, with 9060xt graphics running Fedora 44 KDE) works great. Was packing away the boxes etc from the build and noticed that I still had a set of Logitech X530 speakers that I thought I would connect to give me better sound than the crappy speakers I had connected to my laptop prior to this build.
Reading the M/B manual I found that I need to plug in 2 jacks at the back and 1 jack at the front to get 5.1 audio on this machine & to use the windows utility to configure it . OK! Haven’t used windows for at least 15 years, so I dredge up the knowledge to remap the ports on the M/B to give me 5.1. No problem. Install alsa-tools, start hdajackretask, remap my ports and start testing. Nothing! So scratching my head I started to go through my config to work out what’s going on. Eventually worked out, by chance, that there was no audio because, plugging in the front jack (mic|headphone) mutes or disables the back ports and the output is very very quiet on only the centre speaker & subwoofer (front port).
Question is this :- How to stop the back ports being disabled/muted when connecting the final plug for my 5.1 speakers. I am sure its an overide to the
snd_hda_codec_alc882 hdaudioC2D0: ALC1220: module, but I can not find out what it is!
Does anybody have any pointers!
I have followed numerous posts attempting to resolve this but have been unsuccessful so far.
Thanks