Greetings.
I have already a month updated Motherboard. Ashrock B650 Steel legend. Tho the new OS installation works flawlessly , but sound is very low compare with my old motherboard’s sound chip.
Is there some issue with pipewire and 4080 chip ?
I tried with Windows 10 installation ( to update the filmware for my new nvme ) and sound on Windows had no issues.
Is exist maybe some fix?
Plus I see my sound show as ‘USB sound’
So …no one have a clue about this specific sound chip?
This device seems to be causing problems in general.
What search engine do you use?
Search engine? And how is possible a new generation sound chip causing problems?
Actually don’t have issue , but on volume’s strength.
With my old Realteck chip had no trouble in volume. With this one , is just lower than must be. On Windows works as should be . Now on Linux, have half strength than normal.
This is very high quality chip. But possibly maybe Pipewire issue? If I install Alsa maybe have better driver?
Because its a new chip and realtek has pretty bad support on Linux on many things.
It might have been to know if you searched the issue beforehand @darias .
Post output from terminal ;
inxi -SMGAx
You probably have the same “Low audio” problem that I had with my MPG X670E Carbon WIFI Motherboard (has the same ALC4080 Codec chip). And the reason was that alsamixer output volume was 40/100 by default.
Link to solution: Low volume on new install
Edit: Maybe I should add that alsamixer’s volume is different than KDE’s device volume setting and because of that, it took awhile to find this 2nd / “hidden” volume setting from system.
And what I did was…
- open console → alsamixer
- press F6 and select “USB audio” → this is the ALC4080 audio
- change the “PCM Front” volume from 40 to 100 if you are using line output, like I am
Audio:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 31 HDMI/DP Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.1
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h/19h/1ah HD Audio
driver: N/A bus-ID: 76:00.6
Device-3: Generic USB Audio driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
type: USB bus-ID: 1-10:4
API: ALSA v: k6.12.3-2-cachyos status: kernel-api
Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.2.7 status: active
This is the output from Audio devices
Thank you.
On KDE had set it to 100% but on alsamixer was only 40%!
Fixed^
Glad that it s solved @darias , props to @dn44
It was also the same on an XFCE install as well, @ first I was wondering wth was that a while ago .
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FYI: I havn’t had any weird issues with my motherboards audio so to me it seems that ALC4080 Linux drivers are pretty solid.
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