et al:
Very proud to announce that with the able assistance of @karlmistelberger I have completed my first DIYer computer build, following his K.I.S.S principle . . . TW has been installed and it is running to post this thread. Without Karl as both “corner man” and “cut man” keeping me in the fight, staunching the heavy bleeding and so forth . . . the project would still be floundering . . . rather than in service.
There are a couple of problems, but for this sub forum the issue of “having sound” that can play music, but only having scratchy noises when say YT videos are of two guys talking . . . then sound is unintelligible. Even in music, say with Gipsy Kings, the male solo voice does play, but isn’t “lavish” . . . . 4K videos with music play fine. I am using earphones to get the sound out, machine is essentially a mobo installed in a case . . . the grand tradition of the Spartan philosophy applied to computering.
I added the Packman repo and then "“changed vendor” in YaST . . . that brought in a few packages . . . didn’t make a difference. I tried to check ALSA, as way back in PPC days we had to check into ALSA and “unmute” and then slide some sliders up to get sound working. But the basic ALSA data was very basic, nothing seemed to shout out as the problem.
In sound prefs in the system there re showing “Renoir” and “Family,” Renoir shows as “disabled,” and indeed when I checked that as the mode, sound went away entirely. So the “Family” choice is the choice, sound is there, music plays, but if I want to watch Bob Wells talking about aspects of cheap RV Living . . . scratchy noise.
I looked around on the net to try to find a direction, including one at making an adjustment in the BIOS, but the comparative line items are not there in my BIOS for the MSI B550 Pro A combined with Ryzen 7 5700G cpu . . . NO discrete graphics card.
Is there a way to perhaps slide up the “Bass” in ALSA or pipewire so that male voices in particular can be understood?? Seems like specifically the deeper voices are not registering in this new install . . . ?? Any fixes to get a more complete range of sounds in the human voice paradigm??
> inxi -aA
Audio:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Renoir Radeon High Definition
Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3
speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 30:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h/19h/1ah HD Audio
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3
speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 30:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.14.6-1-default status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.2 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
@localhost:~> amixer -c0
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',1
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
