Hi,
This is a bit of a head scratcher for me, as searching for the necessary terms just leads to lots of options that are, at best, the reverse of what I’m looking for, or have nothing to do with it whatsoever.
What I’m trying to figure out is how to force 5.1/6.1/7.1 audio through 2.1 speakers.
Existing, stock audio software seems to handle everything quite well, except for the center channel, which gets lost somewhere along the line. Probably, many of you have noticed how on a movie or TV show, the dialog will be so quiet you can barely hear it, while a scene’s ambience and background music come through way too loud.
I know a lot of that has to do with the sound mixing in Hollywood, but I also know for sure that not all 5.1 channels are being squeezed out of my 2.1 speakers. And it seems to just be the center channel that’s being dropped. FR RR are being routed through the right speaker, and likewise for left. Why isn’t the center channel coming out through one or the other or both?
How can I get this to happen?
inxi output:
$ inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width
System:
Kernel: 5.9.16-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.9-x86_64
root=UUID=e5c17dd5-7570-4969-bf7b-5acdbb61e285 ro quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: GNOME v: 42.1 tk: GTK v: 3.24.33 wm: gnome-shell dm: 1: GDM
v: 42.0 2: LightDM v: 1.30.0 note: stopped Distro: Manjaro Linux
base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: X570 AORUS ELITE v: -CF
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Gigabyte model: X570 AORUS ELITE v: x.x serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: F30 date: 09/15/2020
Battery:
Message: No system battery data found. Is one present?
Memory:
RAM: total: 31.37 GiB used: 4.24 GiB (13.5%)
RAM Report:
permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: model: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2
family: 0x17 (23) model-id: 0x71 (113) stepping: 0 microcode: 0x8701021
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 12 tpc: 2 threads: 24 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 768 KiB desc: d-12x32 KiB; i-12x32 KiB L2: 6 MiB desc: 12x512 KiB
L3: 64 MiB desc: 4x16 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2264 high: 3594 min/max: 2200/3800 boost: enabled
scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 2812 2: 2004
3: 2047 4: 2193 5: 3594 6: 2159 7: 2203 8: 1917 9: 2082 10: 3287 11: 1967
12: 2057 13: 2358 14: 1974 15: 1968 16: 2196 17: 2432 18: 1865 19: 2196
20: 2195 21: 2196 22: 2494 23: 2056 24: 2097 bogomips: 182152
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1
bmi2 bpext cat_l3 cdp_l3 clflush clflushopt clwb clzero cmov cmp_legacy
constant_tsc cpb cpuid cqm cqm_llc cqm_mbm_local cqm_mbm_total
cqm_occup_llc cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic extd_apicid
f16c flushbyasid fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb ibs
irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm mba mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe
msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae
pat pausefilter pclmulqdq pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb
pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse pse36 rdpid rdpru rdrand rdseed rdt_a
rdtscp rep_good sep sev sha_ni skinit smap smca sme smep ssbd sse sse2
sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 stibp succor svm svm_lock syscall tce topoext
tsc tsc_scale umip v_vmsave_vmload vgif vmcb_clean vme vmmcall wbnoinvd
wdt xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveerptr xsaveopt xsaves
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP:
conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Navi 10 [Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 XT]
vendor: XFX Pine driver: amdgpu v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s
lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-1,DP-2 empty: DP-3,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 0b:00.0
chip-ID: 1002:731f class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.3 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.1
compositor: gnome-shell driver: X: loaded: amdgpu
unloaded: modesetting,radeon alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: amdgpu
display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1016x285mm (40.00x11.22")
s-diag: 1055mm (41.54")
Monitor-1: DP-1 mapped: DisplayPort-0 pos: primary,left model: Sceptre T24
built: 2019 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 94 gamma: 1.2 size: 520x320mm (20.47x12.6")
diag: 611mm (24") ratio: 16:10 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
Monitor-2: DP-2 mapped: DisplayPort-1 pos: right model: Sceptre T24
built: 2019 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 94 gamma: 1.2 size: 520x320mm (20.47x12.6")
diag: 611mm (24") ratio: 16:10 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
Message: Unable to show GL data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Navi 10 HDMI Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 0b:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab38
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 0d:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.9.16-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.51 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel I211 Gigabit Network vendor: Gigabyte driver: igb v: kernel
pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: f000 bus-ID: 04:00.0
chip-ID: 8086:1539 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
Device-2: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW [Stone Peak] driver: iwlwifi
v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 05:00.0
chip-ID: 8086:24fb class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp5s0 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: wgpia0 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
IP v4: <filter> scope: global
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Message: No bluetooth data found.
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 3.66 TiB used: 1.03 TiB (28.2%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Intel model: SSDPEKNW010T8
size: 953.87 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 002C temp: 41.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Toshiba model: HDWD130 size: 2.73 TiB
block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD
rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: ACF0 scheme: GPT
Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: Linux model: File-CD Gadget rev: 0318
dev-links: cdrom
Features: speed: 1 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: no rw: none
state: running
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 345.05 GiB size: 338.63 GiB (98.14%)
used: 13.79 GiB (4.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:3
label: N/A uuid: e5c17dd5-7570-4969-bf7b-5acdbb61e285
ID-2: /home raw-size: 608.19 GiB size: 597.64 GiB (98.27%)
used: 169.04 GiB (28.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:2
label: home uuid: c91ed9e2-7319-44c3-bd09-2ad48ce3a4cd
ID-3: /run/media/one/Storage raw-size: 2.73 TiB size: 2.69 TiB (98.39%)
used: 875.02 GiB (31.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: Storage
uuid: ead6264d-e3f0-4511-9d85-24353fd36e73
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 size: 513 MiB fs: vfat label: N/A
uuid: 466F-0D84
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 6 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-2:2 info: INSTANT USB GAMING MOUSE type: Mouse,Keyboard
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s
power: 100mA chip-ID: 30fa:1701 class-ID: 0300
Hub-2: 1-3:3 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
power: 100mA chip-ID: 05e3:0608 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-4:4 info: Integrated Express IT8297 RGB LED Controller
type: Keyboard driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 048d:8297 class-ID: 0301
Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Hub-4: 3-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 6 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-5: 3-6:2 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
power: 100mA chip-ID: 05e3:0608 class-ID: 0900
Hub-6: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Hub-7: 5-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 5-1:2 info: SINO WEALTH Gaming KB type: Keyboard,HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
power: 500mA chip-ID: 258a:002a class-ID: 0300
Hub-8: 5-3:3 info: Hitachi ports: 4 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s
chip-ID: 045b:0209 class-ID: 0900
Hub-9: 5-3.1:4 info: Hitachi ports: 4 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s
chip-ID: 045b:0209 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 5-3.1.2:6 info: MediaTek Armor 9 type: <vendor specific>
driver: usbfs interfaces: 2 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA
chip-ID: 0e8d:201d class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
Device-2: 5-3.1.3:7 info: Lenovo Android type: Mass Storage
driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA
chip-ID: 17ef:7bc5 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter>
Hub-10: 6-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 6-2:2 info: Genesys Logic All-in-One Cardreader
type: Mass Storage driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 3.1 speed: 5 Gb/s
power: 896mA chip-ID: 05e3:0748 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter>
Hub-11: 6-3:3 info: Hitachi ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
chip-ID: 045b:0210 class-ID: 0900
Hub-12: 6-3.1:4 info: Hitachi ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
chip-ID: 045b:0210 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 60.5 C mobo: 16.8 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 51.0 C
mem: 56.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0
Info:
Processes: 478 Uptime: 16h 8m wakeups: 2 Init: systemd v: 250
tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.2.0 clang: 13.0.1 Packages: 1510
pacman: 1506 lib: 445 flatpak: 4 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16
running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.15