Hi all,
As above I am a total newbie to linux in general and Manjaro in particular, Manjaro was recommneded to me for ease of installation and it was very easy. However, a few small niggly issues have arisen that I would love to resolve. Please forgive the lengthy post as I feel the more information the better.
First my setup:
Dell Optiplex 790 i5-2400 CPU, 16GB RAM Nvidia GeForce GT730 GPU
Samsung 42" TV connected via HDMI to PC
CMI 8738 PCI sound card
Analogue 5.1 speaker system (3.5mm jack connections)
3.5mm lead from TV to line-in to play sound from TV to 5.1 speakers (works perfectly in Windows 7)
Manjaro Linux Plasma 21.0.7 with 5.10.49-1 kernel, all updates done and totally fresh installation, nothing addes or removed as yet.
My first issue:
There is no line-in option in the audio configuration for the sound car, so that I can get my TV to play through my 5.1 speakers. Can someone please advise what needs to be done/installed in order to get access to the line-in option?
My Second issue:
in the Configure Audio Devices" option all 6 speakers show correctly, however, the front left, front right, rear left and rear right are at 77% volume while the sub-woofer and the centre speaker are at 100%. If I push the first four (front and rear L+R) to 100% and then go out, when I go back into the same settings, then the speakers are back to 77%.
When I run the command inxi --audio this is the output I get:
[mark@DELL-Manjaro ~]$ inxi --audio
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA GK208 HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-2: C-Media CMI8738/CMI8768 PCI Audio driver: snd_cmipci
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.49-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes
[mark@DELL-Manjaro ~]$
I do also have PipeWire installed by default however, it seems it is not running, although it was yesterday when I first ran inxi --audio.
So please, any assistance for the two above issues would be most appreciated.
Thanking you.
Hi all, thank you, but I no longer need assistance with this as I an no longer continuing with Linux. I am simply too new and experiencing too many frustrations and issues.
Thank you
Good day Fabby,
Thank you for your reply and encouragement.
I hear you. What you have said is exactly why I have persisted till now with Linux, so I tell you what, if someone provides a working solution to my issues above, I will definitely continue with Linux, in what ever form.
Thank you
Please read this: How to provide good information
and post some more information so we can see whatâs really going on. Now we know the symptom of the disease, but we need some more probing to know where the origin liesâŚ
An inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width would be the minimum required information for us to be able to help you. (Personally Identifiable Information like serial numbers and MAC addresses will be filtered out by the above command)
Also, please copy-paste that output in-between 3 backticks ``` at the beginning and end of the code/text.
Hi Fabby,
Thank you again for your reply. I will have to reinstall Manjaro as I have been testing some other flavors of Linux, so I will post that command output in a few moments, my PC does not take long to install Manjaro, thank goodness.
Hi Fabby,
Thank you for your reply.
As Follows:
I am not looking to send sound from my PC to my TV but the other way round, when I watch TV the sound should play through the computer speakers using a 3.5mm jack cable connected to line-out on my TV and line-in on my PCI sound card, which it does perfectly in Windows. As I stated there is no line-in or any other form of input device in my volume controls in Manjero.
2: I have done that (found out about alsamixer on another question in this forum) and the sound stays the same, there is no difference in volume, so somewhere something is not communicating with my sound card to control the volume.
Unfortunately, I wonât be able to help you any further then except an edit to your title.
For the future: please limit your post to one question per topic so you will attract the right experts. âNewbie with sound problemsâ isnât a catchy title for the Gurus out thereâŚ
If the blue Line-In socket for the audio card works in another OS it should be possible to get it working
This audio card has hardware mixing for audio capture inputs similar to Soundblaster cards C-Media CMI8738 | Alsa Opensrc Org
please post response to this command to show all the ALSA controls for the card
amixer --card=1
If there is a control in ALSA for Four Channel Mode try turning it off to increase audio level
Cmipci | Alsa Opensrc Org
When âFour Channel Modeâ switch is off, the output from rear speakers will be FULL VOLUME regardless of Master and PCM volumes. This might damage your audio equipment. Please disconnect speakers before your turn off this switch.