Alsamixer
Possible to select “Family 17h…” turn on/off the channels.
I set the values to 51% for testing and to control in /usr/share/alsa-card-profile/mixer/profile-sets/default.conf.
There the config (could see 51%) seems o.k.
In Plasma - Audio Einstellungen the “Family 17h…” is Aus (Off) and no possiblty of any change.
but
profiles:
HiFi: Default (priority 8000, available: no)
off: Aus (priority 0, available: unknown)
active profile: off
…
No Profile Digital Stereo (IEC958) is available, analog or S/PDIF
This will not do much good as the file will either get replaced when package alsa-card-profiles is updated, or system will create a .pacnew folder and not update the file
PulseAudio will not use the ‘Hifi’ Profile if it is detected as not available
The Profile is probably not available because the ports (sinks (outputs) and sources (inputs) ) are also not available
so pacmd list-sinks may be showing the SPDIF output sink iec958-stereo-output but it is probably shown as ‘available:no’
please post full response to
sudo dmesg | grep snd
to check if the onboard audio device outputs are correctly detected in ALSA
Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 87
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 66 [76%] [-15.75dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 66 [76%] [-15.75dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Front',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 87
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-65.25dB] [off]
Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-65.25dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Front Mic Boost',0
Capabilities: volume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: 0 - 3
Front Left: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
Front Right: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Front-Panel',0
Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 63
Front Left: Capture 0 [0%] [-17.25dB] [off]
Front Right: Capture 0 [0%] [-17.25dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Surround',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 87
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 66 [76%] [-15.75dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 66 [76%] [-15.75dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Center',0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 87
Mono: Playback 66 [76%] [-15.75dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'LFE',0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 87
Mono: Playback 66 [76%] [-15.75dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Line Boost',0
Capabilities: volume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: 0 - 3
Front Left: 2 [67%] [20.00dB]
Front Right: 2 [67%] [20.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Default PCM',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',1
Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 63
Front Left: Capture 0 [0%] [-17.25dB] [off]
Front Right: Capture 0 [0%] [-17.25dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0
Capabilities: cenum
Items: 'Rear Mic' 'Line'
Item0: 'Rear Mic'
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',1
Capabilities: cenum
Items: 'Rear Mic' 'Line'
Item0: 'Rear Mic'
Simple mixer control 'Rear Mic Boost',0
Capabilities: volume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: 0 - 3
Front Left: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
Front Right: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Rear-Panel',0
Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 63
Front Left: Capture 0 [0%] [-17.25dB] [off]
Front Right: Capture 0 [0%] [-17.25dB] [off]
I am rather at a loss, cause the same phenomen produce a Gigabyte B550I Board.
The digital output is detected in ALSA, but it is not shown as S/PDIF
There are 2 ALSA controls listed for digital audio as IEC958 instead of S/PDIF
There is no mention of digital output in the HiFi profile for ALC1220 Analog (Card:1Device:0)
ALC1220 Digital audio playback is probably Card:1Device:1 and can probably be added to PulseAudio
Archwiki suggests using this command (but I only found this today and not sure if/how it works)
iecset -c1 audio on
I know a solution that works to add an analog output that is not automatically detected in PulseAudio
I can add a digital output sink on my system but I do not have any spdif hardware to confirm 100% it is working, but it appears to work no problem
The module is not persistent and will not be reloaded if system (or PulseAudio) is restarted
If it works for you, the PulseAudio configuration can be customised to have module always loaded (and set to be the default-sink for audio)
If you want more than a stereo output (surround sound or DTS/AEC compression) the command will need additional options for module-alsa-sink