Soundblaster AE - 5 Settings
@Kyle Gospo
This is in volume control, finally got that working too. Mic works, the headset has seperate mic/audio jacks (two).
Can you tell me which config you are using? Mic seems to work and be heard on discord.
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Meant to report it here incase others need the answer. Have to switch card to 5.1 output/input and then headphones with mic work. Thank you for the purchase recommendation @Kyle Gospo I'm used to using desk dac/amp setups. This was infinitely cheaper for an equal quality setup to that.
@Kyle Gospo How do I save alsamixer settings on bazzite?
They should automatically save
Nothing you need to do
You are correct.on Fedora I had to use the store command to be consistent, so all good. Just deprogramming a bit from Fedora workstation and arch, thanks again for everything.
@Kyle Gospo Out of curiosity are you using a mic through it? The manual says the headphone part goes in slot 2 but that doesnt' work there. It only works in slot 3 which is a surround sound port and it causes large bass/reverb
yep
headset mic
So your mic cable goes into the first slot and the headphone one goes into the second one right? The headset comes with two cables
yep
I have headset out, headset mic in, and speakers out
3 plugs total
my headset has two plugins, one for the mic and one for the headset. The manual says the top one is headsetin/mic in, so mic goes there. Headset just refuses to work in number 2 but it does in 3 which is a surround port, but apparently when the headset is plugged in, sound settings subwoofer shows up as an option. I set that to zero, might have fixed everything.
I have headset in headset port
mic in mic port
and surround out goes to my speakers
just works like that, no setup
I wonder if something is wrong with my card then, number 2 just doesn't produce any noise, no matter what
I fixed it, now testing to see if it reverbsd
In alsamixer, the output selection for the second port was set to speaker, it had to be set to headset
@Kyle Gospo Okay yes, it was that. But Alsa is not retaining the fact that the output for the capture card to headphones to make that port work. I'm trying to read documentation and figure it out. All the other levels and everything set are good. Was able to get off the reverby third port which is for speakers
@Kyle Gospo I know you aren't support for audio devices but if you are willing to continue to help, I'd like to ask a few more questions because so far, everything seems great and I want to get more of these for all my bazzite machines.
I noticed that after a while of no noise, if I do something, theres a static for a tiny bit before everything comes back to normal, I assume theres some sort of audio device idle timeout and I've been researching into the appropriate pipewire settings.
maybe sometihng like this. Are you aware of any such issue and how do i permanently save pipewire saves since the config file does not exist in /var?
Those can be in etc or your home directory
kk
And that's a totally valid solution, Valve does it on the steam deck
Is it odd that I don't see libpipewire-module-suspend-node at all in the config file that comes in Bazzite?
I was under the understanding that it shouldn't be idling because that doesn't exist, but research says, it doesn't matter and to just use the edit anyway
Neat to know.
@Kyle Gospo I need for alsactl restore to run on boot and as far as I can tell from reading journal, checking system status, etc. It is running, but nothing happens. If I manually run sudo alsactl restore, it works fine.
I have
I've also tried
To see if it just needed a delay (did 2 sevonds on that one) and have tried different targets. I've enabled it with sudo systemctl enable alsa-restore.service
Which is the file name and its set in the correct location
why do you need this?
Because the the headset port on the card keeps resetting on every reboot
I've noticed that if I go into alsamixer and just switch the headset port, to headset, from speakers, everythings tarts working again
I cannot make it stay between reboots at all
To fix all my issues, I have the headset part connected into the motherboard and the mic just into the soundcard and now everything is working correctly as I intended it from the start, but when the entire of everything is plugged into the card, it all goes to heck.
that's really weird
I don't have to do any of that
Yeah....I wonder if the card is just damagedf but going to leave it like this for now