Hi, I installed Nobara on my ROG Zephyrus G16 but the audio quality is really poor. I found out that it’s because it’s not detecting the main speakers.

Previously, I installed Pop!_OS and Fedora too and they had the same issue.

Does anyone know a way to fix this? I’ve exhausted all the online guides I could fine and none seem to work.

Specs:

ROG Zephyrus G16 GU603VU-N4027W

16.0" WQXGA 2560x1600 IPS level ROG Nebula Display

Intel® Core™ 17-13620H Processor 2.4 GHz (24M Cache, up to 4.9 GHz, 10 cores: 6 P-cores and 4 E-cores)

NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4050

16GB DDR4

1TB M.2 NVMe™ PCle® 4.0 SSD

720P HD IR Camera for Windows Hello

Bluetooth 5.2 (Dual Band)

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    If multiple distributions are having the same issue, that means it’s a combo driver and pipe wire issue. A lot of newer laptops have terrible speakers that are paired with Nahimic in Windows to sound a bit less shitty, then have the gain jerked up to insane levels.

    If you’re 100% sure this about speakers missing, you need to get a newer kernel running and see if they get detected, and if not, start tracking the devices through dmesg and ls* device utils to find where it’s at. You wouldn’t be the only one having this issue if it’s what you think it is.

    Edit: Arch Wiki says they have everything working, and link to an issue with the bass speakers not working: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ASUS_ROG_Zephyrus_G16_(2023)_GU603