Realtec Maxx Audio

[petedecember]

I have an Inspiron with Realtec Maxx Audio. I have no idea if is installed and working, or even what it does. When I use Driver Manager it says that there are no proprietary drivers installed, so if it is working it is using some native driver. What does this do and is it work messing with?

[MrEen]

Hi petedecember.

It looks like Waves (the makers of MaxxAudio) stopped their very limited support for Linux years ago, sorry.

If you're having any sound issues, just say what the problem is and we can probably figure something out. But that button (if you have one) isn't going to do anything useful on Linux.

[petedecember]

Thanks for your reply. The only thing that I am really interested in is getting the little sub woofer on the bottom of my laptop working. Any ideas?

[MrEen]

Thanks for your reply. The only thing that I am really interested in is getting the little sub woofer on the bottom of my laptop working. Any ideas?

I would guess you'd need a 2.1 profile to accomplish that. The easiest way I know how to set that up is to install and run PulseAudio Volume Control, then navigate to the Configuration tab and check the Profiles that are available. If you do see one that says 2.1, select it and that might be all you need.

Let us know what happens, and good luck.

[petedecember]

Hmmm... PulseAudio Volume Controls, configuration tab does not offer a 2.1 setting. Any other ideas? Does anyone else have a Dell Inspiron with this MaxxAudio setup? Thanks for your help.

[MrEen]

Let's try this. What's the output of running dmesg | grep snd in the terminal. If we can see the appropriate speaker count there, we can probably get it working.

[MrEen]

Crap. I should also mention to check alsamixer in the terminal. If the sub shows there it's probably just muted. If that's the case, arrow over to select the sub, then press m to unmute and the up arrow to increase volume.

[petedecember]

Thanks again for you help. dmesg | grep snd seemed to say that there are no speakers present: "speaker_out=0"

Alsamixer might have seen the subwoofer, as next to the slider labeled speaker there was a slider labeled PCM. Both of which were turned up to 100. Any idea what PCM might be?

Again, thanks.

[MrEen]

PCM is something different. The sub should be named LFE (sorry I forgot to mention that earlier.)

Anyway, if there is no LFE in alsamixer, I have found a link that should help you get that sub working: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2217683
Post #4 has the details. While it's a different laptop brand, the instructions should work in general. You may have a different option than Analog Surround 4.0 Output, but something similar should become available.

Good luck, and let me know if you need any clarification.

[petedecember]

Hey--I got it to work! I did have to make a couple of adjustments, perhaps Dell specific issues:

On Jack Retasking utility:
I had to use the codec "ID 92HD91BXX"
{remember to check the "unconnected pins" box}

and then the pin configuration "0x10" and turn on "internal LFE"

On my sound settings I had to to use "Analogue Stereo Output"

The "sound test" didn't make any sound at all, but it works just fine when I play a MP3

Thanks for the help!

[MrEen]

Yeah! Good work, petedecember! Happy I could help.

[petedecember]

Ah crap....

I upgraded to LM 19.1 and now I cannot get my subwoofer to work again. Anybody got any new ideas? Thanks.

[MrEen]

Let's see the output of dmesg | grep -C1 -E 'ALSA|HDA|HDMI|snd[_-]|sound|hda.codec|hda.intel' and pacmd list-cards please.

[petedecember]

Well, with messing with HDAJackRetask I did get my sub to work again. Thank you for your willingness to help, and just for fun here are the results that you wanted to look at:

[ 0.049177] ACPI: Added _OSI(Linux-Dell-Video)
[ 0.049177] ACPI: Added _OSI(Linux-Lenovo-NV-HDMI-Audio)
[ 0.049177] ACPI: Added _OSI(Linux-HPI-Hybrid-Graphics)
--
[ 16.924298] RAPL PMU: hw unit of domain pp1-gpu 2^-16 Joules
[ 16.934160] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops i915_audio_component_bind_ops [i915])
[ 16.934505] usbcore: registered new interface driver btusb
--
[ 16.972349] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-agn-rs'
[ 16.975768] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC0D0: autoconfig for 92HD91BXX: line_outs=1 (0xd/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0) type:speaker
[ 16.975771] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC0D0: speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[ 16.975774] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC0D0: hp_outs=1 (0xb/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[ 16.975775] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC0D0: mono: mono_out=0x0
[ 16.975777] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC0D0: inputs:
[ 16.975779] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC0D0: Internal Mic=0x11
[ 16.975781] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC0D0: Mic=0xa
[ 16.981977] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
--
[ 17.021709] USB Video Class driver (1.1.1)
[ 17.021782] input: HDA Intel PCH Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input10
[ 17.021841] input: HDA Intel PCH Headphone as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input11
[ 17.021913] input: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input12
[ 17.099892] EXT4-fs (sda2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
--
[ 25.444274] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
[ 122.625987] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC0D0: hda-codec: reconfiguring
[ 122.663797] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC0D0: autoconfig for 92HD91BXX: line_outs=2 (0xd/0x10/0x0/0x0/0x0) type:speaker
[ 122.663800] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC0D0: speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[ 122.663803] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC0D0: hp_outs=1 (0xb/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[ 122.663804] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC0D0: mono: mono_out=0x0
[ 122.663805] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC0D0: inputs:
[ 122.663808] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC0D0: Internal Mic=0x11
[ 122.663810] snd_hda_codec_idt hdaudioC0D0: Mic=0xa
[ 122.683149] input: HDA Intel PCH Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input14
[ 122.683273] input: HDA Intel PCH Headphone as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input15



1 card(s) available.
index: 0
name: <alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1b.0>
driver: <module-alsa-card.c>
owner module: 7
properties:
alsa.card = "0"
alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel PCH"
alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel PCH at 0xd0610000 irq 30"
alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel"
device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1b.0"
sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0"
device.bus = "pci"
device.vendor.id = "8086"
device.vendor.name = "Intel Corporation"
device.product.id = "1e20"
device.product.name = "7 Series/C216 Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller"
device.form_factor = "internal"
device.string = "0"
device.description = "Built-in Audio"
module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci"
profiles:
input:analog-stereo: Analog Stereo Input (priority 60, available: unknown)
output:analog-stereo: Analog Stereo Output (priority 6000, available: unknown)
output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo: Analog Stereo Duplex (priority 6060, available: unknown)
output:analog-surround-40: Analog Surround 4.0 Output (priority 700, available: unknown)
output:analog-surround-40+input:analog-stereo: Analog Surround 4.0 Output + Analog Stereo Input (priority 760, available: unknown)
output:hdmi-stereo: Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output (priority 5400, available: no)
output:hdmi-stereo+input:analog-stereo: Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output + Analog Stereo Input (priority 5460, available: unknown)
output:hdmi-surround: Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI) Output (priority 300, available: no)
output:hdmi-surround+input:analog-stereo: Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI) Output + Analog Stereo Input (priority 360, available: unknown)
output:hdmi-surround71: Digital Surround 7.1 (HDMI) Output (priority 300, available: no)
output:hdmi-surround71+input:analog-stereo: Digital Surround 7.1 (HDMI) Output + Analog Stereo Input (priority 360, available: unknown)
off: Off (priority 0, available: unknown)
active profile: <output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo>
sinks:
alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo/#0: Built-in Audio Analog Stereo
sources:
alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor/#0: Monitor of Built-in Audio Analog Stereo
alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo/#1: Built-in Audio Analog Stereo
ports:
analog-input-internal-mic: Internal Microphone (priority 8900, latency offset 0 usec, available: unknown)
properties:
device.icon_name = "audio-input-microphone"
analog-input-mic: Microphone (priority 8700, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
properties:
device.icon_name = "audio-input-microphone"
analog-output-speaker: Speakers (priority 10000, latency offset 0 usec, available: unknown)
properties:
device.icon_name = "audio-speakers"
analog-output-headphones: Headphones (priority 9000, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
properties:
device.icon_name = "audio-headphones"
hdmi-output-0: HDMI / DisplayPort (priority 5900, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
properties:
device.icon_name = "video-display"


INTERSTINGLY, when I used the HDAJackRetask utility with LM19 it knocked out my microphone, but now it works! Again thanks for you help.

[MrEen]

Nice work again.

Glad you got it figured out.