Sound Output very Low even at Max Volume

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Sifatullah_
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Sound Output very Low even at Max Volume

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Hello. I've installed Linux Mint 21.3 EDGE on my HP Laptop. Everything is working very smoothly and I'm really enjoying it. However, I'm having a slight issue with the sound output of my laptop being very low even at 100% volume level. Even at max volume I'm barely able to hear normal videos. I already read some online solution about this issue but couldn't solve it.

System Information:

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System:
  Kernel: 6.5.0-25-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A Desktop: Cinnamon 6.0.4 tk: GTK 3.24.33
    wm: muffin vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Pavilion Laptop 15-eh3xxx v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 8BC7 v: 68.20 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: AMI v: F.04 date: 12/15/2023
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 38.1 Wh (100.0%) condition: 38.1/38.1 Wh (100.0%) volts: 12.6 min: 11.3
    model: HP Primary type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full cycles: 74
CPU:
  Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 7730U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled
    arch: Zen 3 rev: 0 cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 4 MiB L3: 16 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 3154 high: 4523 min/max: 400/4546 cores: 1: 3615 2: 3845 3: 3625 4: 400
    5: 3614 6: 400 7: 3636 8: 3632 9: 3613 10: 3764 11: 3633 12: 3615 13: 3633 14: 400 15: 4523
    16: 4522 bogomips: 63878
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Barcelo vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s
    lanes: 16 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:15e7
    class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Chicony HP Wide Vision HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-3:2
    chip-ID: 04f2:b760 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu,ati
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
  Monitor-1: eDP res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142 size: 344x193mm (13.5x7.6") diag: 394mm (15.5")
  OpenGL: renderer: RENOIR (renoir LLVM 15.0.7 DRM 3.54 6.5.0-25-generic)
    v: 4.6 Mesa 23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.2 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_rn_pci_acp3x v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 03:00.5
    chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480
  Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 03:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k6.5.0-25-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: MEDIATEK MT7921 802.11ax PCI Express Wireless Network Adapter vendor: AzureWave
    driver: mt7921e v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 14c3:7961
    class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: IMC Networks Wireless_Device type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-4:3
    chip-ID: 13d3:3567 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 3.0 lmp-v: 5.2
    sub-v: 2311 hci-v: 5.2 rev: 919
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 82.27 GiB (17.3%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Intel model: SSDPEKNU512GZH size: 476.94 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s
    lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: HPS1 temp: 35.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 467.89 GiB used: 82.27 GiB (17.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 256 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /swapfile
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-3:2 info: Chicony HP Wide Vision HD Camera type: Video driver: uvcvideo
    interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 04f2:b760 class-ID: fe01
    serial: <filter>
  Device-2: 1-4:3 info: IMC Networks Wireless_Device type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 3
    rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 13d3:3567 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
    class-ID: 0900
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 3-4:2 info: Elan Micro ELAN:ARM-M4 type: <vendor specific> driver: N/A interfaces: 1
    rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 04f3:0c00 class-ID: 0000
  Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
    class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 50.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 51.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 fan-2: 0
Repos:
  Packages: 2207 apt: 2195 flatpak: 12
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb https: //mirrors.cicku.me/linuxmint/packages virginia main upstream import backport
    2: deb http: //mirror.sg.gs/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb http: //mirror.sg.gs/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb http: //mirror.sg.gs/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
Info:
  Processes: 384 Uptime: 57m wakeups: 62060 Memory: 14.96 GiB used: 2.62 GiB (17.5%) Init: systemd
  v: 249 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.4.0 alt: 11/12 Client: Unknown python3.10 client
  inxi: 3.3.13
I also tried typing

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alsamixer
in the terminal, but couldn't understand what to do.

Thanks in advance!
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Re: Sound Output very Low even at Max Volume

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The author of this thread has the same sound hardware as yours, so probably the same solution would help:
viewtopic.php?p=2436391#p2436391
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Re: Sound Output very Low even at Max Volume

Post by Sifatullah_ »

diabolicbg wrote: ⤴Sun Mar 17, 2024 7:09 am The author of this thread has the same sound hardware as yours, so probably the same solution would help:
viewtopic.php?p=2436391#p2436391
But that user had no sound output at all. And the solution in that post was to try out PipeWire instead of PulseAudio. But the thing is I just tried a bunch of Distros in Live mode to see if any distro with a newer kernel or PipeWire would fix the issue. But nope it doesn't fix it. The only way I'm able to make my sound output as loud as Windows was to use KDE, which has a "Raise volume above maximum" option. So when I set my volume past 100%, then slowly my sound gets louder and normal.
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