Ooops I have misleaded you with PinConfigOverride that's for all the Macs, dont look for it anymore. Node 0x17 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40058d: Stereo Amp-Out Control: name="Bass Speaker Playback Switch", index=0, device=0 ControlAmp: chs=3, dir=Out, idx=0, ofs=0 Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1 Amp-Out vals: [0x00 0x00] Pincap 0x0001001c: OUT HP EAPD Detect EAPD 0x2: EAPD Pin Default 0x411111f0: [N/A] Speaker at Ext Rear Conn = 1/8, Color = Black DefAssociation = 0xf, Sequence = 0x0 Misc = NO_PRESENCE Pin-ctls: 0x40: OUT Unsolicited: tag=00, enabled=0 Power states: D0 D1 D2 D3 EPSS Power: setting=D3, actual=D3 Connection: 3 0x0c 0x0d 0x06* Looking at your alsa-info, this is your Bass Speaker Playback Switch. It is in current Power setting=D3 and actual=D3. It should become D0 to be turned on. Not sure if you can do this via alsamixer -c0 ?(or whatever number is your card). there is also a way with hda-verb (make sure you have hda-verb installed (from <ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/tools/alsa-tools-1.1.7.tar.bz2> alsa-tools <ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/tools/alsa-tools-1.1.7.tar.bz2> ?)) According to https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.16/sound/hd-audio/notes.html power_save_node (bool) advanced power management for each widget, controlling the power sate (D0/D3) of each widget node depending on the actual pin and stream states could be a permanent more elegant solution in a hda-jack-retask.fw patch, but no idea how it should look for that widget exactly, Takashi can suggest. You can try for now enabling that Power: setting=D0, actual=D0 if that will help you probably: Documentation is at: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/product-specifications/high-definition-audio-specification.pdf Page 153 is of your interest. 0x705 is the SET verb, 0x00 should be fully on D0 state # sudo hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x17 0x705 0x00 you can get the value from the codec back: # sudo hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x17 0xf05 0x00 Hope that helps, if that solves the solution as a dirty thing you can put that hda-verb command in your /etc/rc.local (depending on the distro rc.local maybe deadend). On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 5:58 AM Jonathan Reeve <jon.reeve@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi David, > > Thanks very much for helping me look into this. > > > Have you tried any other distribution, something more normal > > like latest > > Fedora or Ubuntu ? Does the subwoofers work there ? > > I just tried an Ubuntu live USB disk. I can't get subwoofers to > work > there, either. > > > If you run Ubuntu/Fedora you can check the sound settings and > > pavucontrol > > there is selection of speakers usually 2.1 5.1... try those ? > > I don't see any option for that in pavucontrol on Ubuntu. > > > And you have to make sure those [pincfgs] match with your > > Windows10 > > registry of the driver's PinConfigOverride. > > Awesome. How can I find these settings? I checked in regedit and > searched > for `pinconfigoverride` and `pincfg`, but nothing's coming up. I > also > grepped all the driver files for those expressions, but nothing's > coming > up there, either. Do you know if these settings are called > something > else? > > > You happen to have Windows running on that machine and can > > extract the > > pinconfigoverride or have .ini of the driver? I can help you > > compare > > those. > > Yep, I have the Windows 10 driver files, but there is no .ini > file, as far as > I can tell. There are lots of text files that look like they could > be > configuration files of some sort. Which one(s) should I be looking > for? > > Best, > > Jonathan > _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel