no base sound on my 2.1 speakers

[William Biggs]

thanks
On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 15:13 -0700, Greg Woods wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 16:19 -0500, William Biggs wrote:
> > I have a set of 2.1 speakers on my desktop the sound card is on board I
> > think it is a Intel sound board . but when I try to play any song with
> > base there no base . When I open the sound setting the sub woofer is
> > grade out  . 
> 
> 
> I can't speak to your particular situation, nor do I hold myself up as
> an expert in the kernel and device drivers, so I am open to being
> corrected. But in my experience, Linux support for onboard sound chips
> is not very good (as a guess, this is most likely because information
> about those chips is not made available to ALSA developers). Usually if
> you just use stereo it will work, but, as an example, I have a brand new
> ASUS Z87-A motherboard which has an SPDIF out port, but it would never
> work. The stereo output ports worked, but not SPDIF. I ended up having
> to re-use an old PCI sound card to get surround sound out of that box
> (or any sound at all from the SPDIF port). And the same thing happened
> with my older machine and it's motherboard, which is why I had that old
> PCI sound card in the first place.
> 
> --Greg
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