Sound is too low...... new rig Dual X99 MX23FB

[Amiga-MX]

Good evening

This is not going to help too much. I have installed MX23.6 FB in my new machine. The sound is too low. Tested in headphones and speakers.

Dual Xeon E5 2680 V4 Realtek-Intel Navy Pro.
Can't provide system information as I have dismantled the hardware again, because I was taking sizing for a tailored box where to put into.


Basic questions

1. Should I try to run another kernel ?
2. Should I have to reinstall MX23 to run kernel ?

TIA
MXLMLGO

[j2mcgreg]

Make and model of the motherboard please.

[Amiga-MX]

Machinist x99 dual MD8. I saved the entire report, couldn't send it to the forum, due to some login problem. Now I'm using the iMac shown in the tag as headquarter. ASAP, I'll rebuild the rig to get that report.

Thank you

[CharlesV]

Try this:

1) run alsomixer in a terminal
2) F6 and choose your sound card
3) F5 to choose all channels.
4) One by one, press + to increase the sound on each channel. Use the > key to move to the next channel. There ARE more of them then shown on the FIRST screen! so go through every single one, and increase each one as far as it will go.
5) Now try sound. You may decrease the volume with the regular Volume control in the task bar.

[Stevo]

The Google really doesn't know what the Intel Navy Pro is, though it suggested something to do with that armed forces branch. If the hardware dates from 2023 or later, it may need updating to the AHS version.

[Amiga-MX]

Thank you guys.

I'll try Alsamixer and report. Also, I'll get the in xi info ASAP to share with you.

As usual, your help is very appreciated.


MXLMLGO

[Amiga-MX]

@stevo forget the so called Navi it seems is part of the gpu DMI sound which is not our target. Sorry for that.

@j2mcgreg

@CharlesV I did it, only one slider was low, but it does not affect the sound level that is still too low. About 50% of what it should be

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System:
  Kernel: 6.1.0-33-amd64 [6.1.133-1] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-33-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
    resume=UUID=<filter> resume_offset=1309343
  Desktop: Fluxbox v: 1.3.7 info: tint2 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: MX-23.6_fluxbox_x64
    Libretto April 13 2025 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: MACHINIST model: X99 MD8 v: V1.2 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: American Megatrends v: 5.11 date: 10/12/2024
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 bits: 64 type: MT MCP SMP arch: Broadwell level: v3
    note: check built: 2015-18 process: Intel 14nm family: 6 model-id: 0x4F (79) stepping: 1
    microcode: 0xB000040
  Topology: cpus: 2x cores: 14 tpc: 2 threads: 28 smt: enabled cache: L1: 2x 896 KiB (1.8 MiB)
    desc: d-14x32 KiB; i-14x32 KiB L2: 2x 3.5 MiB (7 MiB) desc: 14x256 KiB L3: 2x 35 MiB (70 MiB)
    desc: 1x35 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1228 high: 1800 min/max: 1200/3300 scaling: driver: intel_cpufreq
    governor: ondemand cores: 1: 1200 2: 1200 3: 1200 4: 1200 5: 1300 6: 1236 7: 1200 8: 1200 9: 1500
    10: 1200 11: 1200 12: 1203 13: 1200 14: 1198 15: 1200 16: 1197 17: 1197 18: 1200 19: 1200
    20: 1200 21: 1200 22: 1198 23: 1200 24: 1200 25: 1200 26: 1200 27: 1197 28: 1200 29: 1288
    30: 1197 31: 1200 32: 1200 33: 1400 34: 1300 35: 1200 36: 1200 37: 1300 38: 1200 39: 1800
    40: 1200 41: 1200 42: 1200 43: 1200 44: 1200 45: 1200 46: 1200 47: 1200 48: 1200 49: 1300
    50: 1200 51: 1200 52: 1200 53: 1200 54: 1200 55: 1200 56: 1200 bogomips: 268236
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines; IBPB: conditional; IBRS_FW; STIBP: conditional; RSB
    filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 23 [Radeon RX 6600/6600 XT/6600M] vendor: ASRock driver: amdgpu v: kernel
    arch: RDNA-2 code: Navi-2x process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-22 pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s
    lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-1 empty: DP-2,DP-3,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:73ff
    class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1680x1050 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 444x277mm (17.48x10.91") s-diag: 523mm (20.6")
  Monitor-1: DP-1 mapped: DisplayPort-0 model: LG (GoldStar) W2242 serial: <filter> built: 2009
    res: 1680x1050 hz: 60 dpi: 90 gamma: 1.2 size: 474x296mm (18.66x11.65") diag: 585mm (23")
    ratio: 3:2, 16:10 modes: max: 1680x1050 min: 720x400
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: AMD Radeon RX 6600 (navi23 LLVM 15.0.6 DRM 3.49
    6.1.0-33-amd64) direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel C610/X99 series HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
    chip-ID: 8086:8d20 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4
    speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 05:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab28 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-33-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie:
    gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 6000 bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie:
    gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 5000 bus-ID: 08:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eth1 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 80.25 GiB (8.6%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Netac model: NVMe SSD 1TB size: 931.51 GiB
    block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
    rev: SN22751 temp: 41.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 204.88 GiB size: 204.88 GiB (100.00%) used: 74.26 GiB (36.2%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 256 MiB size: 252 MiB (98.46%) used: 562 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 726.38 GiB size: 726.38 GiB (100.00%) used: 5.99 GiB (0.8%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 70.76 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /swap/swap
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 48.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 42.0 C mem: 42.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0
Repos:
  Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 1914 libs: 920 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,nala,synaptic pm: rpm pkgs: 0
    pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
    1: deb http://ftp.cica.es/mirrors/Linux/MX-Packages/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
Info:
  Processes: 648 Uptime: 25m wakeups: 1 Memory: 62.76 GiB used: 3 GiB (4.8%) Init: SysVinit v: 3.06
  runlevel: 5 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12
  Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: UEFI

Thank you, FB'ers

[rokytnji.1]

You went that far to build a box,

I run a external 2 channel 800 amp that cost that cost me 23 bucks on ebay through some used working Teac Tower speakers.
Use 3 way mp3 sound jack to for amp input and just speaker wire . Even have a defualt sound dongle usb drive to power this as
there is only sound piped through hdmi without it.
It sounds good in the motorcycle shop.
In MX 23.2 Fluxbox.