Hi, I installed Nobara on my ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16 but the audio quality is really poor. I found out that it’s because it’s not detecting the main speakers.
Previously, I installed Pop!_OS and Fedora too and they had the same issue.
Does anyone know a way to fix this? I’ve exhausted all the online guides I could find and none seem to work.
Specs:
ROG Zephyrus G16 GU603VU-N4027W
16.0" WQXGA 2560x1600 IPS level ROG Nebula Display
Intel® Core™ i7-13620H Processor 2.4 GHz (24M Cache, up to 4.9 GHz, 10 cores: 6 P-cores and 4 E-cores)
NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4050
16GB DDR4
1TB M.2 NVMe™ PCle® 4.0 SSD
720P HD IR Camera for Windows Hello
Bluetooth 5.2 (Dual Band)
I got that problem on a ROG Strix G733ZM. The solution was to install “hdajackretask” (sometimes in an ALSA tools package, sometimes elsewhere), select “ALC285” and “show unconnected pins” and map pin 0x14 to “Internal Speaker” and pin 0x1e to "Internal speaker (LFE), then install boot override and reboot.
Oh and after reboot I went to Configure Audio in KDE and selected a profile.
It looks like this.
I found it randomly online, don’t remember where. I wish I knew how those pins were discovered in the first place because it may well be different for different laptops and also I really want to know…
Oh BTW, in case you need to know: My microphone was having an awful lot of static noise. The trick was to 1) reduce microphone volume to 50% and 2) enable the ladspa-rnnoise noise filter in pipewire (it was already in my distributions repo). I checked in Windows and it sends the mic through an “ASUS AI noise filter” - so they’ve basically saved money on the hardware and are doing the same thing.