Hello dear Linux community,

I finally move from Windows to Fedora and encounter problems setting up my audio devices. Specifically, my speakers won't output any sound, while my headphones do.

I have two separate soundcards installed, one came with my mainboard and the other one was added later via PCI (Asus Xonar DG). Both, my speakers and my headphones work well when attached to the internal soundcard. When using the Xonar DG however, I get neither of them to work. Since the soundcard worked flawlessly in Windows, my assumption is that the configuration of my Xonar DG is not set up correctly. I wanted to kindly ask for help here in this forum.

I tried various speaker volumes just to make sure if there was very silent sound. I also checked twice if I put the audio jack in the correct slot.

Kernel information
PulseAudio configuration while using Xonar DG as default
since the forum won't let me post the whole output, I uploaded it to Pastebin.
http://pastebin.com/raw/rNWPwvGn

have you installed pavucontrol yet? it is a gui for PulseAudio it allows you to select your input output devices and volume control. that maybe all you need to do.Oh yes, make sure they are not muted. that is a default for most Linux PulseAudio installs. do you have volumeicon or similar applet installed? it will allow you to easily unmute your volume. now that maybe all you need to do.

Yes, install pavucontrol, open it, and check all the tabs, making sure that everything is set correctly. You have to select the correct input and output streams, and make sure they aren't muted. Pulseaudio sucks badly, but it's what is available.

Hello, thanks for your replies.
It seems like I don't have pavucontrol or volumeicon. What I do have though, is a graphical audio configuration interface which already came with KDE. Also, I have an icon in my system tray to mute devices and set volume.

This is what I see in my settings: https://imgur.com/a/0yA3d
Do you think its misconfigured?

Also, when looking through the output of pacmd info, I could not confirm that anything caused my device to be muted.

I've never used any of those programs, so I don't know if anything is configured properly. You're on your own with KDE, sorry.

Try this.

open a terminal and as a normal user, type in the command:

hit enter. select your sound card, if needed, by hitting F6. Use the up and down arrows to lower/higher volume settings. When done simply hit the Esc key.

all the above and or select your sound card in that high techy gui thingy then see if that works, if one does not then try the other one. report back

Hello,

in the settings, I pretty much tried out all possible combinations, all profiles.
I ran the alsamixer command and was display a cli gui, where I pressed F6 and selected "Xonar DG". After turning up the volume a bit more, there still was no output.

One strange thing I came across was the fact that as soon as I tried to set anything via terminal, the Device Preference List only showed me one device any more, called "PulseAudio Sound Server". Before doing this, I always have various output devices listed there, including a "Dummy Output".

// EDIT //
I managed to get it working. I found out that my soundcard had the option to connect to the front panel. I was only using the rear panel. So, alsa set the output to front panel only, which caused my rear panel not to receive anything. I ran alsamixer, and changed the 'Analog Output' to 'Multichannel' by using the up and down arrow keys.

Does anybody know how to set this in the shell? KMix has the option to select seperate outputs for my internal soundcard, it doesn't have this option for my Xonar DG though.