@nolew
In post #36, where you showed the output of alsamixer, there are a couple of adjustments you could try:
unmute S/PDIF;
raise all sound levels to maximum so they show red at the top of each slider.
You can use the instructions for adjustment described by
@Condobloke in post #33.
It looks like it's not a full picture of the alsamixer output and there may be more to the right. If there is, unmute, and maximise volumes to see if it makes a difference.
From post #41
i noticed in system i had 2 sound cards listed. pipe wire and another, forgot its name
I'm not sure we have any basic information about the hardware on the machine, which could help.
Pipewire is not a sound card, rather it's a sound server that can manage sound output that the alsa software in the kernel controls at the hardware level.
To see how many sound cards you have, you can use the alsamixer program, and hit F6. Its output should show all the cards.
To see which is your default sound card at the moment you can run the following in a terminal:
Code:
aplay -L | grep -i -A2 sysdefault
And it would be helpful if you could paste the output of the above command and the following command here in code tags:
so that we know in more detail what we are dealing with.