Ubuntu – HP Envy m6 Subwoofer Beats Audio not working

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I have an HP Envy m6-n010dx.Running Elementary(Ubuntu 14.04)This is an AMD based model,which includes Beats Audio in the form of 2 speakers and an integrated subwoofer.
It uses Realtek ALC3241 sound card/chip.I can not get the subwoofer to work at all,and the sound is laughable compaired to Beats on Windows 8.
I have read many posts regarding this and have tried many of the suggestions,such as adding options snd-hda-intel model=ref to alsa-base.conf,enabled lfe remixing,
and changed the amount of sample channels.WHen using HDAJackRetask,I set one of the unconected pins to LFE Speaker,and Alsamixer shows a bass speaker that can be muted or unmuted,but there is no volume level for it,and no change to my sound.Depending on the pins I connect,different things show up in alsamixer,but they have no volume levels,only mute or output.I feel like I've tried everything,and any help would be appreiated.Let me know if you'd like to see my aplay or lspci | Audio outputs.
Thanks in advance.

Best Answer

Here's what I did to solve my issue with the subwoofer.

  1. I searched for ALSA Tools in software manager. Do note, ALSA Tools now have HDAJackRetask packed into it.

  2. I installed ALSA Tools from the search result. Fired up HDAJackRetask. Selected ALC3241. Here I noticed my Pin IDs were set up as below:

Pin 0x12 = internal mic Pin 0x14 = internal speaker Pin 0x15 = headphone Pin 0x1a = microphone

  1. To activate the subwoofer, all I had to do is select 'Show unconnected pins', override Pin ID: 0x17 to Internal speaker(LFE) and click apply now. I checked the sound output using VLC/Rythmbox/Videos. Finally I clicked Install boot override to make the setting permanent.
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