The audio quality on the XPS15 9530 is god awful. The speakers sound beautiful on windows, but absolute dog on Linux. People seem to be having this issue over multiple distros, I believe it is an ongoing issue.
The only bit of info I have that may be useful is that the XPS15 9530 uses the Realtek ALC3281 codec, however, there are multiple places in the kernel and throughout my system where the ALC298 is referenced, which is the chip that was used in the XPS15 9510 and 9520 (I think). THe ALC3281 does not seem to appear on any of my logs, but the ALC298 is everywhere. I hope that information is useful.
This might be useful: https://www.reddit.com/r/DellXPS/commen … io_issues/
This is a kernel patch I found for the 9530, but it doesn't seem to work:https://www.spinics.net/lists/alsa-devel/msg161419.html
This is a bugzilla report of people having the same issue: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217906
Kernel:
6.5.7-arch1-1
If anyone has any information that might help, please share.
Please let me know if you want any more information.
Asked by marc.soda
(203 rep)
Oct 13, 2023, 01:52 AM
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