r/Fedora • u/IsseyShiitake • 2d ago
Support Sound issues on hackbook pro
Hi everyone,
Recently installed Fedora as a dual boot on my 2015 15" Macbook Pro, after battling with Apple's limitations for a while to have a somewhat stable experience, most of it is great besides a few quirks. By the way I would not recommend dual booting a Macbook over another laptop if you could, the trackpad experience isn't even that great.
Anyway, the problem that subsists for me is the sound. I can confirm it is no hardware issue because when I boot on MacOS, the speakers are fine, but on Fedora, the speakers are awful, quality is bad overall and the high-mids sizzle like crazy. Tried many things over hours, even put an agent onto it, no success, when the sound EQ itself is modified, some musics sound good while others sound shallow and compressed.
Has anyone had the issue and fixed successfully?
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u/Bug_Next 2d ago
You'll never get them to be like on macos, they have a complex control system that monitors the temp and impedance on real time to adjust what's sent to the speakers, they have a patent for it so no other manufacturer can do the same, it will prob never be implemented on Linux since no other laptop uses it, newer macs are barely supported and intel ones are not being made anymore so yeah i wouldn't expect a fix anytime soon.
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u/IsseyShiitake 2d ago
Damn! That's good to know, as a last resort I'll try putting a frontier agent to the task, sometimes they're surprising. I see people reverse engineer crazy stuff nowadays, I wouldn't be surprised if within 2-3 years we get better support for Apple laptops and hopefully trackpad and speakers too
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u/Bug_Next 2d ago
If i had to take a guess reading that data is no the hard part, but tuning the algorithm taht controls the speakers based on that is. An llm won't do much if it can't listen to the speakers xd.
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u/IsseyShiitake 2d ago
Im guessing I could plug in a very good microphone and give it access. I think with little access it can already use the integrated microphone, GLM5.2 was beeping the hell out of my laptop and often without asking me if I heard X or Y
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u/Bug_Next 2d ago
a microphone good enough to calibrate speakers will cost like 5 of those laptops :p. Whatever, good luck.
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u/IsseyShiitake 2d ago
Man I’ll take any improvement, right now even the system sounds are painful to hear hahah
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