HP Support Forum

[#1]

I purchased an HP Envy 17 3D laptop yesterday which features "beats audio".

Now I never even fired it up with Windows to be honest and immediately installed Linux on the machine.

Is there a way to enable "beats audio" from within Linux?

If not yet, can HP provide the information on how it is enabled?

I would be willing to add support to the relevant drivers if HP provides the required informatino.

Thanks!

[#2]

HP don't provide audio drivers for linux. Linux has its own audio drivers. There are two applications for audio support. Alsamixer (ALSA) and Pulse Audio...

http://pulseaudio.org/

http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page

If you need help, provide an output of:

lspci|grep Audio

[#3]

pepe,

I understand that HP isn't going to provide a driver for Linux. I got audio working on the notebook, just not the subwoofer.

My hope is that HP can share how to enable the subwoofer. If we know how it's done, we can write a driver ourselfs.

[#4]

HP is not a sound card manufacturer. You have to contact the manufacturer of the sound card to provide drivers for its products like any other hardware manufacturers do. HP put the hardware together and make working computers. Linux is an open source software and drivers and applications develop individuals or groups on its own. However, some projects like HP Linux Image Printing (HPLIP) develop hardware manufacturers themselves. In this case HP and they have done excellent work..

I think that you should ask on your linux distribution forum instead in here. I know that 5.1 sound works on linux and I'm sure that they will help you...

[#5]

For ubuntu, it is easy.

Just add this line

options snd-hda-intel model=ref

 In this file :

/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

 (sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf)

And restart your computer. It's work for me (ubuntu natty).

[#6]

FWIW this did not work on my circa feb 1 2012 envy 17.

The speakers don't seem to work with ubutnu 11.04.  Note: head phone audio works.

[#7]

Same here. Looking for a solution. Will reply back if I find something.

[#8]

I hope you find an answer for getting the speakers working under

linux.  I have an HP dm4-3050us running fedora 16 with no sound.

-M

[#9]

i am using Fedora 15 on the HP pavilion DV7 and just added the line as suggested in this thread......i am so happy that my sound has now improved an even better than my fellow other employees that are having the same laptop but using windows.

"Some of us were born for open source"