As many of you know I have thrown myself into Ubuntu and I have been actively trying to get myself more familiar with Linux, to force me into this and with the world opening up a little more I have dual booted my Razer laptop with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 21.04 with most of the time spent in the Ubuntu OS.
An issue I had though was around audio, firstly it was actually getting my AirPods working on Ubuntu. This was an easy fix to deal with the below being the quick fix.
Set
ControllerMode = bredr
or
ControllerMode = dual
by editing
/etc/bluetooth/main.conf
file using
sudo nano /etc/bluetooth/main.conf
command (or another text editor of your choice)
sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth restart
Now we have some audio coming through the AirPods but it was then super quiet compared to what I am getting when the AirPods are joined to my iPhone or iPad for example.
Step 1 – Open your terminal
Step 2 – Install PavuControl
sudo apt install pavucontrol
Step 3 – Open PulseAudio Volume Control by running the following command in your terminal
pavucontrol
Step 4 – Adjust your Output devices until you get better audio output.
You can see from the above that by default you are going to be set to 100% but then I dragged mine to 153% to give the best output I could get on the laptop, at least now I can hear everything I am listening to or watching.
I have put this together as this might help someone else with a Razer laptop or possibly anyone with Ubuntu running on their laptop. But also this works as a great reference for me if down the line I have to reinstall or change my distribution.
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