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gandem

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Registered: 2016-10-29

Posts: 3

Microphone not working

Hey !

I'm having a hard time configuring my internal microphone on my laptop. I have both alsa and pulseaudio installed.

Here are the steps I already done:
- Enable the capture channel in alsamixer
- Add stuff to /etc/modprobe.d :

Here's the line I added

options snd-hda-intel model=asus-mode5 position_fix=1 enable_msi=1 enable=yes

- Add

set-source-volume 1 300000

to /etc/pulse/default.pa

I have no idea how to debug further...

Thanks a lot !

onslow77

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Registered: 2014-09-21

Posts: 283

Re: Microphone not working

Hello!

I suggest you get the microphone to work with plain ALSA first. That way you limit the possible causes to the problem. If the michrophone does not work with ALSA, follow the ALSA troubleshooting guide. Once ALSA is working add PulseAudio to the mix, then use PulseAudio troubleshooting guide if the michrophone is not working,

Regards
Martin

Last edited by onslow77 (2016-10-29 13:57:24)

gandem

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Registered: 2016-10-29

Posts: 3

Re: Microphone not working

Hey !

Thanks a lot for your answer. I tested with alsa without pulseaudio :

While tinkering with alsamixer, as shown in the wiki I found a working configuration
- Digital set to not null
- Capture set to 85
AND
- Enabling "Internal Mic 1"

There were three mics detected for the sound card: Mic, Internal Mic, and Internal Mic 1.

Now back to pulseaudio (as I need it for gnome), installing it broke the configuration

I tried using

pacmd set-source-port alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo

to change to default capture device, but two devices are only found: Mic and Internal Mic.

I guess I need to tell pulseaudio to use Internal Mic 1 as a default capture device, but as it is not shown with pacmd, how is it possible to do this ?

Last edited by gandem (2016-10-29 16:56:08)

onslow77

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Registered: 2014-09-21

Posts: 283

Re: Microphone not working

Try this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pu … microphone

Regards
Martin

gandem

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Registered: 2016-10-29

Posts: 3

Re: Microphone not working

Already tried that. There's no "Input Source" item

onslow77

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Registered: 2014-09-21

Posts: 283

Re: Microphone not working

...There's no "Input Source" item...

Sounds like you found the/or one of the culprit. Do a search on whatever the error/output you got that tells you that "there is no input source."

Regards
Martin

Last edited by onslow77 (2016-10-29 17:37:31)