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arenevier

Member

Registered: 2011-12-09

Posts: 5

microphone not detected.

Hi,

I have a headset/microphone plugged to the audio jack.

The headset works fine. I can hear sound well. But the microphone does not work. It does not appear in pulseaudio-plugin, or in arecord -l.

Here is the output of arecord -l. It only shows the internal microphone.

Where can I start to debug that?

Thanks a lot

% arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC285 Analog [ALC285 Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

V1del

Forum Moderator

Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,204

Re: microphone not detected.

The "internal microphone" is what provides the jack input. You are not expected to see an additional recording device, but the logics getting rewired to record from the headset if plugged in. What's your output of

amixer -c0

? Is this a single combined headset/mic jack? Sometimes that gets detected incorrectly and you could try to test different model versions like dell-headset-multi or headset-mic e.g. /etc/modprobe.d/configheadsetmodel.conf

options snd-hda-intel model=dell-headset-multi

and reboot. See https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ … xxx-models for some additional model definitions to try.

If you actually want a distinct recording device for the jack, instead of doing the model manipulation you can try to set the add_hp_mic=true codec hint: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ … figuration see also https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=283174 for the general process of applying those.