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I installed arch several times on my old computer having ASROCK G31M-VS3 as motherboard with 4GB of RAM DDR3 and Intel Celeron @2.6GHz and Nvidia GeForce GT240 but I am constantly having problem with input audio: my microphone is detected by the system but it doesn't produce any input, as if it didn't work. I have a headset with microphone and headphones all in one. I have SOF firmware installed on the computer.
$ inxi -aA
Audio:
Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio vendor: ASRock
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:27d8
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 2 link-max: lanes: 16 bus-ID: 04:00.1
chip-ID: 10de:0be4 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.8.7-arch1-1 status: kernel-api
tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl$ wpctl status
PipeWire 'pipewire-0' [1.0.5, detectivekaktus@arch, cookie:1739160508]
└─ Clients:
31. WirePlumber [1.0.5, detectivekaktus@arch, pid:428]
32. pipewire [1.0.5, detectivekaktus@arch, pid:429]
45. WirePlumber [export] [1.0.5, detectivekaktus@arch, pid:428]
57. Firefox [1.0.5, detectivekaktus@arch, pid:468]
63. wpctl [1.0.5, detectivekaktus@arch, pid:1074]
Audio
├─ Devices:
│ 46. High Definition Audio Controller [alsa]
│ 47. Built-in Audio [alsa]
│
├─ Sinks:
│ * 52. Built-in Audio Analog Stereo [vol: 1.00]
│
├─ Sources:
│ * 53. Built-in Audio Analog Stereo [vol: 1.00]
│
├─ Filters:
│
└─ Streams:
58. Firefox
60. output_FL > VT1705 Analog:playback_FL [active]
62. output_FR > VT1705 Analog:playback_FR [active]
Video
├─ Devices:
│
├─ Sinks:
│
├─ Sources:
│
├─ Filters:
│
└─ Streams:
Settings
└─ Default Configured Devices:$ arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: VT1705 Analog [VT1705 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0$ systemctl status --user pipewire-pulse.service pipewire.service wireplumber.service
● pipewire-pulse.service - PipeWire PulseAudio
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire-pulse.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Fri 2024-04-26 15:03:47 CEST; 12min ago
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire-pulse.socket
Main PID: 429 (pipewire-pulse)
Tasks: 3 (limit: 4632)
Memory: 10.2M (peak: 10.7M)
CPU: 3.644s
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pipewire-pulse.service
└─429 /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse
Apr 26 15:03:47 arch systemd[419]: Started PipeWire PulseAudio.
Apr 26 15:03:48 arch pipewire-pulse[429]: mod.rt: RTKit error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown
Apr 26 15:03:48 arch pipewire-pulse[429]: mod.rt: RTKit does not give us MaxRealtimePriority, using 1
Apr 26 15:03:48 arch pipewire-pulse[429]: mod.rt: RTKit error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown
Apr 26 15:03:48 arch pipewire-pulse[429]: mod.rt: RTKit does not give us MinNiceLevel, using 0
Apr 26 15:03:48 arch pipewire-pulse[429]: mod.rt: RTKit error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown
Apr 26 15:03:48 arch pipewire-pulse[429]: mod.rt: RTKit does not give us RTTimeUSecMax, using -1
● pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Fri 2024-04-26 15:03:47 CEST; 12min ago
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire.socket
Main PID: 427 (pipewire)
Tasks: 3 (limit: 4632)
Memory: 9.4M (peak: 11.3M)
CPU: 2.142s
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pipewire.service
└─427 /usr/bin/pipewire
Apr 26 15:03:47 arch systemd[419]: Started PipeWire Multimedia Service.
Apr 26 15:03:48 arch pipewire[427]: mod.rt: RTKit error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown
Apr 26 15:03:48 arch pipewire[427]: mod.rt: RTKit does not give us MaxRealtimePriority, using 1
Apr 26 15:03:48 arch pipewire[427]: mod.rt: RTKit error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown
Apr 26 15:03:48 arch pipewire[427]: mod.rt: RTKit does not give us MinNiceLevel, using 0
Apr 26 15:03:48 arch pipewire[427]: mod.rt: RTKit error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown
Apr 26 15:03:48 arch pipewire[427]: mod.rt: RTKit does not give us RTTimeUSecMax, using -1
● wireplumber.service - Multimedia Service Session Manager
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/wireplumber.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Fri 2024-04-26 15:03:47 CEST; 12min ago
Main PID: 428 (wireplumber)
Tasks: 7 (limit: 4632)
Memory: 14.8M (peak: 16.7M)
CPU: 565ms
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/wireplumber.service
└─428 /usr/bin/wireplumber
Apr 26 15:03:48 arch wireplumber[428]: RTKit does not give us MaxRealtimePriority, using 1
Apr 26 15:03:48 arch wireplumber[428]: RTKit error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown
Apr 26 15:03:48 arch wireplumber[428]: RTKit does not give us MinNiceLevel, using 0
Apr 26 15:03:48 arch wireplumber[428]: RTKit error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown
Apr 26 15:03:48 arch wireplumber[428]: RTKit does not give us RTTimeUSecMax, using -1
Apr 26 15:03:51 arch wireplumber[428]: Failed to get percentage from UPower: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner
Apr 26 15:03:51 arch wireplumber[428]: BlueZ system service is not available
Apr 26 15:03:51 arch wireplumber[428]: [0:00:35.450182287] [428] ERROR IPAModule ipa_module.cpp:172 Symbol ipaModuleInfo not found
Apr 26 15:03:51 arch wireplumber[428]: [0:00:35.450381246] [428] ERROR IPAModule ipa_module.cpp:292 v4l2-compat.so: IPA module has no valid info
Apr 26 15:03:51 arch wireplumber[428]: [0:00:35.450675258] [428] INFO Camera camera_manager.cpp:284 libcamera v0.2.0I think it's a hardware problem because on Windows this motherboard refuses to work without the right driver installed which is available only for Windows on the manufacture website down below https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/G41M-VS3/index.us.asp
Also, the microphone doesn't work with other devices.
I tried:
1. installing other linux distributions and they all appear to have the same issue.
2. changing headset to other ones but it didn't change the situation.
3. chaing the config file in the /etc/modprobe.d/ path.
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