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Kopkins

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Registered: 2012-07-01

Posts: 189

Can't get input from microphone

I haven't ever needed to use the microphone on my laptop, but recently I have been needing it. I can't seem to get it working though. Laptop is a Lenovo E545. It's worth mentioning that when I got this computer a year ago, the mic would work during an occasional skype call.

I followed this https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ad … microphone

Which led me here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ad … Microphone
Even looked at the external links in this section

and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ad … ot_working

Basically I went into alsamixer and enabled the capture channels, that didn't seem to have any effect. Then tried passing msi_enable=1 to the snd-hda-intel module, but that didn't do anything either. It looks like I'm missing 'Mic' in alsamixer, and amixer outputs only 'Master' and 'Capture'.

In pauvcontrol there are no Input devices either.

Tested to see if the mic is working by

arecord -d 5 foo.wav
aplay foo.wav

Not sure what I should try next.

include4eto

Member

Registered: 2014-05-09

Posts: 4

Re: Can't get input from microphone

Do you have pulseaudio-alsa installed?
Check out this link from the wiki.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pu … figuration

Also, can you paste the output of

arecord -l

Kopkins

Member

Registered: 2012-07-01

Posts: 189

Re: Can't get input from microphone

I have seen that page and pulseaudio-alsa is already installed.

arecord -l

**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 0: CX20590 Analog [CX20590 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0