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tom.ty89

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Registered: 2012-11-15

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Re: SOLVED! [ALSA] Microphone doesn't work

Nah it has nothing to do with HDMI sound. It's a port switch within a input device. For some devices they corresponds to switches in alsamixer, like my Xonar STX.

You mean you see two options in the Port drop list in pavucontrol? If so they are just the same thing as what pacmd listed. (FWIW, pacmd is a "stock" command line to control pulseaudio.)

paulkerry

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From: Sheffield, UK

Registered: 2014-10-02

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Re: SOLVED! [ALSA] Microphone doesn't work

Have you tried this...

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

Admicos

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Registered: 2014-12-09

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Re: SOLVED! [ALSA] Microphone doesn't work

Have you tried this...

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

Where should i put that line? I put it at the end of the file but it didn't do anything

tom.ty89

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Re: SOLVED! [ALSA] Microphone doesn't work

By the way I assumed you already tried maxing out the Internal Mic Boost sliders and tune the Mic Boost sliders to 0?

Did the microphone ever worked with headphone plugged in btw? I am a bit concern that maybe it "assume" you would use external mic when you use headphone.

paulkerry

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From: Sheffield, UK

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Re: SOLVED! [ALSA] Microphone doesn't work

at the end of the file should be fine - did you restart pulse (or reboot) after changing that file?

Admicos

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Re: SOLVED! [ALSA] Microphone doesn't work

By the way I assumed you already tried maxing out the Internal Mic Boost sliders and tune the Mic Boost sliders to 0?

Did the microphone ever worked with headphone plugged in btw? I am a bit concern that maybe it "assume" you would use external mic when you use headphone.

Well, the headphones were always plugged in.

And maxing out Internal mic didn't work.

Admicos

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Re: SOLVED! [ALSA] Microphone doesn't work

at the end of the file should be fine - did you restart pulse (or reboot) after changing that file?

Yes, i restarted pulse using

pulseaudio -k
pulseaudio --start

paulkerry

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From: Sheffield, UK

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Re: SOLVED! [ALSA] Microphone doesn't work

I can't think of anything else at the moment that might be causing your issue. Perhaps you could try booting using a linux live disk and check that your microphone hardware works ok?

Admicos

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Registered: 2014-12-09

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Re: SOLVED! [ALSA] Microphone doesn't work

I can't think of anything else at the moment that might be causing your issue. Perhaps you could try booting using a linux live disk and check that your microphone hardware works ok?

I just booted my Linux Mint USB and the mic works perfectly there.

Admicos

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Re: SOLVED! [ALSA] Microphone doesn't work

GUYSGUYSGUYSGUYS I figured it out!

I just ran

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

(tom.ty89's command, modified) And it worked like magic!

Thanks for the help.

tom.ty89

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Registered: 2012-11-15

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Re: SOLVED! [ALSA] Microphone doesn't work

I thought you already tested the command on both ports...

Anyway, grats.