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BobdaBiscuit

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Registered: 2013-07-06

Posts: 2

USB Audio Broken, Microphone stuck at 0

Recently my HyperX Cloud 2 USB headphones decided to stop working with Arch.
Pulse is unable to detect them without it being removed then plugged in again, and also spits out "Your kernel driver is broken: it reports a volume range from 0 to 0 which makes no sense.".
Uninstalling Pulse, Alsa finds the headset fine and starts outputting audio, however the microphone still does not work.

amixer outputs:

Simple mixer control 'Sidetone',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 4096
  Mono: Playback 1687 [41%] [6.58dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Headset',0
  Capabilities: pvolume cvolume cvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 55 Capture 0 - 0
  Mono: Capture 0 [0%] [on]
  Front Left: Playback 17 [31%] [-33.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 17 [31%] [-33.00dB] [on]

I believe the "Capture" channel is the microphone, it has somehow managed to become undefined and unable to be set to anything other than 0.

First time having something this borked so if anyone needs any more terminal outputs let me know.
Any help is appreciated.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,671

Re: USB Audio Broken, Microphone stuck at 0

Well try to verify what pulseaudio assumes to be the case. Can you try with the LTS kernel? If it works you might want to submit a bug report against your headset.