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asergio

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Registered: 2017-12-13

Posts: 9

External Microphone won't work (Combo Jack)

I have a headset connect to my laptop's (Asus G551JW) combo jack input.

Sound works fine, but the microphone is not detected at all...

Things I have tried:

• Change models on /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf (snd-hda-intel model=...).

• Using hdajackretask to assign pins as microphone.

• Installing pulseaudio to check if the microphone shows up on pavucontrol GUI.

Nothing worked. I have lost hours on this and I have no progress. The microphone works fine on windows btw.

lspci | grep -i Audio

00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller (rev 06)

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)

Any help is welcome. Thanks!

Last edited by asergio (2018-03-28 14:22:41)

jaergenoth

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Registered: 2015-01-16

Posts: 85

Re: External Microphone won't work (Combo Jack)

Is your Built-in Audio Profile set to "Analog Stereo Duplex" in pavucontrol Configuration tab?
Have you triple checked the microphone input isn't muted in alsamixer? It's not possible to mute inputs in alsamixer, it seems.
Is your audio device shown when you run (arecord is in alsa-utils package):

$ arecord -l

I've often spent hours on a problem and many times the answer was some simple thing I thought I had checked when I started...

Last edited by jaergenoth (2018-03-28 11:39:57)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,435

Re: External Microphone won't work (Combo Jack)

Please also provide/look at the outputs of

pacmd list-cards
pacmd list-sources
dmesg | grep -iE 'snd|hda|intel'
#During a recording attempt
pacmd list-source-outputs 
sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*

And please remove the superfluous call for help from the title. That someone wants help for something is usually implied on these boards already.

Last edited by V1del (2018-03-28 12:22:04)

asergio

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Registered: 2017-12-13

Posts: 9

Re: External Microphone won't work (Combo Jack)

Is your Built-in Audio Profile set to "Analog Stereo Duplex" in pavucontrol Configuration tab?
Have you triple checked the microphone input isn't muted in alsamixer? It's not possible to mute inputs in alsamixer, it seems.
Is your audio device shown when you run (arecord is in alsa-utils package):

$ arecord -l

I've often spent hours on a problem and many times the answer was some simple thing I thought I had checked when I started...

Yeah, it is set as "Analog Stereo Duplex". It isnt muted I am sure. Actually, the only mic it shows off is the internal mic, and that one works fine.
And yes, it does

$ arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC668 Analog [ALC668 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0