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CRN110

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Arch won't recognise headset mic through combo jack

Laptop model is acer Aspire E5-573G. It uses a combo jack which would allow for line in, headphones, headsets, microphones, etc when it had windows. Switched and only now realised that I can't use my headset with the mic. What to do to fix this?

Last edited by CRN110 (2020-02-02 20:25:44)

V1del

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Re: Arch won't recognise headset mic through combo jack

What have you tried? Post in [ code ] [ /code ] tags without the spaces

uname -a
arecord -lL
amixer -c$index of correct card from arecord here$
#if pulse and during a recording attempt
pacmd list-cards
pacmd list-sources
pacmd list-source-outputs

Last edited by V1del (2020-02-03 16:51:20)

CRN110

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Re: Arch won't recognise headset mic through combo jack

Linux LAPTOP-LVT7RAQ 4.19.99-1-lts #1 SMP Mon, 27 Jan 2020 21:30:28 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
jack
    JACK Audio Connection Kit
default
    Default ALSA Output (currently PulseAudio Sound Server)
usbstream:CARD=HDMI
    HDA Intel HDMI
    USB Stream Output
sysdefault:CARD=PCH
    HDA Intel PCH, ALC255 Analog
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, ALC255 Analog
    Front speakers
usbstream:CARD=PCH
    HDA Intel PCH
    USB Stream Output
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
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  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',1
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',2
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',3
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',4
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
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Simple mixer control 'Master',0
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Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
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  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-65.25dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Speaker',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
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  Limits: Playback 0 - 87
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  Front Left: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
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  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
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  Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost',0
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  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
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  Front Left: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Beep',0
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  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
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  Front Left: Capture 39 [62%] [12.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 39 [62%] [12.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Auto-Mute Mode',0
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: 'Disabled' 'Enabled'
  Item0: 'Enabled'
Simple mixer control 'Loopback Mixing',0
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: 'Disabled' 'Enabled'
  Item0: 'Disabled'

2 card(s) available.
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0 source output(s) available.

These are the outputs of the commands you posted.
I've tried checking in pavucontrol, alsa-mixer, and checking if the audio settings were set to stereo duplex.
Also, this isn't exactly a headset, it's more of a 3.5mm splitter with a mic and a pair of mobile earphones attached so the female connecter makes it function like a headset.

The Loko

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Registered: 2014-07-23

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Re: Arch won't recognise headset mic through combo jack

I'm trying to get mic working too on my ASUS with ALC3236 codec.
What's your sound card codec?

 cat /proc/asound/card*/codec* | grep Codec 

V1del

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Re: Arch won't recognise headset mic through combo jack

His codec is ALC255 as shown in the aplay output

@CRN110 Nothing immediately obvious here, technically a mic is there but that might mean the laptop internal one rather than the external mic you've plugged, fwiw you could increase the volume on that. Something you should try is test a newer kernel, as afaik there has been quite some work on combined jack support in newer, non 4.19 kernel releases.

CRN110

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Posts: 18

Re: Arch won't recognise headset mic through combo jack

Yeah pretty sure it points to the internal one. New kernel? I guess I'll switch from lts to stable linux... But then packages like nvidia-lits need to be changed to, eh, I'll update as soon as I change it. Thanks for the help so far!

Edit: Any kernels you'd specifically recommend?

Last edited by CRN110 (2020-02-04 14:08:11)

V1del

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Re: Arch won't recognise headset mic through combo jack

No just something that's more up to date, the LTS kernel is over a year old from a hardware/feature support perspective (FWIW it will likely be replaced by the new 5.4 kernel that's intended to be next LTS soonish). Unless you are strapped for space on your /boot you don't need to actually switch anything and can simply install the non-LTS kernel in addition to the LTS kernel (generally good idea to have something to fall back to if a kernel fails for whatever reason) as for nvidia - unsurprsingly - in addition to the nvidia-lts package there's a nvidia package, which is the same package but built for the stable/current rather than the LTS kernel.

CRN110

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Re: Arch won't recognise headset mic through combo jack

Hmm, okay, have a resource for switching? Never switched to the non-LTS official kernel so unsure about the steps. Also, will nvidia-dkms work for both of them?

V1del

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Re: Arch won't recognise headset mic through combo jack

Install the kernel, reconfigure/adjust your boot loader config (the wiki has information on how to do that for every loader), done. Yes nvidia-dkms will work for both of them but will entail some overhead during installation as the module will be built on your machine for the respective kernels (and you have to install the respective kernel's headers before switching to nvidia-dkms) FWIW there's no conflict between nvidia and nvidia-lts you can install them simultaneously if you are only switching between these two kernels.

Last edited by V1del (2020-02-04 17:00:42)

The Loko

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Re: Arch won't recognise headset mic through combo jack

It's a good idea to try the stable kernel, but you could also try with the snd-hda-intel module options.
Create the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf with following contents:

options snd-hda-intel model=dell-headset-multi

Maybe that model won't work for you, you can try different models from here: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ … xxx-models
For example I would try with 'alc255-acer'

Source: https://superuser.com/questions/1312970 … sa/1329331

You could also try with this approach using hdajackretask from alsa-tools package: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1078911 … ernal-does

None of these methods worked on my 2 laptops though.

CRN110

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Re: Arch won't recognise headset mic through combo jack

Just saw the post above me. I tried those things, but the .conf edit did not change anything seemingly. Does ALSA even use the file? I even tried different ones, such as headset-mic and the one for aspire. No avail. I pretty much changed all unused ports to microphone with hdajackretask. Now it does give another option in pavucontrol, but despite plugging in the headset, it says the mic is unplugged.

Last edited by CRN110 (2020-02-05 09:12:46)

CRN110

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Re: Arch won't recognise headset mic through combo jack

Right so I followed through with everything an additionally added the snd-hda-intel module options with /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf by writing it out on the top as well with the actual suggestion by Loko as an experiment. Nothing changed. Mind you, I recall that I had to create the alsa-base.conf file, so I doubt changing that would make a difference since it seems like alsa does not use it. What now?

Also, hdajackretask does not give me a headset option in the gui for the jack (I don't mean unconnected pins). I was wondering that if there was a way to somehow make it change to headset, it would work? But how to do that?

EDIT: hdajackretask gives the option to choose modem handset with advanced configuration for the headphone jack (again, not unconnected pins), is it worth a try? I'm unsure to blindly switch since if I did that with something like line in, it would kill my headset.

Last edited by CRN110 (2020-02-05 17:33:50)

V1del

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Re: Arch won't recognise headset mic through combo jack

See your other thread regarding the .conf file.

It isn't going to kill anything everything you set in hdajackretask is easily revertable, so it might be worth a shot.

CRN110

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Re: Arch won't recognise headset mic through combo jack

So, anything I've tried so far hasn't worked. Any more suggestions? The .conf file didn't change anything and hdajackretask didn't work either..

CRN110

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Re: Arch won't recognise headset mic through combo jack

I tried to mess around with QJackCtl but to no avail