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TimSousa

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Registered: 2023-02-25

Posts: 38

[SOLVED] Microphone not working on internal headphone jack

For some reason my headset's mic isn't working when I plug it into my laptops built-in headphone jack. I had the same issues back when I was on mint, and it seems like the issue is still here on arch. I used to ignore it because it works with my external sound card, but now that I actually need to carry my laptop arround, having to bring my external sound card is a pain in the ass
It works fine on windows, so I'm not quite sure what the problem is.. maybe something related with the mic pin?
Here's the output of journalctl -b

solved: setting

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

on /etc/modprobe.d/hdamodel.conf fixed the issue.

Last edited by TimSousa (2023-07-13 20:08:59)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 23,905

Re: [SOLVED] Microphone not working on internal headphone jack

That's only user session journal and relatively useless since the problem here is most likely kernel/codec related.

If this laptop still uses the HDA codec (by default if you force this with a dmic_detect=0 dsp_driver=1 module option, guess what the dmic_detect=0 stands for) you might get this workable by trying different HDA model options https://docs.kernel.org/sound/hd-audio/models.html some popular ones to test are dell-headset-multi or headset-mic which you can configure in a /etc/modprobe.d/hdamodel.conf

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

for example.

If you need more help, which laptop is this exactly and post a system journal by using

sudo journalctl -b

TimSousa

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Registered: 2023-02-25

Posts: 38

Re: [SOLVED] Microphone not working on internal headphone jack

I remeber trying many of those and none working back when I was on mint
I still tried those popular ones you mentioned and all the codecs that had alc255 in the name, and still nothing worked
My laptop is the Gigabyte AORUS 15P KD 993AD
Here's the output of sudo journalctl -b

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Microphone not working on internal headphone jack

You have two audio cards, you might've applied the model to the wrong one depending on detection order. what do you get from

aplay -l
amixer -c0

TimSousa

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Registered: 2023-02-25

Posts: 38

Re: [SOLVED] Microphone not working on internal headphone jack

I'm pretty sure the external sound card was unplugged when I tried those codecs, still, I'll provide the requested info when I get to my pc