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barnd3

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Registered: 2023-02-07

Posts: 151

spa.alsa: Failed to set volume of 'Mic': Das Argument ist ungültig

I use an Asus Xonar DGX sound card.
It is also recognized and produces sound.
However, I get the following message, which is probably related to "wireplumber"

spa.alsa: Failed to set volume of 'Mic': Das Argument ist ungültig

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 24,094

Re: spa.alsa: Failed to set volume of 'Mic': Das Argument ist ungültig

Is something not working? If not Ignore it. That sound card and it's driver has some special controls and wireplumber trying to control the "default" of a Mic is likely running into troubles here that aren't going to matter in the long run.

barnd3

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Registered: 2023-02-07

Posts: 151

Re: spa.alsa: Failed to set volume of 'Mic': Das Argument ist ungültig

The microphone does not work.
Otherwise the card works perfectly

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 24,094

Re: spa.alsa: Failed to set volume of 'Mic': Das Argument ist ungültig

As said the card is weird, if you plug a mic into the front panel, you actually have a "physical" switch to switch between the back panel outputs and the front panel out/inputs, check

amixer -c0 #or whatever the index of aplay -l gives you for the card

whether you can flip the channel mode from "Multichannel" to Headphones+FP and whether that makes a difference for the mic ... potentially at the cost of the speakers if they're at the back.

barnd3

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Registered: 2023-02-07

Posts: 151

Re: spa.alsa: Failed to set volume of 'Mic': Das Argument ist ungültig

amixer -c0
Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 255
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 240 [94%] [-7.39dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 240 [94%] [-7.39dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Front Mic',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined cswitch-exclusive
  Capture exclusive group: 0
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture -24 - 24
  Front Left: Capture 24 [100%] [12.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 24 [100%] [12.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Line',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined cswitch-exclusive
  Capture exclusive group: 0
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture -24 - 24
  Front Left: Capture 24 [100%] [12.00dB] [off]
  Front Right: Capture 24 [100%] [12.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined cswitch-exclusive
  Capture exclusive group: 0
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture -24 - 24
  Front Left: Capture 232 [533%] [12.00dB] [off]
  Front Right: Capture 0 [50%] [0.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Loopback',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Validity Check',0
  Capabilities: cswitch cswitch-joined
  Capture channels: Mono
  Mono: Capture [off]
Simple mixer control 'Aux',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined cswitch-exclusive
  Capture exclusive group: 0
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture -24 - 24
  Front Left: Capture 0 [50%] [0.00dB] [off]
  Front Right: Capture 0 [50%] [0.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'ADC High-pass Filter',0
  Capabilities: cenum
  Items: 'Active' 'Frozen'
  Item0: 'Active'
Simple mixer control 'Analog Input Monitor',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 1
  Mono: Playback 1 [100%] [0.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Analog Output',0
  Capabilities: penum
  Items: 'Stereo Headphones' 'Stereo Headphones FP' 'Multichannel'
  Item0: 'Stereo Headphones FP'
Simple mixer control 'Digital Input Monitor',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 1
  Mono: Playback 0 [0%] [-6.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Stereo Upmixing',0
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: 'Front' 'Front+Surround'
  Item0: 'Front'

I have also connected the cable to the rear off/on input, but the microphone does not work.

Last edited by barnd3 (2024-06-28 18:28:15)