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ld_40

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Registered: 2024-07-02

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] External USB Microphone Not Detected

So I have a USB PnP Microphone from Fifine that stopped being detected by my laptop. It is odd since it worked a week ago just fine and my other arch installation on my other machine detects it just fine. I have no real clue how to go about even solving this and I would like to avoid reinstalling arch or at least leave that as a last resort. I also would like to mention my internal microphone works fine.

This is what I get when I do:

inxi -Fxz

System:
  Kernel: 6.9.7-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.1.1
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.1.1 Distro: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 82JW v: Legion 5 15ACH6
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0T76465 WIN
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO v: HHCN36WW date: 12/07/2023
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 60.5 Wh (100.0%) condition: 60.5/60.0 Wh (100.9%)
    volts: 17.4 min: 15.4 model: Celxpert L20C4PC0 status: full
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse
    charge: 55% (should be ignored) status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: 6-core model: AMD Ryzen 5 5600H with Radeon Graphics bits: 64
    type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3 rev: 0 cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 3 MiB L3: 16 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 686 high: 1696 min/max: 400/4280 cores: 1: 400 2: 400
    3: 1696 4: 400 5: 400 6: 400 7: 400 8: 400 9: 1397 10: 400 11: 1542 12: 400
    bogomips: 79080
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GA107BM [GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile] vendor: Lenovo
    driver: nvidia v: 555.58 arch: Ampere bus-ID: 01:00.0
  Device-2: Bison Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB bus-ID: 1-3:3
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.13 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.0 driver: X:
    loaded: N/A unloaded: modesetting failed: nvidia gpu: nvidia
    resolution: 1920x1080~120Hz
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: kms_swrast,nvidia,swrast platforms:
    active: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device inactive: wayland,device-1
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 555.58
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop
    GPU/PCIe/SSE2
  API: Vulkan v: 1.3.279 drivers: nvidia surfaces: xcb,xlib devices: 1
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1
  Device-2: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor vendor: Lenovo driver: N/A
    bus-ID: 06:00.5
  Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 06:00.6
  API: ALSA v: k6.9.7-arch1-1 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.2.0 status: active
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Lenovo driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 1000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX210/AX1675 2x2 [Typhoon Peak] driver: iwlwifi
    v: kernel bus-ID: 04:00.0
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX210 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB bus-ID: 3-4:2
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.3
    lmp-v: 12
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 40.78 GiB (3.5%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Crucial model: CT1000P3PSSD8 size: 931.51 GiB
    temp: 27.9 C
  ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVLQ256HAJD-000H1
    size: 238.47 GiB temp: 23.9 C
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 232.69 GiB used: 40.67 GiB (17.5%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme1n1p2
  ID-2: /boot size: 1022 MiB used: 108.3 MiB (10.6%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme1n1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 4 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 41.9 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 35 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Memory: total: 24 GiB available: 23.33 GiB used: 2.89 GiB (12.4%)
  Processes: 270 Uptime: 33m Init: systemd
  Packages: 1197 Compilers: gcc: 14.1.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.26 inxi: 3.3.35

And with

arecord -l

**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 1: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 0: ALC287 Analog [ALC287 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

I find it strange since on my other machine that does detect it just fine, it detects it and shows me for the device:

Device-5: JMTek LLC. USB PnP Audio Device
driver: hid-generic, snd-usb-audio, usbhid type: USB bus-ID: 5-2:2

Last edited by ld_40 (2024-07-03 18:56:24)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] External USB Microphone Not Detected

lsusb
sudo dmesg | grep usb

ld_40

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Registered: 2024-07-02

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] External USB Microphone Not Detected

As I was about to do this, I had thought of doing:

 sudo pacman -Syu 

and it just got fixed...?

I have no idea why that fixed it but it did...