Audio plays from both sources (speaker - headphones). Mic is abnormal

nukedefuser · 2024-09-14 14:52:41

As the title says. I'm using Dell Vostro 2420. A laptop with Cirrus Audio Card (CS4213 - Recognized by kernel). And I installed it to USB, following by the wiki.

Repeating the steps I did

- Play an audio sample (on any apps, including firefox, vlc, telegram-desktop,...)
=> Audio plays on main speaker (nice!)
- Plug my 3,5mm headphones to the jack
=> Audio plays to both sources. (ok, what's happening?)
- Eject the jack
=> Audio plays on main speakers (hmm?)

What have I did with ArchLinux Installation?

- Select plasma, pipewire in `archinstall`
- Install and wait for it
- Boo! chroot and modify some stuff for USB, along with tune2fs to disable journal, e2fsck!
- Boot, and plays some music
=> Found out this thing

What about Bluetooth device?

Yup, not related, but I noticed that if I connected to my speaker, the laptop's speaker mutes, and all sounds are now from speaker.
idk
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The image above looks absolutely normal. But, if I plug my headphones in, another option for headphone should shows up, too. But, no. It just switch the name.

Since you installed on USB, you probably installed some conflicts packages as wiki says

Nope. I have a school PC that is allowed for personal use, and I really tried to boot. That works, of course, and if I plug the headphones to the front panel, Boo! It mutes the main speakers and plays through the headset. And that PC is using Realtek. More example, like my friend desktop, it boots, and if I plug the headphones, it shows multiple options like Back speaker, back microphone, Front headphones, Front microphone. (I don't really remember abt his card brand, but it works)

Now, what's the problem with Mic you mentioned on title?

Well it doesn't used by default
If I click on the Audio devices panel, the mic should be automatically toggled on for the live output status (i mean the line that describe how loud is the mic being used)
But, it just remains muted. It is a big problem for me to use Telegram.
Well, it kinda easy to toggle, I explored that while I'm in call, just simply toggle the mic to be muted, and unmute it from the Audio devices panel section.

Have you found any fixes on speakers?

Sort of(?) A reddit post user said they got the same problem. And it is fixed after they install alsa-utils, alsa-tools and alsa-plugins, execute alsamixer, and select auto-mute.
I tried that, it works! But every time I disconnect headphones, then after a while, connect it back, it still plays on both sources. I have tried saving settings to it, but that doesn't help. I have a suspicious at the default speaker that the kernel selected. Because in alsamixer, I have to select my sound card device manually, while default device is kind of limited, and
Card: PipeWire
Chip: PipeWire
Hmm, what in the world??
I have tried following the ArchWiki site, and that doesn't work, too.

That's all, I hope these will help. Do I need to provide anything like logs?
Please tell me.

V1del · 2024-09-14 16:44:40

Enable the auto-mute settings and run

sudo alsactl store

afterwards, that should ensure this setting sticks around (potentially do the same for the mic)

nukedefuser · 2024-09-15 06:49:17

V1del wrote:

Enable the auto-mute settings and run
sudo alsactl store
afterwards, that should ensure this setting sticks around (potentially do the same for the mic)

Tried, it works for once, of course, as I said on the post.
And even after reboot, it doesn't even care, but I have to manually enable auto-mute.

Arch Linux

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