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mmegrebin

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Registered: 2024-10-17

Posts: 1

Cannot make my microphone work

Hello,

I am currently using Arch + PulseAudio for my audio setup. Everything works greatly (speakers, bluetooth earbuds)  but there is one thing that I cannot make work, whatever I try : my microphone.

I've seen a lot of fixes (I'll try the ones I can still remember) but nothing still. I am now doubting that my computer has a microphone since I did not try to use it in a while.

I have tried :

• Uninstalling and reinstalling Pulse

• Removing the files in .config/pulse

• Restarting the pulse services

➜  ~ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC294 Analog [ALC294 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [PL2493H]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Sorry if I am missing something, this is my first post. Does anyone have an idea on where to check ?

Regards

V1del

Forum Moderator

Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 23,196

Re: Cannot make my microphone work

Microphone you're plugging into a jack or something built-in?

What do you get from

arecord -lL
amixer -c0 
pactl list cards
pactl list sources
#During a recording attempt
sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*
pactl list source-outputs