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ImFenyx

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Registered: 2025-08-22

Posts: 1

Lenovo Ideapad 1i 15IAU7 recongnizes my external mic but don't work

After using EasyEffects to simulate Dolby Atmos (I used these commands)

 4387  paru easy effects
 4388  paru -S calf lsp-plugins-lv2 zam-plugins-lv2 mda.lv2 yelp
 4389  paru -Rns ardour
 4395  paru -S audacity
 4396  paru -Rns ardour
 4397  bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JackHack96/PulseEffects-Presets/master/install.sh)"

The audio on the Havit H2002D headset works fine, but after that, I opened my Discord/Vesktop, and the microphone simply doesn't work. Hyprland and KDE Plasma have the same problem. I uninstalled Easy Effects, but it still didn't work. I only use pipewire/pipewire-pulse, I don't use alsa, jack, or pulseaudio. It's not working even on arecord.

killertofus

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Registered: 2025-02-10

Posts: 46

Re: Lenovo Ideapad 1i 15IAU7 recongnizes my external mic but don't work

can you test the mic via

 arecord -vv -f dat /dev/null

(alsa-utils will need to be installed, if not already installed)
or https://mictests.com/

then post

 sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*
pactl list cards
pactl list sources
pactl list source-outputs 

with a pacman -Q pipewire pipewire-audio pipewire-pulse wireplumber pipewire-v4l2

in code tags

Even if you tap the mic, you can see the activity meter in the verbose output.

side note you don't need to use paru that way, if the package is in the native repo use pacman -S to install the package same with -Rns

you shouldn’t curl to bash because the network connection could get interrupted and have disastrous consequences. It is suggested that if a script has the command rm -rf /$TMP_DIR and it get cuts off at rm -rf / the script would still be valid, and would be executed and therefore delete all your files.

your laptop is also on the lenovo page https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop … Pad_series and everything but the eithernet was tested which means that your laptop should ™ work out of the box with the mic