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da4ce

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Registered: 2025-09-13

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Microphone not detecting on dell inspiron

Hey everyone. im using vanilla arch rn and for some reason, my microphone isnt being recognized at all. ik its not a hardware issue as it was working fine until i installed arch( i used fedora before)

Im currently using a dell inspiron 15 5510. running vanilla arch with gnome

lspci -nnk | grep -A3 Audio

00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller [8086:a0c8] (rev 30)

`Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0b24]`

`Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel`

`Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel, snd_soc_avs, snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl`

sudo dmesg | grep -i audio

[ 4.178984] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops intel_audio_component_bind_ops [i915])

[ 4.595075] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: ALC3204: picked fixup (pin match)

[ 4.627507] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: autoconfig for ALC3204: line_outs=1 (0x14/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0) type:speaker

[ 4.627525] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)

[ 4.627533] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: hp_outs=1 (0x21/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)

[ 4.627540] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: mono: mono_out=0x0

[ 4.627545] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: inputs:

[ 4.627551] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: Headset Mic=0x19

[ 4.627558] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: Headphone Mic=0x1a

inxi -A

Audio:

Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio driver: snd_hda_intel

API: ALSA v: k6.16.5-arch1-1 status: kernel-api

Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.7 status: active

Please help fix this.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,146

Re: Microphone not detecting on dell inspiron

That system should not be using snd-hda-intel by default. Post an entire ungrepped dmesg or better yet

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

you're not setting a kernel param to the tune of dmic_detect=0 (guess what dmic stands for) or snd-intel-dspcfg=1 right? make sure that isn't the case and that the sof-firmware package is installed.

Last edited by V1del (2025-09-16 23:39:29)