Microphone doesn't work on Garuda, but on Windows works fine

Issues & Assistance
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I am using a laptop on dual-boot. When I installed Garuda the microphone was working and everything was fine, but soon enough i realized that the microphone doesn't work, and I don't know when the change ocurred. When I am using headphones with microphone, or with the laptop's mic, this only records white noise and nothing more, no reaction when i make sound, nothing. I suspected that the change was beacuse I swiched from pulseaudio to pipewire, but I restored a timeshift snapshot before that and the microphone still didn't work. I don't know what to try or do, please help.

UPDATE: I was on university class (on Google meet) today and I realized that using the page https://www.onlinemictest.com/ the signal reacted to the people talking, and i was using headphones, I don't know if that helps.

2

Without you providing any information about your system or setup, install and run pavucontrol and see if you have your audio devices configured correctly.

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What do i do in pavucontrol? Everything looks fine to me, pavucontrol says the microphone is plugged in, and the only thing the mic records is some kind of white noise (both external and built-in). About the microphone it says "Family 17 (Models 10h-1fh) HD Audio Controller Analog Stereo" the profile of the mic is "Analog Stereo Duplex". Is this enough information?

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I ran into the same issue when I first started using linux. All you have to do is to drag the slider (in pulseaudio as shown in the picture above) until you can see that the equalizer below is receiving audio. (It will move depending to the right depending on the amount of sound)

5

Do you potentially have a hidden mic in your headphones?

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Just tossing one in here...

I've noticed, when dual booting with Windows, that Windows sometimes may "capture" hardware willy-nilly and assign its own MAC address to whatever it has specifically taken. (With one of my laptops, as an example, it tends to be Bluetooth devices.) The solution, in my case, is in disabling/re-enabling and reacquiring the device in Linux.

regards

EDIT: I'm lazy, and Windows is no longer on that laptop, but would assume (in my case) the right addition to mkinitcpio.conf or an entry in modprobe.d would take care of it. Or a systemd entry.

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Have you checked your input devices in pavucontrol?

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Now that I think about it, I booted Windows about when I think the problem came, could you be more specific in the solutions you suggest?

Thanks.

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Maybe clean your glasses, or read manual. Then decide that everything is fine.
https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kde-workspace/kcontrol/plasma-pa/index.html
https://userbase.kde.org/Welcome_to_KDE_UserBase
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio

Welcome to the Forum!

kristallkugel
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I don't know how to get any more specific than this.

My case. For my hardware. YourMileageMayVary.

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I have a similar issue. I have an Asus laptop, and my internal microphone doesn't work. If i boot Windows it works, and if after booting Windows I boot directly into Garuda then it works fine in Garuda too. But if I reboot again in Garuda, it stops working again.

inxi -Fxxxza
System:    Kernel: 5.11.7-zen1-1-zen x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
           root=UUID=c0729f37-3ac4-4dbc-bc06-63512a7c0f45 rw [email protected] quiet splash
           rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0 systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1
           loglevel=3
           Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.3 tk: Qt 5.15.2 info: latte-dock wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM
           Distro: Garuda Linux
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: X550LD v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
           Mobo: ASUSTeK model: X550LD v: 1.0 serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends
           v: X550LD.308 date: 04/17/2019
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 29.5 Wh condition: 29.5/37.4 Wh (79%) volts: 14.4/14.4
           model: ASUSTeK X550A26 type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: Not charging cycles: 171
CPU:       Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i7-4500U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Haswell
           family: 6 model-id: 45 (69) stepping: 1 microcode: 26 L2 cache: 4 MiB
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 19156
           Speed: 1796 MHz min/max: 800/3000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1796 2: 1833 3: 2040
           4: 1796
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
           Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
           Type: spec_store_bypass
           mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
           STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
           Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915
           v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0a16 class ID: 0300
           Device-2: NVIDIA GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/810M/820M / GT 620M/625M/630M/720M]
           driver: N/A alternate: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia bus ID: 04:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1140
           class ID: 0302
           Device-3: Chicony USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus ID: 2-5:2
           chip ID: 04f2:b40a class ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: loaded: intel
           display ID: :0 screens: 1
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0")
           s-diag: 414mm (16.3")
           Monitor-1: eDP1 res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 102 size: 340x190mm (13.4x7.5")
           diag: 389mm (15.3")
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 4400 (HSW GT2) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.4
           compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
           bus ID: 00:03.0 chip ID: 8086:0a0c class ID: 0403
           Device-2: Intel 8 Series HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
           bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:9c20 class ID: 0403
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.11.7-zen1-1-zen
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK
           driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000 bus ID: 02:00.1 chip ID: 10ec:8168 class ID: 0200
           IF: enp2s0f1 state: down mac: <filter>
           Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter
           vendor: AzureWave driver: ath9k v: kernel port: e000 bus ID: 03:00.0
           chip ID: 168c:0036 class ID: 0280
           IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth: Device-1: IMC Networks type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus ID: 2-6:4
           chip ID: 13d3:3408 class ID: e001
           Message: Required tool hciconfig not installed. Check --recommends
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 931.52 GiB used: 13.57 GiB (1.5%)
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
           ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 500GB size: 465.76 GiB
           block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: SSD
           serial: <filter> rev: 4B6Q scheme: GPT
           ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Toshiba model: MQ01ABF050 size: 465.76 GiB
           block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm
           serial: <filter> rev: 1J scheme: GPT
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 100 GiB size: 100 GiB (100.00%) used: 13.54 GiB (13.5%) fs: btrfs
           dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5
           ID-2: /boot/efi raw size: 100 MiB size: 96 MiB (96.00%) used: 25.5 MiB (26.5%)
           fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
           ID-3: /home raw size: 100 GiB size: 100 GiB (100.00%) used: 13.54 GiB (13.5%)
           fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5
           ID-4: /var/log raw size: 100 GiB size: 100 GiB (100.00%) used: 13.54 GiB (13.5%)
           fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5
           ID-5: /var/tmp raw size: 100 GiB size: 100 GiB (100.00%) used: 13.54 GiB (13.5%)
           fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache pressure: 75 (default 100)
           ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 1.91 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767
           dev: /dev/zram0
           ID-2: swap-2 type: zram size: 1.91 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767
           dev: /dev/zram1
           ID-3: swap-3 type: zram size: 1.91 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767
           dev: /dev/zram2
           ID-4: swap-4 type: zram size: 1.91 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767
           dev: /dev/zram3
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 51.0 C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2000
Info:      Processes: 216 Uptime: 6m wakeups: 1 Memory: 7.65 GiB used: 2.54 GiB (33.2%)
           Init: systemd v: 247 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 clang: 11.1.0 Packages: pacman: 1449
           lib: 355 Shell: fish v: 3.2.0 running in: alacritty inxi: 3.3.01

pacmd list-sources
3 source(s) available.
    index: 0
	name: <alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor>
	driver: <module-alsa-card.c>
	flags: DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY DYNAMIC_LATENCY
	state: SUSPENDED
	suspend cause: IDLE
	priority: 1030
	volume: front-left: 65536 / 100% / 0,00 dB,   front-right: 65536 / 100% / 0,00 dB
	        balance 0,00
	base volume: 65536 / 100% / 0,00 dB
	volume steps: 65537
	muted: no
	current latency: 0,00 ms
	max rewind: 0 KiB
	sample spec: s16le ch 2 44100 Hz
	channel map: front-left,front-right
	             Stereo
	used by: 0
	linked by: 0
	configured latency: 0,00 ms; range is 0,50 .. 2000,00 ms
	monitor_of: 0
	card: 1 <alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1b.0>
	module: 7
	properties:
		device.description = "Monitor of Audio interno Stereo analogico"
		device.class = "monitor"
		alsa.card = "1"
		alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel PCH"
		alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel PCH at 0xf7a18000 irq 50"
		alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel"
		device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1b.0"
		sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card1"
		device.bus = "pci"
		device.vendor.id = "8086"
		device.vendor.name = "Intel Corporation"
		device.product.id = "9c20"
		device.product.name = "8 Series HD Audio Controller"
		device.form_factor = "internal"
		device.string = "1"
		module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
		device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci"
  * index: 1
	name: <alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo>
	driver: <module-alsa-card.c>
	flags: HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY DYNAMIC_LATENCY
	state: SUSPENDED
	suspend cause: IDLE
	priority: 9039
	volume: front-left: 49152 /  75% / -7,50 dB,   front-right: 49152 /  75% / -7,50 dB
	        balance 0,00
	base volume: 5206 /   8% / -66,00 dB
	volume steps: 65537
	muted: no
	current latency: 0,00 ms
	max rewind: 0 KiB
	sample spec: s16le ch 2 44100 Hz
	channel map: front-left,front-right
	             Stereo
	used by: 0
	linked by: 0
	configured latency: 0,00 ms; range is 0,50 .. 2000,00 ms
	card: 1 <alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1b.0>
	module: 7
	properties:
		alsa.resolution_bits = "16"
		device.api = "alsa"
		device.class = "sound"
		alsa.class = "generic"
		alsa.subclass = "generic-mix"
		alsa.name = "ALC3236 Analog"
		alsa.id = "ALC3236 Analog"
		alsa.subdevice = "0"
		alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0"
		alsa.device = "0"
		alsa.card = "1"
		alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel PCH"
		alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel PCH at 0xf7a18000 irq 50"
		alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel"
		device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1b.0"
		sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card1"
		device.bus = "pci"
		device.vendor.id = "8086"
		device.vendor.name = "Intel Corporation"
		device.product.id = "9c20"
		device.product.name = "8 Series HD Audio Controller"
		device.form_factor = "internal"
		device.string = "front:1"
		device.buffering.buffer_size = "352800"
		device.buffering.fragment_size = "176400"
		device.access_mode = "mmap+timer"
		device.profile.name = "analog-stereo"
		device.profile.description = "Stereo analogico"
		device.description = "Audio interno Stereo analogico"
		module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
		device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci"
	ports:
		analog-input-internal-mic: Internal Microphone (priority 8900, latency offset 0 usec, available: unknown)
			properties:
				device.icon_name = "audio-input-microphone"
		analog-input-mic: Microphone (priority 8700, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
			properties:
				device.icon_name = "audio-input-microphone"
	active port: <analog-input-internal-mic>
    index: 2
	name: <ladspa_output.mbeq_1197.mbeq.monitor>
	driver: <module-ladspa-sink.c>
	flags: DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY DYNAMIC_LATENCY
	state: SUSPENDED
	suspend cause: IDLE
	priority: 1000
	volume: front-left: 65536 / 100% / 0,00 dB,   front-right: 65536 / 100% / 0,00 dB
	        balance 0,00
	base volume: 65536 / 100% / 0,00 dB
	volume steps: 65537
	muted: no
	current latency: 0,00 ms
	max rewind: 0 KiB
	sample spec: float32le ch 2 44100 Hz
	channel map: front-left,front-right
	             Stereo
	used by: 0
	linked by: 0
	configured latency: 0,00 ms; range is 0,50 .. 2000,00 ms
	monitor_of: 1
	module: 25
	properties:
		device.description = "Monitor of LADSPA Plugin Multiband EQ on Audio interno Stereo analogico"
		device.class = "monitor"
		device.icon_name = "audio-input-microphone"

What could it be?

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M$ make magic things and locks your microphone for other OS.

But why did you hijack this thread?

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It's really strange, because after a first reboot into Garuda it works fine, but if I reboot again then it doesn't work anymore.

I wrote in this thread because I didn't want to open a new one since I have a similar issue. But if it is a problem I can open a new one