broken mic on linux

[edgy grail]

The mic used to work fine on windows but on fedora, arch or ubuntu it isnt detecting any sound

[edgy wren]

what mic?

[edgy grail]

integrated mic on laptop

even the head phone mics dont work

[true sleet]

did you installed sof-firmware?

[edgy grail]

no what is that?

[fringe turtle]

firmware that your system needs for sound basically

[edgy grail]

.s litany

[rigid pulsar]

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[edgy grail]

gnome, kde plasma, distro- literally all linux distro
change to linux
the mic isnt working after linux
the mic to work again like it used to earlier

[edgy grail]

Arch doesn't use any audio server by default. Up to you to select one. So idk wdym by no mic on arch. Fedora uses pipewire and Ubuntu uses pulse

[edgy grail]

Still missing info

.s q

[rigid pulsar]

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[edgy grail]

yeah was editing

[edgy grail]

I am on fedora currently and the mic input audio isnt getting detected

[edgy grail]

Send hardware info and again, arch can use any audio server you want, it's not like fedora or ubuntu

[edgy grail]

Check pavucontrol and alsamixer

.aw pipewire

[rigid pulsar]

Arch Wiki: Pipewire

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pipewire

[edgy grail]

.aw alsa

[rigid pulsar]

Arch Wiki: Alsa

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Alsa

[edgy grail]

.aw mic

[rigid pulsar]

No results found

[edgy grail]

fedora 37 workstation, acer aspire 3

[edgy grail]

A neofetch can give more info, also lspci

Also pavucontrol helps to see what's going on and configure

OS: Fedora Linux 37 (Workstation Edition) x86_64
.:cccccccccccccccccccccccccc:. Host: Aspire A315-24P V1.03
.;ccccccccccccc;.:dddl:.;ccccccc;. Kernel: 6.2.9-200.fc37.x86_64
.:ccccccccccccc;OWMKOOXMWd;ccccccc:. Uptime: 58 mins
.:ccccccccccccc;KMMc;cc;xMMc:ccccccc:. Packages: 2259 (rpm), 18 (flatpak), 29 (snap)
,cccccccccccccc;MMM.;cc;;WW::cccccccc, Shell: bash 5.2.15
:cccccccccccccc;MMM.;cccccccccccccccc: Resolution: 1920x1080
:ccccccc;oxOOOo;MMM0OOk.;cccccccccccc: DE: GNOME 43.4
cccccc:0MMKxdd:;MMMkddc.;cccccccccccc; WM: Mutter
ccccc:XM0';cccc;MMM.;cccccccccccccccc' WM Theme: Adwaita
ccccc;MMo;ccccc;MMW.;ccccccccccccccc; Theme: Adwaita-dark [GTK2/3]
ccccc;0MNc.ccc.xMMd:ccccccccccccccc; Icons: breeze [GTK2/3]
cccccc;dNMWXXXWM0::cccccccccccccc:, Terminal: kitty
cccccccc;.:odl:.;cccccccccccccc:,. CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7520U with Radeon Graphics (8) @ 2.800G
:cccccccccccccccccccccccccccc:'. GPU: AMD ATI 03:00.0 Mendocino
.:cccccccccccccccccccccc:;,.. Memory: 3662MiB / 7155MiB

sudo dnf install pavucontrol

[edgy grail]

You pretty much have the same system as me

[edgy grail]

lol nice to know ig

Yours is slightly different from mine but same series

You may like to check pipewire service status

Also wireplumber

uhhh how?

[edgy grail]

systemctl --user status pipewire
systemctl --user status wireplumber
systemctl --user status pipewire-pulse```

Also journalctl

systemctl --user status pipewire
systemctl --user status wireplumber
systemctl --user status pipewire-pulse
● pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service; disabled; preset: disabled)
Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service.d
└─00-uresourced.conf
Active: active (running) since Thu 2023-04-06 23:28:54 IST; 1h 2min ago
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire.socket
Main PID: 2188 (pipewire)
Tasks: 2 (limit: 8516)
Memory: 8.1M
CPU: 6.154s
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/[email protected]/session.slice/pipewire.service
└─2188 /usr/bin/pipewire

Apr 06 23:28:54 chuuya systemd[1891]: Started pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service.
Apr 06 23:28:54 chuuya pipewire[2188]: mod.rt: Can't find org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop. Is xdg->
Apr 06 23:28:54 chuuya pipewire[2188]: mod.rt: found session bus but no portal

journalctl -b -p err

[edgy grail]

You have to run one after another, not all at once

Apr 06 23:28:24 chuuya kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Failure creating named object [_SB.PCI0.GP>
Apr 06 23:28:24 chuuya kernel: ACPI Error: AE_ALREADY_EXISTS, During name lookup/catalog (2022102>
Apr 06 23:28:24 chuuya kernel: hub 6-0:1.0: config failed, hub doesn't have any ports! (err -19)
Apr 06 23:28:24 chuuya kernel: integrity: Problem loading X.509 certificate -65
Apr 06 23:28:24 chuuya kernel: integrity: Problem loading X.509 certificate -65
Apr 06 23:28:24 chuuya systemd[1]: bpf-lsm: Failed to load BPF object: No such process
Apr 06 23:28:28 chuuya systemd[1]: bpf-lsm: Failed to load BPF object: No such process
Apr 06 23:28:28 chuuya systemd-gpt-auto-generator[596]: Failed to dissect: Permission denied
Apr 06 23:28:28 chuuya (sd-executor)[580]: /usr/lib/systemd/system-generators/systemd-gpt-auto-ge>
Apr 06 23:28:28 chuuya kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Opcode 0x c03 failed: -16
Apr 06 23:28:29 chuuya bluetoothd[962]: src/plugin.c:plugin_init() Failed to init vcp plugin
Apr 06 23:28:29 chuuya bluetoothd[962]: src/plugin.c:plugin_init() Failed to init mcp plugin
Apr 06 23:28:29 chuuya bluetoothd[962]: src/plugin.c:plugin_init() Failed to init bap plugin
Apr 06 23:28:34 chuuya wpa_supplicant[1225]: bgscan simple: Failed to enable signal strength moni>
Apr 06 23:28:34 chuuya dbus-broker-launch[1431]: Ignoring duplicate name 'org.freedesktop.FileMan>
Apr 06 23:28:52 chuuya gdm-password][1874]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
Apr 06 23:28:53 chuuya dbus-broker-launch[1937]: Ignoring duplicate name 'org.freedesktop.FileMan>
Apr 06 23:28:58 chuuya gdm-launch-environment][1393]: GLib-GObject: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_>
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Also what does pavucontrol shows?

[edgy grail]

I see a muted icon there, what happens if you click it?

[edgy grail]

btw the old laptop is revived thanks a lot for the help

[ripe otter]

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[edgy grail]

Sorry? What are ya talking about

[edgy grail]

the volume sliders get dimmed and dont get changed anymore

[edgy grail]

the linux installation for the micromax laptop

[edgy grail]

So it mutes it?

[edgy grail]

yep basically

[edgy grail]

I remember helping someone to install Arch32

[edgy grail]

Do you really need fedora btw?

[edgy grail]

I mean yeah fedora seems really smooth and easy to use

[edgy grail]

So is Arch based EndeavourOS

Or linux mint

1. the mic for me is broken on them too
2. arch has errors many times and I wanted to use RHEL based distro for some time
3. linux mint- will try on vm and check

I was using garuda before this but it was using way too much recources and had some broken packages

[edgy grail]

Wdym
Arch can use any audio server so

[edgy grail]

No need for a VM. Make a ventoy usb and try all distros

[edgy grail]

Try with EndeavourOS

[edgy grail]

oh right I forgot about it

[edgy grail]

alright

[edgy grail]

Yup. Try the distros live

You can even troubleshoot live

[edgy grail]

It uses pipewire tho

[edgy grail]

didnt work...

[edgy grail]

Wdym

[edgy grail]

the input still wasnt detected even after using external headset it didnt detect the hedset mic and didnt take input from integrated mic

[fringe turtle]

lspci check the hardware

lspci -k to find what driver is used

Sometimes the hardware requires proprietary software.