if mic plugged in case's front 3.5mm port, no sound comes from headphones connected at rear in mobo

[thin lotus]

okay so my headphones work fine all alone. but when i plug the mic into the combo 3.5mm port on the case, the sound stops coming from the headphones. unplug the mic, and there's music in headphones again.
does mint cannot use the two ports connected simultaneously?

[fresh hamlet]

Likely not. See audio settings. I think you can only output to one port.

[thin lotus]

I only want output from one port. To my headphones that are connected at rear directly to mobo

I want to use 3.5mm port on front of case just for mic

[fresh hamlet]

See audio settings. I guess output and input can be different if you mean. You can set it from there.

[thin lotus]

when no mic is plugged in on front, this is what my default audio output port is

when i plug mic, it creates another entry but i still click the same output device yet no audio out working

[fresh hamlet]

A side topic... no problem on your input? Just output?

[thin lotus]

yup. i can capture audio with mic when it's connected.

[fresh hamlet]

Nice. How about selecting a different output profile?

[thin lotus]

If i select “Headphone” as output, it still doesn’t work

If i anytime unplug the mic, there is audio to headphones again

[fresh hamlet]

Not device. I mean the output profile, this one.

[thin lotus]

only one profile is there, no matter the status of front port

[fresh hamlet]

That got me scratching my head.

Could you perhaps compromise by plugging in your headphones on the HDMI out display? If there's any.

In the mean time, gonna ask some pals to come over.

[ruby jacinth]

Try on the Input tab, select your Input device, then select the Output device on your headphones.

[thin lotus]

done. no change still.

believe me i have juggled between those options several times with no luck.

[thin lotus]

BTW is it so that mint handles only one of the two audio controllers at the same time? one being the ports present on the back, and second being the combo port on the case's front panel

[brittle panther]

i think it's intentional by the motherboard to mute rear (typically speakers) while a user is listening on headphones thru front.

u can use alsamixer in terminal , maximized to see more.. use its F6 button, and F3

unmute from there if needed

[tawdry elk]

Yes, definitely. You can use either all the front plugs or all the rear plugs, and iirc the last one plugged in determines which is active.

[wicked moon]

You can disable automute

this is the feature that makes it mute one port when the other is plugged in

amixer -c1 get 'Auto-Mute Mode'
amixer -c1 set 'Auto-Mute Mode' Disabled

assuming that the device is card 1 sub with the correct number

its zero indexed

Is there a reason why you can't simply plug both items into the same side?

I'm guessing you simply don't want to because its convenient to have the wire run behind the case but you could also A) leave the mic plugged in and plug it in the back or B) if you need to put the mic away simply leave its cord plugged in and plug in the mic

[brittle panther]

interesting. i heard alsamixer also has that toggle

[wicked moon]

it toggles it mute or not mute

[brittle panther]

may have an 'automute' column

[wicked moon]

that command is toggling off the auto mute feature that will mute it on subsequent plugs

its possible

[brittle panther]

some other person said they found it in theirs

[wicked moon]

the command on the other hand can be run on log in automatically though

[brittle panther]

ofc depends on soundcard if such feature would exist

[brittle panther]

oh neat

[wicked moon]

Before I decided to switch to wireless I was leaving everything plugged in and just swapping which port was muted with a hotkey to switch between headphones and speakers

in any case I recommend solving this as simply as possible and using ports on the same side to avoid any configuration

OR testing disabling auto mute if its just muting

If its not muted but unable to be used because that is how the motherboard chip does sound the first option may be the only one

[thin lotus]

yeah i think this is the case bcz on front it is a combo jack and for the mic to work, i need to use the 4 pole adapter that comes with it. so now although i only have mic plugged, but maybe due to 5 poles, the sytems think it is an audio out and audio in port.

[brittle panther]

ah right

ya then u have solutions above

[thin lotus]

but shouldn't it override when i manually select what device i want to output to from the sound settings? logically i think it should but that's me

[thin lotus]

thanks for this man. i did this and now i can use the two together

[brittle panther]

never know these days with frikkin logic-controlled analog ports. In the old days they were fixed, and no headaches

[thin lotus]

yeah. it worked. thanks to you i understood what was weird in first place.

[thin lotus]

hahaha makes all the sense

just need to fiddle around with settings in pulseeffects. the noise floor seem is like very high for some reason on mint. maybe windows does some auto suppresion already by default and i didn't notice it all this time

[brittle panther]

if some issue on mic quality?

check alsamixer F4 for capture levels, or F3 for mic boost

it's appalling those settings haven't made as GUI into pavucontrol or pwucontrol yet.

still using a terminal volume-mixer app like it's 1994

[thin lotus]

damn man. letsgoo. that helped man

for some reason, input volume if set to 100% means the gain is of 30db which was what was causing all the noise in background

with gain of 10, noise floor isn't that much for people on discord vc to complain now