Microphone not working–Solved

[Member greyowl]

My Compaq laptop previously was running Vista. The microphone and camera worked fine with Zoom.

I recently installed antiX 22. Now, the internal integrated microphone will work for shot periods of time on Zoom. Google Meet the mic will not work at all. A USB headset with mic will work consistently on Zoom but not at all on Google Meet.

Below is inxi -F:

user@antix1:~
$ inxi -F
System:
  Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.9.0-326-antix.1-amd64-smp arch: x86_64 bits: 64
    Desktop: IceWM v: 3.0.1
    Distro: antiX-22_x64-full Grup Yorum 18 October 2022
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard
    product: Compaq Presario CQ70 Notebook PC v: PCID
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 360C v: 09.67 serial: <superuser required>
    BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: F.65 date: 12/15/2010
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 0% condition: 47.5/47.5 Wh (100.0%) volts: 10.8
    min: 10.8
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Pentium Dual T3200 bits: 64 type: MCP cache:
    L2: 1024 KiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1166 min/max: 1000/2000 cores: 1: 1333 2: 1000
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Mobile 4 Series Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
  Device-2: Chicony Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo
  Display: server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: intel gpu: i915
    resolution: 1440x900~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel GM45 Express (CTG)
    v: 2.1 Mesa 20.3.5
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801I HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-326-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet driver: r8169
  IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:1d:72:71:4a:13
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR928X Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k
  IF: wlan0 state: down mac: 00:23:4e:3b:f5:49
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 232.89 GiB used: 4.81 GiB (2.1%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: HM250JI size: 232.89 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 223.86 GiB used: 4.81 GiB (2.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 4.37 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 51.0 C mobo: 51.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 176 Uptime: 27m Memory: 2.87 GiB used: 1.27 GiB (44.2%)
  Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.19
user@antix1:~
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• This topic was modified 6 months ago by greyowl.

Dell Latitude D620 laptop with antiX 22 (64 bit)

[Member PPC]

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You describe some trully random Mic behaviours – plase try to install pulseaudio (and enable it) and see if the audio works better…

To install pulseaudio:

Menu > Terminal:

sudo apt install pulseaudio

enter your password of asked to, then wait for the install procedure to finish…

To enable pulseaudio server:

pulseaudio -D

• This reply was modified 6 months ago by PPC.

[Member greyowl]

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I installed Pulse Audio from the Package Installer and rebooted the laptop.
Now, the microphone is working on both Zoom and Google Meet.
Thank you so much for the help.

Dell Latitude D620 laptop with antiX 22 (64 bit)

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