[SOLVED] Microphone

[Member joaopaulo]

Hello people, my microphone is not recording my voice and i’m going to send my settings

• This topic was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by Brian Masinick. Reason: Solved

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[Member seaken64]

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Can you share your hardware info with us?

Type:

inxi -Fxz

into a terminal and then copy and paste here into the forum.

Is the microphone part of a headset? Built in to the computer (like a laptop)? Or a separate wired microphone. Powered? Batteries?

Seaken64

[Member Robin]

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Looks like this is a notebook, since there is a battery charge symbol in tray.

In some notebooks the recording and line-in is handled via a different sound adapter, e.g. as part of a tv module. In this case you will have to figure what additional drivers are needed (eg. for an SAA7134 Chip or something similar). But even when everything is handled by the HDA-Intel sound device, the names displayed by alsa are sometimes wrong (if the driver doesn’t report them correctly).

A good point to start from is How to record from Mic input and How to test sound card.

And maybe you want to check and post the output of
alsa-info
from within a command line window (terminal-emulator).

Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.

[Moderator caprea]

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Hi joaopaulo, on your screenshots there are some channels muted. Those with the MM under the bars.
On the second screenshot in particular the one for the micro.Please first try to unmute these channels by pressing the key m.

[Member PPC]

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@joaopaulo – since you are new at antiX, here’s a more detailed explanation of what you should try to do to follow caprea’s advice and porbably solve your problem:
– Go to sound card configuration window, that you showed us on your pictures.
– Using the right and left arrow keys, select the “Mic” (this means “Mic” should be the color red) and then press the “M” key once. The “MM” on “Mic” should disappear and a number should appear in it’s place). This should unmute the Microphone. You can then change it’s volume to any value you want, using the up and down arrow keys.

Also- we do have a Portuguese part of the forum, you can post your questions there in portuguese!

P.

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[Member joaopaulo]

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System:
  Kernel: 5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
  Desktop: IceWM 2.9.4 Distro: antiX-21_x64-full Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:
  Type: Other-vm? System: LOGIN product: PC-A1005 v: IP-M12.62.24 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: LOGIN model: PC-A1005 v: IP-M12.62.24 serial: <filter> BIOS: INSYDE 
  v: IP-M12.62.24 date: 01/12/2011 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 5.7 Wh (51.4%) condition: 11.1/25.5 Wh (43.3%) 
  volts: 11.6 min: 11.6 model: LOGIN BT-A004 status: Charging 
CPU:
  Info: Single Core model: Intel Atom N455 bits: 64 type: MT arch: Bonnell 
  rev: A cache: L2: 512 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 bogomips: 6666 
  Speed: 1655 MHz min/max: 1000/1666 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1655 2: 1658 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics 
  driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 
  Device-2: Importek 1.3Mega Web Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
  bus-ID: 1-2:3 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: intel 
  resolution: 1024x600~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Pineview M v: 1.4 Mesa 20.3.5 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.19 running: no 
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR928X Wireless Network Adapter 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: ath9k v: kernel port: 6000 bus-ID: 01:00.0 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet driver: r8169 
  v: kernel port: 4000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 298.09 GiB used: 10.95 GiB (3.7%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MQ01ABF032 size: 298.09 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 292.4 GiB used: 10.95 GiB (3.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found. 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 63.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 150 Uptime: 1h 29m Memory: 1.93 GiB used: 1 GiB (52.1%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 Packages: 1753 
  Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.06

[Member marcelocripe]

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Looks like this is a notebook, since there is a battery charge symbol in tray.

Robin, you noticed very well. I hadn’t realized this when João posted these same images on the Telegram group. It is important that it shows us the result of the commands “inxi -Fxz” (João, always post the result of this command when asking for help in this forum) and the “alsa-info” (I didn’t know this one or I don’t remember) so that we can confirm if you need to use the F6 key to select the other sound card in the AlsaMixer – Audio Mixer program window (pt-BR adaptation).

I didn’t know the procedures that PPC and Robin taught us, that’s why, João, as I always write in the groups, any doubts that you can’t get satisfactory answers through the Telegram group created by k@k@r0t0, should come to this forum, as your question or difficulty will serve others in the future.

Thank you for creating this topic, we will learn together and in the future you will be able to help others.

marcelocripe
(Original text in Brazilian Portuguese)

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Looks like this is a notebook, since there is a battery charge symbol in tray.

Robin, você reparou muito bem. Eu não tinha percebido isto quando o João postou estas mesmas imagens no grupo de Telegram. É importante que ele nos mostre o resultado dos comandos “inxi -Fxz” (João, sempre poste o resultado deste comando quando for solicitar ajuda neste fórum) e o “alsa-info” (este eu não conhecia ou não me lembro) para podermos confirmar se será necessário você utilizar a tecla F6 para selecionar a outra placa de som na janela do programa AlsaMixer – Misturador de Áudio (adaptação pt-BR).

Os procedimentos que o PPC e o Robin nos ensinaram eu não os conhecia, por isso, João, como eu sempre escrevo nos grupos, todas as dúvidas que você não conseguir obter respostas satisfatórias através do grupo de Telegram criado pelo k@k@r0t0, devem vir para este fórum, pois a sua dúvida ou dificuldade servirá para as outras pessoas no futuro.

Obrigado por você criar este tópico, nós aprenderemos juntos e no futuro você poderá ajudar as outras pessoas.

marcelocripe
(Texto original em Português do Brasil)

[Member stevesr0]

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Hi joaopaulo,

(May be a duplicate message. Didn’t see it after I submitted and then I was no longer logged in.)

I see that PulseAudio is set as the active sound server. Have you tried using pavucontrol to unmute the microphone?

stevesr0

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[Member Robin]

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I recently stumbled upon a command

sudo hdajacksensetest -a

maybe it could help you to detect whether your mic is sensed and where?

Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.

[Member joaopaulo]

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don’t work 🙁

[Member joaopaulo]

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i’m going try pavucontrol now
edit: not worked

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[Member joaopaulo]

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not worked

[Member PPC]

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Hi, joaopaulo – Just saying “not worked” does not explain much. Exactly what did you try that didn’t work?… The post right before the one where you said that? Did you see any error?
Did you try to unmute the mic like caprea and I advised? If you did try that- did’t the “MM” on the Mic disappear?

In portuguese:
Olá, joaopaulo – apenas dizer que algo “não funciona” não nos explica muito. Exactamente o que você tentou que não funcionou?… aquilo que lhe foi indicado na postagem imediatamente anterior aquele onde você diz isso? Todas as sugetões anteriores? Exatamente o que não funcionou? Surgiu algum erro? Se não nos explicar tudo é impossível ajudarmos.
Tentou retirar o “mute” (sem som) do microfone como o caprea e eu indicamos? Se tentou isso, o que aconteceu? a indicação “MM” no Mic não desapareceu?
PS: Quando algo não funciona num computador, apenas dizer “não funciona” não nos ajuda a resolver nada- é como ir ao médico e dizer “não me sinto bem”- só dizer isso não ajuda em nada o médico a resolver o seu problema, certo?
Se você tem problemas em expressar-se em inglês, mas uma vez recomendo o forum em português…

P.

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[Member joaopaulo]

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i tried to unmute in the alsamixer and in the pavucontrol and don’t worked

[Member stevesr0]

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ADDENDUM: Do you have BOTH PulseAudio AND Pipewire installed? If so, I would remove one or the other.

Hi joaopaulo,

A couple of other things:

(1) Your mic boost is set very high. I saw a post in the Linux Mint forum where the problem of a muted microphone was fixed after DECREASING the mic boost to less than 51. (On my system, both mic and mic boost are set at 53.)

(2) A thread on a ubuntu forum (https://askubuntu.com/questions/259671/cant-unmute-with-alsamixer) provided the following solution:

“By using the Pulseaudio Command Line Interface we will get the index of available sinks

pacmd list-sinks

We then can unmute the sink with

pacmd set-sink-mute <index> 0”

If this works, but the problem returns with each reboot, then doing “sudo alsactl store” after fixing it may make it permanent.

hope those help.

stevesr0

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