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Title: Pulsemixer / Mic issues
Post by: Kolya on 16 June 2021, 18:00:46

Hi everyone, i've been using Artix for alittle and have been able to pretty much get around but one small issue is my mic not being recognized. When i open Pulsemixer i have no idea what im doing there.. ::)
From what i could gather is that i need to set my preferred default output sink but i'm not familiar with pulsemixer and how to do that.
Anyone have an idea what i'm doign wrong?

Title: Re: Pulsemixer / Mic issues
Post by: tintin on 17 June 2021, 07:36:26

Bonjour,
I removed the pulseaudio packages except one: libpulse.

I installed qastools which offers a nice and very practical mixer :
sudo pacman -Sy qastools

Then I listed my audio cards:
cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [HDMI ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI
HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfce60000 irq 96
1 [Generic ]: HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic
HD-Audio Generic at 0xfc900000 irq 98

I created/modified /etc/asound.conf

And added this to select card1:
defaults.pcm.card 1
defaults.ctl.card 1

Title: Re: Pulsemixer / Mic issues
Post by: Kolya on 21 June 2021, 16:13:28

I tried it but that didn't solve it for me. No idea but i'll keep poking around . Thanks though.

Title: Re: Pulsemixer / Mic issues
Post by: tintin on 21 June 2021, 17:50:34

Quote from: tintin – on 17 June 2021, 07:36:26

I tried it but that didn't solve it for me. No idea but i'll keep poking around . Thanks though.

I guess you specified the correct card in /etc/asound.conf

What alsa packages do you have?

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pacman -Qs alsa

Title: Re: Pulsemixer / Mic issues
Post by: Kolya on 23 June 2021, 22:07:38

These are the alsa packages that i have.
I might just need a new mic... ;D

Title: Re: Pulsemixer / Mic issues
Post by: tintin on 24 June 2021, 11:29:25

Quote from: Kolya – on 23 June 2021, 22:07:38

These are the alsa packages that i have.

Here is what I have on three pc on which I do not use pulseaudio :

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jp-artix:[jp]:~$ pacman -Qs alsa
local/alsa-card-profiles 1:0.3.30-2
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor - ALSA card profiles
local/alsa-firmware 1.2.4-2
    Firmware binaries for loader programs in alsa-tools and hotplug firmware
    loader
local/alsa-lib 1.2.5.1-3
    An alternative implementation of Linux sound support
local/alsa-topology-conf 1.2.5.1-1
    ALSA topology configuration files
local/alsa-ucm-conf 1.2.5.1-1
    ALSA Use Case Manager configuration (and topologies)
local/alsa-utils 1.2.5.1-1
    Advanced Linux Sound Architecture - Utilities
local/alsa-utils-openrc 20210505-2 (openrc-world)
    OpenRC alsa-utils init script
local/qastools 0.23.0-1 (pro-audio)
    A collection of desktop applications for the Linux sound system ALSA.
local/zita-alsa-pcmi 0.3.2-3
    The successor of clalsadrv, provides easy access to ALSA PCM devices.
jp-artix:[jp]:~$

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I might just need a new mic... ;D

First thing to do: check if the microphone is working :)

Title: Re: Pulsemixer / Mic issues
Post by: SGOrava on 24 June 2021, 22:36:00

It may also depend on your hardware (since I did not find any mention of it).
Especially on laptops with internal mic and the 4-pin jack connector you might need to properly configure the sound-card driver to recognize it.

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