Internal Microphone not working.
The voice intensity is shows maximum in volume control.
I tried switching back and forth between pipewire & pulseaudio, both seems to give same result. The voice recording has high volume noise.
$ inxi -Faxz
System:
Kernel: 5.18.7-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.18-x86_64
root=UUID=38422d63-8f74-4526-8fc7-5323de68cca6 rw apparmor=1
security=apparmor resume=UUID=9ce2076f-8ca5-4041-85e1-bfef8888b750
udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: Xfce v: 4.16.0 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.29 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm
v: 4.16.1 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux
base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Inspiron 15 3511 v: N/A
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Dell model: 0042CN v: A00 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Dell
v: 1.12.1 date: 04/27/2022
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 32.9 Wh (89.2%) condition: 36.9/40.4 Wh (91.4%)
volts: 12.7 min: 11.2 model: SMP DELL MGCM51A type: Li-poly
serial: <filter> status: charging
CPU:
Info: model: 11th Gen Intel Core i5-1135G7 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Tiger Lake built: 2020 process: Intel 10nm family: 6
model-id: 0x8C (140) stepping: 1 microcode: 0xA4
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 320 KiB desc: d-4x48 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 5 MiB desc: 4x1.2 MiB
L3: 8 MiB desc: 1x8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 928 high: 1183 min/max: 400/4200 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 731 2: 894 3: 1119
4: 799 5: 992 6: 661 7: 1051 8: 1183 bogomips: 38720
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2
mitigation: Enhanced IBRS, IBPB: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] vendor: Dell
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen12.1 process: Intel 10nm built: 2020-21
ports: active: eDP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 0000:00:02.0
chip-ID: 8086:9a49 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Microdia Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus-ID: 1-6:3 chip-ID: 0c45:6d1a class-ID: 0e02
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.3 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.2
compositor: xfwm v: 4.16.1 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: LG Display 0x06ff built: 2021 res: 1920x1080
hz: 60 dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64")
diag: 395mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080
Message: Unable to show GL data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio vendor: Dell
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl
bus-ID: 0000:00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a0c8 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.18.7-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: no
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.52 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
driver: rtw_8821ce v: N/A modules: rtw88_8821ce port: 3000
bus-ID: 0000:01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:c821 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 1-10:4 chip-ID: 0bda:c829 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller driver: vmd
v: 0.6 port: N/A bus-ID: 0000:00:0e.0 chip-ID: 8086:9a0b rev:
class-ID: 0104
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 151.05 GiB (31.7%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Intel
model: 670p SSDPEKNU512GZ NVMe 512GB size: 476.94 GiB block-size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD
serial: <filter> rev: 7003 temp: 35.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 331.35 GiB size: 325.08 GiB (98.11%)
used: 151.05 GiB (46.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p9 maj-min: 259:9
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%)
used: 292 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p8 maj-min: 259:8
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 61.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 243 Uptime: 3m wakeups: 1 Memory: 15.37 GiB
used: 2.45 GiB (15.9%) Init: systemd v: 251 default: graphical
tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.1.0 clang: 13.0.1 Packages: pacman: 1208
lib: 329 flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: xfce4-terminal
inxi: 3.3.19
$ pacmd list-cards
bash: pacmd: command not found
$ arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC3204 Analog [ALC3204 Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
The microphone which is shown as unplugged could be the internal microphone:
How do I fix it?
