Mic not detected on usb ports nor in the system

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Hey,
My usb-microphone isn’t detected, I’ve tried solving this issue by using chatgpt but we failed :slight_smile:
It’s been 2 months already and i still can’t fix the issue on my own.
My first time using linux hasn’t been very pleasant to say the least…

Here is some data:

[visual@visual-manjaro ~]$ arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC887-VD Analog [ALC887-VD Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 2: ALC887-VD Alt Analog [ALC887-VD Alt Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

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[visual@visual-manjaro ~]$ inxi -F
System:
  Host: visual-manjaro Kernel: 6.1.12-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64
    Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: All Series v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: Z87-K v: Rev X.0x serial: <superuser required>
    BIOS: American Megatrends v: 0801 date: 09/02/2013
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-4770K bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache:
    L2: 1024 KiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2354 min/max: 800/3900 cores: 1: 1237 2: 3900 3: 1241
    4: 800 5: 1140 6: 3500 7: 3499 8: 3521
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GM200 [GeForce GTX 980 Ti] driver: nvidia v: 525.89.02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.7 driver: X: loaded: nvidia gpu: nvidia
    resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  API: OpenGL Message: No GL data found on this system.
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio
    driver: snd_hda_intel
  Device-2: NVIDIA GM200 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  Sound API: ALSA v: k6.1.12-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-1: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    driver: r8169
  IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: bc:ee:7b:5f:86:8b
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 193.58 GiB (16.6%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 840 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Toshiba model: DT01ACA100 size: 931.51 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 219.51 GiB used: 193.58 GiB (88.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 59 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0%
Info:
  Processes: 218 Uptime: 6m Memory: 15.56 GiB used: 1.98 GiB (12.7%)
  Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.25

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[visual@visual-manjaro ~]$ amixer -D sysdefault info; amixer -D sysdefault
Card sysdefault 'PCH'/'HDA Intel PCH at 0xf7210000 irq 32'
  Mixer name	: 'Realtek ALC887-VD'
  Components	: 'HDA:10ec0887,10438576,00100302'
  Controls      : 47
  Simple ctrls  : 23
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 64
  Mono: Playback 44 [69%] [-20.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 64
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 255
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Front',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 64
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [off]
  Front Right: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Front Mic',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Front Mic Boost',0
  Capabilities: volume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: 0 - 3
  Front Left: 3 [100%] [30.00dB]
  Front Right: 3 [100%] [30.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Surround',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 64
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-64.00dB] [off]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-64.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Center',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 64
  Mono: Playback 0 [0%] [-64.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'LFE',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 64
  Mono: Playback 0 [0%] [-64.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Line',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Line Boost',0
  Capabilities: volume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: 0 - 3
  Front Left: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Default PCM',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 46
  Front Left: Capture 46 [100%] [30.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 46 [100%] [30.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',1
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 46
  Front Left: Capture 46 [100%] [30.00dB] [off]
  Front Right: Capture 46 [100%] [30.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Auto-Mute Mode',0
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: 'Disabled' 'Enabled'
  Item0: 'Enabled'
Simple mixer control 'Channel Mode',0
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: '2ch' '4ch' '6ch'
  Item0: '2ch'
Simple mixer control 'Digital',0
  Capabilities: cvolume
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 120
  Front Left: Capture 60 [50%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: Capture 60 [50%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0
  Capabilities: cenum
  Items: 'Front Mic' 'Rear Mic' 'Line'
  Item0: 'Front Mic'
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',1
  Capabilities: cenum
  Items: 'Front Mic' 'Rear Mic' 'Line'
  Item0: 'Front Mic'
Simple mixer control 'Loopback Mixing',0
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: 'Disabled' 'Enabled'
  Item0: 'Disabled'
Simple mixer control 'Rear Mic',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Rear Mic Boost',0
  Capabilities: volume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: 0 - 3
  Front Left: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
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If arecord -l has output, those are your “mics”. From your output those two are from your internal sound card with 3.5mm port. Try alsamixer then press F4 to move to capture tab. Do you see any? Also, you mentioned USB in the title, but I don’t see any. If you do use one, it should pop up in either lsusb and/or dmesg like this:

lsusb:

Bus 001 Device 007: ID 17a0:0303 Samson Technologies Corp. C01U Pro condenser microphone

dmesg:

[    3.271493] usb 1-4: Product: Samson C01U Pro Mic
[    3.271496] usb 1-4: Manufacturer: Samson Technologies
[    5.524005] input: Samson Technologies Samson C01U Pro Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.3/0003:17A0:0303.0003/input/input15
[    5.579621] hid-generic 0003:17A0:0303.0003: input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.00 Device [Samson Technologies Samson C01U Pro Mic] on usb-0000:00:14.0-4/input3
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inxi usually shows internal audio devices from lspci and USB devices from lsusb, so
checking lsusb would probably not find USB audio device

If there is no sign of life in lsusb for a USB device, the device is probably End Of Life