During my last zoom meeting, I discovered that there is no microphone. I can’t see it also in Plasma settings, so it’s gone system-wide.
There were no issues with microphone for the past 7,5 years (since I installed system). I can’t tell when it broke but it had to be within last month, because previous zoom talk was fine. I don’t recall removing anything, only updating (will check pacman log).
I tried to change downgrade zoom, few versions earlier, didn’t make any difference. I booted various kernels, still no change.
At this point, I have no idea what to do now. Please, help me restore the microphone, because I need it for my work.
inxi -Fxxx
System:
Host: alienware-PC Kernel: 5.15.32-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64
compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0 Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.24.4 tk: Qt v: 5.15.3
info: latte-dock wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux
base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Alienware product: Alienware 17 R3 v: 1.7.0
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Alienware model: 0GH72M v: A00 serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: Alienware v: 1.7.0 date: 01/18/2019
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 65.5 Wh (100.0%) condition: 65.5/90.0 Wh (72.7%)
volts: 16.6 min: 15.0 model: COMPAL PABAS0241231 type: Li-ion serial: 41167
status: full
CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-6700HQ bits: 64 type: MT MCP
smt: enabled arch: Skylake-S rev: 3 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB
L3: 6 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1268 high: 2769 min/max: 800/3500 cores: 1: 2769
2: 2004 3: 1373 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 801 8: 800 bogomips: 41621
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 530 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel ports:
active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2, HDMI-A-3
bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:191b class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GM204M [GeForce GTX 970M] vendor: Dell driver: nvidia
v: 510.60.02 pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 ports: active: none
empty: HDMI-A-4 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:13d8 class-ID: 0302
Device-3: Sunplus Innovation Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB
driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-7:5 chip-ID: 1bcf:2b8c class-ID: 0e02
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting,nvidia gpu: i915 display-ID: :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 0x0459 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 128
size: 382x215mm (15.04x8.46") diag: 438mm (17.3") modes: 1920x1080
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 530 (SKL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.0
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 100 Series/C230 Series Family HD Audio vendor: Dell
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a170
class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.32-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: sndio v: N/A running: no
Sound Server-3: JACK v: 1.9.20 running: no
Sound Server-4: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Sound Server-5: PipeWire v: 0.3.49 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2400 Gigabit Ethernet driver: alx
v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 3b:00.0
chip-ID: 1969:e0a1 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp59s0 state: down mac: f8:ca:b8:47:16:2c
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Rivet Networks Killer Wireless-n/a/ac 1535 driver: ath10k_pci
v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3c:00.0
chip-ID: 168c:003e class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp60s0 state: up mac: 9c:b6:d0:07:03:85
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA61x4 Bluetooth 4.0 type: USB driver: btusb
v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-5:4 chip-ID: 0cf3:e300 class-ID: e001
Report: bt-adapter ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down
bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes
address: 9C:B6:D0:07:03:86
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci
v: 3.0 port: f060 bus-ID: 00:17.0 chip-ID: 8086:282a rev: N/A
class-ID: 0104
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.73 TiB used: 1.1 TiB (40.3%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Kingston model: SKC2500M82000G size: 1.82 TiB
speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: 50026B7684DC848C rev: S7781101
temp: 37.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: HGST (Hitachi) model: HTS721010A9E630
size: 931.51 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: JR10004M0BKLPF
rev: A3P0 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 98.88 GiB used: 68.2 GiB (69.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4
ID-2: /home size: 1.69 TiB used: 299.48 GiB (17.3%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 512 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
file: /swapfile
ID-2: swap-2 type: file size: 1.69 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -3
file: /var/lib/swapspace/2
ID-3: swap-3 type: file size: 1.49 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -4
file: /var/lib/swapspace/1
ID-4: swap-4 type: zram size: 1.53 GiB used: 1.5 MiB (0.1%) priority: 100
dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 53.0 C pch: 58.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 273 Uptime: 6m wakeups: 1 Memory: 7.63 GiB
used: 5.12 GiB (67.1%) Init: systemd v: 250 Compilers: gcc: 11.2.0
clang: 13.0.1 Packages: 2023 pacman: 2005 snap: 18 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16
running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.14
I noticed both Pulse and Pipwire running. Is that OK? I think it was only Pulse before. There were some Pipewire updates, so maybe they turned it on? Is Pipewire in conflict with Pulse?
EDIT: Here is the list of all removed packaged, 1,5 month back:
crda
boost
python-py3nvml
ython-typing_extensions
python-injector
plasma-sdk
expac
oniguruma
auracle
jq
pacaur
kross
kross-interpreters
gtk-theme-maia
breath-dark-icon-theme
breath-wallpaper
libnm-glib
lib32-libgudev
lib32-libnm-glib
lua52-expat
lua52-lpeg
lua52-luajson
lua52-bitop
libquvi-scripts
libquvi
http-parser
libgit2
python-pbr
python-mock
python-anytree
glib2-docs
gtk-doc
vala
sof-firmware
python-beaker
python-markupsafe
python-mako
gobject-introspection
libcmis
python-wheel
python-xmltodict
python-pycryptodome
python-nose
nasm
python-coverage
zita-alsa-pcmi
zita-resampler
schroedinger
qbs
libquicktime
libotr
libofa
go
nautilus-sendto
gist
help2man
gtk-theme-breath
celt
crypto++
cbindgen
breath2-wallpaper
I don’t see any possible culprit here, but maybe someone will recognize something, maybe in python packages?
List of all microphone devices:
michaldybczak alienware-PC ~ sudo arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: CA0132 Analog [CA0132 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 2: CA0132 Analog Mic-In2 [CA0132 Analog Mic-In2]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 4: CA0132 What U Hear [CA0132 What U Hear]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
When I tried to record a sample, I got error:
michaldybczak alienware-PC ~ sudo arecord -f S16_LE -d 10 -r 16000 --device="hw:0,2" /tmp/test-mic.wav
Recording WAVE '/tmp/test-mic.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 16000 Hz, Mono
arecord: set_params:1358: Channels count non available