Microphone not working for zoom, slack, and e.t.c., also with airpods (manjaro first installed and upgrade to kernel 15.7)

Hi, I would like to use microphone for online conference software like zoom, google meeting, slack, and e.t.c. However, the microphone is malfunctioning for both system and using airpods. The speaker works well, but others just could not hear what I am saying. Any output that I need to share with here to check? Thank you so much!!!

try to install pipewire, run this command:

sudo pacman -Ru --nodeps pulseaudio pulseaudio-equalizer pulseaudio-jack pulseaudio-lirc pulseaudio-rtp pulseaudio-zeroconf pulseaudio-bluetooth pulseaudio-pa pulseaudio-alsa pulseaudio-ctl manjaro-pulse && sudo pacman -S manjaro-pipewire

then reboot and check if the mic works

something not found:

error: target not found: pulseaudio-equalizer
error: target not found: pulseaudio-jack
error: target not found: pulseaudio-lirc
error: target not found: pulseaudio-rtp
error: target not found: pulseaudio-pa

si it didnt install pipewire?
so post output from:
inxi -Fazy

it seems not install anything? And the output:

System:
  Kernel: 5.17.6-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.17-x86_64
    root=UUID=656f82a5-9bce-483f-ad5d-9f26d9c0346d rw pci=realloc
  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: Razer product: Blade 15 (2022) - RZ09-0421 v: 8.04
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Razer model: CH580 v: 4 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Razer
    v: 1.09 date: 02/22/2022
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 79.9 Wh (97.7%) condition: 81.8/80.2 Wh (102.0%)
    volts: 17.3 min: 15.4 model: Razer Blade type: Unknown serial: <filter>
    status: N/A
  ID-2: hidpp_battery_0 charge: 50% condition: N/A volts: 3.8 min: N/A
    model: Logitech G903 LIGHTSPEED Wireless Gaming Mouse w/ HERO type: N/A
    serial: <filter> status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: model: 12th Gen Intel Core i7-12800H bits: 64 type: MST AMCP
    arch: Alder Lake family: 6 model-id: 0x9A (154) stepping: 3 microcode: 0x418
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 14 mt: 6 tpc: 2 st: 8 threads: 20 smt: enabled
    cache: L1: 1.2 MiB desc: d-8x32 KiB, 6x48 KiB; i-6x32 KiB, 8x64 KiB
    L2: 11.5 MiB desc: 6x1.2 MiB, 2x2 MiB L3: 24 MiB desc: 1x24 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1430 high: 2406 min/max: 400/2400:1800 scaling:
    driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 1550 2: 511 3: 2232
    4: 928 5: 2400 6: 2406 7: 2395 8: 2400 9: 1134 10: 818 11: 756 12: 1932
    13: 1505 14: 872 15: 1141 16: 1249 17: 1620 18: 923 19: 942 20: 890
    bogomips: 112160
  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: 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 Alder Lake-P Integrated Graphics vendor: Razer USA
    driver: i915 v: kernel ports: active: eDP-1 empty: none bus-ID: 00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:46a6 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA GA103M [GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU] vendor: Razer USA
    driver: nvidia v: 510.68.02 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 515.xx+
    status: current (as of 2022-05) arch: Ampere pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 8 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:2460 class-ID: 0300
  Device-3: IMC Networks Integrated RGB Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 1-2:2 chip-ID: 13d3:5279 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.3 compositor: xfwm v: 4.16.1 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting,nvidia alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa gpu: i915
    display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 4480x1643 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1185x435mm (46.65x17.13")
    s-diag: 1262mm (49.7")
  Monitor-1: HDMI-1-0 pos: primary,top-right res: 2560x1440 hz: 60 dpi: 108
    size: 600x340mm (23.62x13.39") diag: 690mm (27.15") modes: N/A
  Monitor-2: eDP-1 pos: bottom-l res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142
    size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64") diag: 395mm (15.55") modes: N/A
  Message: Unable to show GL data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake PCH-P High Definition Audio vendor: Razer USA
    driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
    alternate: snd_hda_intel,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
    chip-ID: 8086:51c8 class-ID: 0401
  Device-2: NVIDIA vendor: Razer USA driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
    gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:2288 class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.17.6-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.51 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-P PCH CNVi WiFi vendor: Rivet Networks
    driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:51f0 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-10:6
    chip-ID: 8087:0033 class-ID: e001
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 57.05 GiB (6.0%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 model: NVMe CA6-8D1024 size: 953.87 GiB
    block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4
    type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: ERA0902 temp: 36.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 672.78 GiB size: 661.15 GiB (98.27%) used: 57 GiB (8.6%)
    fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 100 MiB size: 96 MiB (96.00%)
    used: 50.7 MiB (52.8%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 48.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 442 Uptime: 1h 18m wakeups: 8 Memory: 31.04 GiB
  used: 7.16 GiB (23.1%) Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl Compilers:
  gcc: 11.2.0 clang: 13.0.1 Packages: 1191 pacman: 1184 lib: 320 flatpak: 0
  snap: 7 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.16

so try to run only pulse, install this package:
sudo pacman -S manjaro-pulse - it will remove pipewire, then reboot and check mic

I will try this later (I am downloading something else now)! Thank you so much!

@brahma Hi I reboot it and it still not have mic. New output of inxi -Fazy

System:
  Kernel: 5.17.6-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.17-x86_64
    root=UUID=656f82a5-9bce-483f-ad5d-9f26d9c0346d rw pci=realloc
  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: Razer product: Blade 15 (2022) - RZ09-0421 v: 8.04
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Razer model: CH580 v: 4 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Razer
    v: 1.09 date: 02/22/2022
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 79.9 Wh (97.7%) condition: 81.8/80.2 Wh (102.0%)
    volts: 17.3 min: 15.4 model: Razer Blade type: Unknown serial: <filter>
    status: N/A
  ID-2: hidpp_battery_0 charge: 50% condition: N/A volts: 3.8 min: N/A
    model: Logitech G903 LIGHTSPEED Wireless Gaming Mouse w/ HERO type: N/A
    serial: <filter> status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: model: 12th Gen Intel Core i7-12800H bits: 64 type: MST AMCP
    arch: Alder Lake family: 6 model-id: 0x9A (154) stepping: 3 microcode: 0x418
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 14 mt: 6 tpc: 2 st: 8 threads: 20 smt: enabled
    cache: L1: 1.2 MiB desc: d-8x32 KiB, 6x48 KiB; i-6x32 KiB, 8x64 KiB
    L2: 11.5 MiB desc: 6x1.2 MiB, 2x2 MiB L3: 24 MiB desc: 1x24 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1217 high: 2195 min/max: 400/2400:1800 scaling:
    driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 1158 2: 689 3: 1912
    4: 1041 5: 2195 6: 1584 7: 1066 8: 736 9: 1049 10: 938 11: 1652 12: 1926
    13: 1602 14: 953 15: 884 16: 1102 17: 1296 18: 991 19: 799 20: 786
    bogomips: 112160
  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: 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 Alder Lake-P Integrated Graphics vendor: Razer USA
    driver: i915 v: kernel ports: active: eDP-1 empty: none bus-ID: 00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:46a6 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA GA103M [GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU] vendor: Razer USA
    driver: nvidia v: 510.68.02 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 515.xx+
    status: current (as of 2022-05) arch: Ampere pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s
    lanes: 8 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:2460 class-ID: 0300
  Device-3: IMC Networks Integrated RGB Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 1-2:2 chip-ID: 13d3:5279 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.3 compositor: xfwm v: 4.16.1 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting,nvidia alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa gpu: i915
    display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 4480x1643 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1185x435mm (46.65x17.13")
    s-diag: 1262mm (49.7")
  Monitor-1: HDMI-1-0 pos: primary,top-right res: 2560x1440 hz: 60 dpi: 108
    size: 600x340mm (23.62x13.39") diag: 690mm (27.15") modes: N/A
  Monitor-2: eDP-1 pos: bottom-l res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142
    size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64") diag: 395mm (15.55") modes: N/A
  Message: Unable to show GL data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake PCH-P High Definition Audio vendor: Razer USA
    driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
    alternate: snd_hda_intel,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
    chip-ID: 8086:51c8 class-ID: 0401
  Device-2: NVIDIA vendor: Razer USA driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
    gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 8 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:2288 class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.17.6-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.51 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-P PCH CNVi WiFi vendor: Rivet Networks
    driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:51f0 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-10:6
    chip-ID: 8087:0033 class-ID: e001
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 61.57 GiB (6.5%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 model: NVMe CA6-8D1024 size: 953.87 GiB
    block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4
    type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: ERA0902 temp: 38.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 672.78 GiB size: 661.15 GiB (98.27%)
    used: 61.52 GiB (9.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 100 MiB size: 96 MiB (96.00%)
    used: 50.7 MiB (52.8%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 27.8 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 423 Uptime: 4m wakeups: 4 Memory: 31.04 GiB
  used: 3.45 GiB (11.1%) Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl Compilers:
  gcc: 11.2.0 clang: 13.0.1 Packages: 1197 pacman: 1187 lib: 320 flatpak: 0
  snap: 10 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.16

and did you installed the package manjaro-pulse? because it shows that you still running both pulse and pipewire

I just did sudo pacman -S manjaro-pulse like what you said before. Any further instruction here?

so whats the output from:
inxi -Audio

here:

Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake PCH-P High Definition Audio
    driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
  Device-2: NVIDIA driver: snd_hda_intel
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.17.6-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.51 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-P PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: 7c:21:4a:2f:d5:82
  IP v4: 10.0.0.145/24 type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
  IP v6: 2601:449:8480:1a70::1085/128 type: dynamic noprefixroute
    scope: global
  IP v6: 2601:449:8480:1a70:b209:84c5:4ae0:4c6/64
    type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
  IP v6: fe80::6151:4f76:36e4:947f/64 type: noprefixroute scope: link
  WAN IP: 73.242.10.14
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 61.6 GiB (6.5%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 model: NVMe CA6-8D1024 size: 953.87 GiB
  Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1p2 size: 16 MiB fs: <superuser required> uuid: N/A
  ID-2: /dev/nvme0n1p3 size: 261.74 GiB fs: ntfs uuid: 2AFE8EADFE8E713D
  ID-3: /dev/nvme0n1p4 size: 1000 MiB fs: ntfs uuid: A2A48F39A48F0ECB

it didnt removed pipewire … so run this command:
sudo pacman -S manjaro-pipewire
it will give you dependency issues, so uninstall them first, then run install again, reboot and check mic

sorry I am new to manjaro, will the commend you provided uninstall and reinstall that?

ok , so run the command and post the output here

resolving dependencies...
:: There are 2 providers available for pipewire-session-manager:
:: Repository extra
   1) pipewire-media-session  2) wireplumber

Enter a number (default=1): 

select 1

I assume that it should be all removed?

looking for conflicting packages...
:: manjaro-pipewire and manjaro-pulse are in conflict. Remove manjaro-pulse? [y/N] y
:: manjaro-pipewire and pulseaudio-zeroconf are in conflict. Remove pulseaudio-zeroconf? [y/N] y

yes, press ‘y’

done. I will reboot to see if it worked