Microphone Not working on Manjaro Linux Pahvo

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Hello,

Sorry for the really noob question.

I have setup Manjaro Linux 21.1.1 on my Ryzen 5 laptop. I have currently tried to tinker around with pulseaudio to figure out the issue, but I still am not able to get my microphone to work. My speakers are working normally but I can’t figure out the issue with my microphone. Any pointers to fix the issue would be really helpful

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Does your microphone work with alsamixer ?

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No, I don’t think it is able to detect it

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You don’t give much information, and whatever you tried.
In case you didn’t try that yet, try below:

$ sudo arecord -l

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Hello @panv

Here is the info I got—

**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 1: Generic_1 [HD-Audio Generic], device 0: ALC236 Analog [ALC236 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
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Ok. you alsa is able to detect a microphone on card 1.
Let’s see about pulseaudio…

Try:

pacmd list-sources | grep -e index -e name: -e muted -e device.description

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I get this message–

No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
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Generic driver will not work. You will likely need to find the right chipset driver made by realtek…etc if there is one, in AUR repo, and install it manually.

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For more info, here is my output for sudo dmesg | grep snd—

[   13.166137] snd_pci_acp3x 0000:02:00.5: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[   13.166403] snd_pci_acp3x 0000:02:00.5: ACP audio mode : 1
[   14.070903] snd_hda_intel 0000:02:00.1: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[   14.071075] snd_hda_intel 0000:02:00.1: Handle vga_switcheroo audio client
[   14.071342] snd_hda_intel 0000:02:00.6: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[   14.234508] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC1D0: autoconfig for ALC236: line_outs=1 (0x14/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0) type:speaker
[   14.234520] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC1D0:    speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[   14.234525] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC1D0:    hp_outs=1 (0x21/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[   14.234531] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC1D0:    mono: mono_out=0x0
[   14.234534] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC1D0:    inputs:
[   14.234536] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC1D0:      Mic=0x19
[   14.234540] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC1D0:      Internal Mic=0x12
[   16.384860] snd_hda_intel 0000:02:00.1: bound 0000:02:00.0 (ops amdgpu_dm_audio_component_bind_ops [amdgpu])
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Here is the result from inxi -Faxzy. I am copying the Audio section here, but can provide the full output if needed:

  Device-1: AMD Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Lenovo
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 02:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:15de
  class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor vendor: Lenovo
  driver: snd_pci_acp3x v: kernel alternate: snd_rn_pci_acp3x bus-ID: 02:00.5
  chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480
  Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel
  v: kernel bus-ID: 02:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.13.19-2-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
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I’d boot into Windows and check under device manager/ sound and see what the chipset is or check your manufacture’s website and then find the correct Linux driver

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In Windows, the drivers are registered under Realtek. So do I need to install the proprietary drivers of Realtek into Manjaro?

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actually, this will likely help:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PulseAudio/Troubleshooting#Microphone_not_detected_by_PulseAudio

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Tried this solution. Unless I did something wrong, it didn’t work

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Data in post #5 shows system has a Realtek ALC236 audio codec
Device is recognised in post #10 system data as Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio
and is using the correct Linux audio driver snd_hda_intel

Kernel v5.13 is no longer supported in Manjaro repositories

I suggest you install kernel v5.15 using Manjaro Settings Manager GUI
( manjaro-settings-manager -m msm_kernel )

OR use these terminal commands to install new kernel and remove old one

sudo mhwd-kernel --install linux515

sudo mhwd-kernel --remove linux513

When you have rebooted to system to load the new kernel, please post more information about ALSA settings for audio device

amixer --card=1

and PulseAudio configuration

pacmd dump && pacmd list-cards