As the title suggests, my rear input microphone is not being detected by OpenSUSE. At first it was only detecting my LifeCam HD-3000 as a microphone, and I did some Googling and went into YaST to go into Sound and configure the audio devices, after doing so my sound is working just as it did before, but my rear input microphone still isn’t (Just as a note I have restarted the PC, no effect) being detected. In “Audio Recording>Communication” there is “HDA Intel, AD1984 Analog (Default Audio Device)”, “HDA Intel (AD1984 Analog)”, and two entries for the LifeCam which aren’t even worth noting, I do not want to use my webcam as my microphone. Just in case the question comes along, it is a Logitech desktop microphone, don’t ask me the model exactly, because I don’t know it. I bought this thing two or so years ago and have long since thrown away the box, the ONLY words on the thing are “Logitech”.
Check level and see if it is muted also
Install pavulcontrol and see if that mic port is connected
The device is not detected by pavucontrol, only my LifeCam is listed in Input Devices.
Well it looks like it’s managed to add itself into there now? There is now an option in input devices “Built-in Audio Analog Stereo” and the Port is defaulted to “Line In (plugged in)” which is what Windows usually detects the thing as until I set it to be a microphone via Soundmax… Now the question is how do I get it to recognize the Line In device as my microphone? Edit: Alright, this “Line In” device seems to not be picking up my audio in the first place, when looking at the sound meter thingy it just shows a constant twitching stream of audio, nothing when I tap the mic. I’d assume that constant stream is just fuzz, switching the port via the software does nothing. If I unplug the mic it switches to the “Analog Input” which displays the same twitching stream of audio.
Same difference all that is cared about is the input stream that name we meat sacks give to the device is unimportant.
In pavulcontrol you can set the input stream
Are you sure you don’t have a mic input? typically marked green
Plugging the microphone into the front port actually fixes the problem, everything works fine that way, but I would like to be able to use the back port because I dislike seeing wires and I always use the back port. Edit: @“Same difference all that is cared about is the input stream that name we meat sacks give to the device is unimportant.” I’d like to disagree, in Windows if I set the device as a line-in device I recall it showing the same constant fuzz stream, only calling it a microphone through SoundMAX allowed it to be used as one.
Please check the pavulcontrol as I said you should be able to choose it there but it still is called line in and does not magically change its name to micrphone
Setting the device as the default device is no longer the issue, I have done that, and as I said it is still emitting a constant stream of fuzz. Edit: I’ve played around with the Built-in Audio settings in Configuration, each one (Except when set as output of course) displays the same constant stream of fuzz, I can only assume at this point that there is some sort of driver issue.
I’m not sure if this is necessary but here is the output when running lspci in a terminal.
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express DRAM Controller (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 92)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801IO (ICH9DO) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801IR/IO/IH (ICH9R/DO/DH) 4 port SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) 2 port SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Caicos [Radeon HD 6450/7450/8450 / R5 230 OEM]
01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Caicos HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6400 Series]
maybe but line in general is different then Mic It may even be a different plug type Also gain may be different. Use the bar in pavulcontrol to monitor input and turn down the gain
Turning down the gain gets rid of the fuzz, but there is no input from the mic.
I’ve decided to just take the easy way out here and I found a way to run the wire to where it won’t be very visible, I’m using my front microphone jack now and it works just fine.
Maybe I should make a new topic about this because it is something else entirely, I wouldn’t exactly call it a “problem” either… How do I get “stereo mix”?