Today I decided I will install Ubuntu 16.04 alongside my Windows 10 in a dual-boot system. After installing everything, I decided to install Discord to talk with some friends, then I noticed that my mic wasn't working. I thought that there may be a problem with my Discord install, but there isn't after I checked that my mic wasn't working in many more programs (including System Settings > Sound where no sound was showing up).
I also have to mention that my sound is working completetly fine. It's just the mic that's not working. Microphone is part of my headset (CREATIVE Sound BlasterX H7).
I checked all the forums and tried many different solutions. Some of them were:
checking that the microphone isn't muted (it isn't);
checking my settings in the pavucontrol panel. Trying to split the channels and lowering each channel at a time to check if the mic will work after that;
looking at the Configuration panel in pavucontrol and setting it to Analog Stereo Duplex
looking at the alsamixer and checking that the mic isn't muted (look at the pictures below) [I may have overlooked this step]
trying to install a new vivid alsa dkms driver
restarting the audio drivers
I am 100% sure my microphone is functioning, since I can use it without any problems on Windows 10 or on any other machine.
Imporant specs [since the problem may be linked to my hardware]:
i7-6700k Skylake / z170x gaming 7 Gigabyte / 2 monitors each having its own speakers
You can find all the images here
And here you can see all the audio devices:
➜ ~ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: CA0132 Analog [CA0132 Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: CA0132 Digital [CA0132 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
aplayer -c0 mixer
andcat /proc/asound/card0/codec\#*
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