I have been using Arch for quite some time now and the microphone used to work perfectly. But yesterday, I installed pavucontrol and suddenly the mic stopped working, i.e. no audio is picked up even though the mic is recognised by PulseAudio.
I have ALSA installed as well.
Here are some relevant info:
arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC236 Analog [ALC236 Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Any help is appreciated :)
Edit: Sorry if it wasn't clear enough. PulseAudio was already installed a long time ago, the output and input worked perfectly. But yesterday, when I installed pavucontrol, the mic stopped recording audio (I found out from a call) but it is recognised as an input device.
Here's a screenshot of input devices from pavucontrol:
pavucontrol
or Pulseaudio as well, how you found out your microphone is not working, and whatpavucontrol
shows when you try to record from the microphone. (Guess: it picks the wrong source).arecord
, I always get the error:ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:600:(snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) unable to open slave
even though there is no other application using the mic