Microphone NOT working on Ubuntu 16.04
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 there may be a problem with my computer's drivers]:
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
drivers sound pulseaudio alsa microphone
asked May 26 '17 at 14:42
Brian BriuBrian Briu
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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 there may be a problem with my computer's drivers]:
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
drivers sound pulseaudio alsa microphone
asked May 26 '17 at 14:42
Brian BriuBrian Briu
614
Option 3 worked. All I had to do was picking a profile with both 'Input and output'
– Bee
Nov 14 '17 at 9:10
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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 there may be a problem with my computer's drivers]:
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
drivers sound pulseaudio alsa microphone
asked May 26 '17 at 14:42
Brian BriuBrian Briu
614
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 there may be a problem with my computer's drivers]:
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
drivers sound pulseaudio alsa microphone
drivers sound pulseaudio alsa microphone
asked May 26 '17 at 14:42
Brian BriuBrian Briu
614
asked May 26 '17 at 14:42
Brian BriuBrian Briu
614
asked May 26 '17 at 14:42
Brian BriuBrian Briu
614
asked May 26 '17 at 14:42
Brian BriuBrian Briu
614
asked May 26 '17 at 14:42
Brian BriuBrian Briu
614
614
Option 3 worked. All I had to do was picking a profile with both 'Input and output'
– Bee
Nov 14 '17 at 9:10
add a comment |
Option 3 worked. All I had to do was picking a profile with both 'Input and output'
– Bee
Nov 14 '17 at 9:10
Option 3 worked. All I had to do was picking a profile with both 'Input and output'
– Bee
Nov 14 '17 at 9:10
Option 3 worked. All I had to do was picking a profile with both 'Input and output'
– Bee
Nov 14 '17 at 9:10
add a comment |
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I had a similar issue and tried everything you said. Finally, from alsamixer I changed the Channel option which was 6ch, to 4ch or 2ch, and the mic started capturing input, don't know why...
answered Sep 5 '17 at 10:14
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Option 3 worked.
looking at the Configuration panel in pavucontrol and setting it to Analog Stereo Duplex
All I had to do was picking a profile with both 'Input and output'
answered Nov 14 '17 at 9:11
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I had a similar issue and tried everything you said. Finally, from alsamixer I changed the Channel option which was 6ch, to 4ch or 2ch, and the mic started capturing input, don't know why...
answered Sep 5 '17 at 10:14
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I had a similar issue and tried everything you said. Finally, from alsamixer I changed the Channel option which was 6ch, to 4ch or 2ch, and the mic started capturing input, don't know why...
answered Sep 5 '17 at 10:14
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I had a similar issue and tried everything you said. Finally, from alsamixer I changed the Channel option which was 6ch, to 4ch or 2ch, and the mic started capturing input, don't know why...
answered Sep 5 '17 at 10:14
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I had a similar issue and tried everything you said. Finally, from alsamixer I changed the Channel option which was 6ch, to 4ch or 2ch, and the mic started capturing input, don't know why...
answered Sep 5 '17 at 10:14
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Option 3 worked.
looking at the Configuration panel in pavucontrol and setting it to Analog Stereo Duplex
All I had to do was picking a profile with both 'Input and output'
answered Nov 14 '17 at 9:11
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Option 3 worked.
looking at the Configuration panel in pavucontrol and setting it to Analog Stereo Duplex
All I had to do was picking a profile with both 'Input and output'
answered Nov 14 '17 at 9:11
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Option 3 worked.
looking at the Configuration panel in pavucontrol and setting it to Analog Stereo Duplex
All I had to do was picking a profile with both 'Input and output'
answered Nov 14 '17 at 9:11
BeeBee
1256
Option 3 worked.
looking at the Configuration panel in pavucontrol and setting it to Analog Stereo Duplex
All I had to do was picking a profile with both 'Input and output'
answered Nov 14 '17 at 9:11
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answered Nov 14 '17 at 9:11
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Option 3 worked. All I had to do was picking a profile with both 'Input and output'
– Bee
Nov 14 '17 at 9:10