It was ENABLED of course, but I've changed it to disable, then enabled again, and saved with F10. None of the "tricks" worked until I have re-checked whether my internal mic is enabled or disabled in BIOS. I've tried adding different entries to nf file with commandįinally this one was what I needed (but only turned out after step 4.): Ran "alsamixer" command from terminal to make sure my mic is not muted (press "m" to mute/onmute on the device also I disabled "automute" here (up/down arrow)Īfter I looked up all entries matching my hardware Connexant by scrolling over alsa docu file on my laptop,
Skype microphone setup drivers#
Installed the nightly alsa drivers for my distribution following this guide
Here is what I did, which finally solved my problem (Ubuntu 14.10, alsa driver) I have struggled for days to have my internal mic working, everything else worked (external mic, audio, HDMI audio) though. I have a Lenovo x201 with Conexant CX20585 (learned it from cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec Can I use my headphone microphone? I am having beats headphones.Įven Now My system sound OUTPUT connector option is gone here is the screen shot It's freaking me out and my microphone problem is after 12.04. I even hear a noise when I don't play anything. Internal Speakers and headphone or 5.1 speakers both works at same time but still the microphone is not working. When I type pulseaudio in terminal it shows me E: pid.c: Daemon already running.Į: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.Īfter all this, my sound system started behaving abnormally.
Skype microphone setup install#
However on the last command: sudo apt-get install linux-alsa-driver-modules-$(uname -r)Į: Unable to locate package linux-alsa-driver-modules-3.2.0-27-generic-paeĮ: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-alsa-driver-modules-3.2.0-27-generic-pae' Sudo apt-get install linux-alsa-driver-modules-$(uname -r) I've also upgraded alsa sound drivers by running: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev/ppa It fixed my system sound but still no sound on Skype microphone.Īfter that, I tried this command echo "options snd-hda-intel model=acer" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/nf > /dev/null
I then tried echo "autospawn = yes" > ~/.pulse/nf Turn PulseAudio autospawn off, normally: $ echo "autospawn = no" > ~/.pulse/nf killall pulseaudioīut this did not help me and it disabled my sound after my system restarted.
I have 1 mic attached to the system and another one in my headphone (Beats by Dr.