Mic won't work solved

[betch23]

Hello Everyone. I am a bit of a newbie to Linux. I installed Mint. After I updated it, my microphone jack on my IBM laptop won't work. I have tested the mic with sound recorder and skype, but nothing. I get sound fine, but no mic. Any help would be very appreciated.

Thanks in Advance

[Husse]

There seems to be a general problems with jacks for sound.....
Please tell us at least something about your laptop if we are to help you.
Not so much the model of the laptop as it's mostly completely hopeless to find anything out from that
Which soundchip(s)?
If you don't have documentation do

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lspci | grep audio

Which version of Mint?

[betch23]

Does this help?

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port (rev 0c)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566MM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Contoller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HBM (ICH8M-E) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 140M (rev a1)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection (rev 61)
15:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b6)

[betch23]

I forgot to mention. I can hear my voice through my speakers, but I can't record any sound with the sound recorder or get any sound from the MIC on Skype. Hope this helps.

[Mattd4AX3]

Ah, well since you can hear your voice, I know the problem.

Open volume control>edit>preferences>

Check mark microphone&micboost, if you have it plugged into the front mic port check the front mics not the mic.
Check mark analog mix, if your hearing yourself through your speakers chances are your mic is working you just haven't setup the recording.


In preferences checkmark the capture option, in addition to the input source option, just check the first of each, input and capture.

Two new tabs should have appeared in your volume control, the ones we're looking for are recording and options.
Make sure capture is turned on, not muted, then go in input and change the input source dropdown to where you want the recording to come from.(IE front mic boost,mic boost, etc)


You should have the input source correctly set, capture turned on and set to at least 70%, mute analog mix so you can stop hearing yourself, depending on your mic setup; in playback your mic needs to be set to a estimated tolerable volume.

Open sound recorder, select capture or whatever microphone you set it to, and it should work fine.

[betch23]

Okay, I didn't realize that you had to right click on the sound icon in the corner, but after that, it began to work. Thanks!