I just installed LinuxMint19 64 bit on my laptop together with the updates and cannot get the internal mic to work. It worked OK 3 years ago on an earlier Mint version together with Alsamixer.
Now Alsamixer starts and displays only this information:
┌────────────────────────────── AlsaMixer v1.1.3 ──────────────────────────────┐
│ Card: HDA ATI HDMI F1: Help │
│ Chip: ATI R6xx HDMI F2: System information │
│ View: F3:[Playback] F4: Capture F5: All F6: Select sound card │
│ Item: S/PDIF Esc: Exit │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ ┌──┐ │
│ │OO│ │
│ └──┘ │
│ < S/PDIF > │
│ ________________________________________________________________________________
Alsamixer graphical mixer console display is missing.
Sound is OK when videos play back, but the internal mic won't work on "hangouts"
Here's the output of
inxi -Fxz
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denis@denis-X550EA:~$ inxi -Fxz
System: Host: denis-X550EA Kernel: 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
bits: 64 gcc: 7.3.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 3.8.8 (Gtk 3.22.30-1ubuntu1)
Distro: Linux Mint 19 Tara
Machine: Device: laptop System: ASUSTeK product: X550EA v: 1.0 serial: N/A
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: X550EA v: 1.0 serial: N/A
UEFI: American Megatrends v: X550EA.303 date: 03/13/2014
Battery BAT0: charge: 31.1 Wh 100.1% condition: 31.1/37.8 Wh (82%)
model: ASUSTek X550A26 status: Full
CPU: Quad core AMD A4-5000 APU with Radeon HD Graphics (-MCP-)
arch: Jaguar rev.1 cache: 2048 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 11977
clock speeds: max: 1500 MHz 1: 807 MHz 2: 994 MHz 3: 827 MHz
4: 896 MHz
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Kabini [Radeon HD 8330]
bus-ID: 00:01.0
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 )
drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1366x768@59.99hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD KABINI (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.15.0-20-generic, LLVM 6.0.0)
version: 4.5 Mesa 18.0.0-rc5 Direct Render: Yes
Audio: Card-1 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:14.2
Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Kabini HDMI/DP Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:01.1
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.15.0-20-generic
Network: Card-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter
driver: ath9k bus-ID: 01:00.0
IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Card-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCIE Gigabit Ethernet Controller
driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: e000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 750.2GB (1.2% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: TOSHIBA_MQ01ABD0 size: 750.2GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 457G used: 8.3G (2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 56.9C mobo: N/A gpu: 57.0
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 3200
Info: Processes: 189 Uptime: 44 min Memory: 1772.0/5397.8MB
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 7.3.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.4.191) inxi: 2.3.56
The Sound Settings/Input?Device shows the Internal Microphone Device highlighted, but the device settings selection box below shows the Input Level at below 10% and there's no graphical button to change it, unlike the Volume slider above it
This is my first post and I tried to include only pertinent clues.
Lemme know if it's too wordy and I'll keep the next trimmed down.
Thanks for your time and
cheers,
Denis
