SoundBlaster G5 USB and Linux Mint Cinn 20.1

[Davfor7]

Hello all. This problem I have seems to be one that people like me have a Sound Blaster external USB sound card and the microphone not showing up in the GUI audio options. Just the Digital Input and Line In but no Microphone. Seems this has been a problem for a long long time with no fix for years. I did run across a CLI line that does work but have to make it a script to run at Startup. But I don't know how to do that. Still a novice on Linux. Here is some info of my system:

aplay -l

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**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 10: HDMI 4 [HDMI 4]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 11: HDMI 5 [HDMI 5]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 12: HDMI 6 [HDMI 6]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: G5 [Sound BlasterX G5], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

inxi -Fxz

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System:    Kernel: 5.4.0-77-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.8.6 
           Distro: Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:   Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME Z270-A v: Rev 1.xx serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1302 
           date: 03/15/2018 
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-6700K bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Skylake-S rev: 3 L2 cache: 8192 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 63999 
           Speed: 900 MHz min/max: 800/4200 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 900 2: 901 3: 900 4: 900 5: 900 6: 900 7: 900 8: 900 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GP104 [GeForce GTX 1080] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: nvidia v: 460.80 bus ID: 01:00.0 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa 
           resolution: 1920x1200~60Hz, 1920x1200~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1080/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 460.80 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: NVIDIA GP104 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 
           Device-2: Creative type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus ID: 1-2.1:4 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-77-generic 
Network:   Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: ASUSTeK driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: f000 bus ID: 00:1f.6 
           IF: enp0s31f6 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 5.70 TiB used: 83.72 GiB (1.4%) 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Kingston model: SA2000M8250G size: 232.89 GiB 
           ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 vendor: Kingston model: SA2000M8250G size: 232.89 GiB 
           ID-3: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 PRO 512GB size: 476.94 GiB 
           ID-4: /dev/sdb vendor: Crucial model: CT480M500SSD1 size: 447.13 GiB 
           ID-5: /dev/sdc vendor: Crucial model: FCCT1024M550SSD1 size: 953.87 GiB 
           ID-6: /dev/sdd vendor: Western Digital model: WD1001FALS-00Y6A0 size: 931.51 GiB 
           ID-7: /dev/sde vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EVDS-63U8B0 size: 931.51 GiB 
           ID-8: /dev/sdf vendor: Western Digital model: WD20EZRX-00D8PB0 size: 1.82 TiB 
RAID:      Hardware-1: Intel SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci v: 3.0 bus ID: 00:17.0 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 114.12 GiB used: 41.74 GiB (36.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme1n1p1 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 32.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 41 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0% 
Info:      Processes: 276 Uptime: 47m Memory: 15.58 GiB used: 2.24 GiB (14.4%) Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 
           Shell: bash v: 5.0.17 inxi: 3.0.38 

amixer

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Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',1
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',2
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',3
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',4
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',5
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',6
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]

mesg | grep snd

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[    4.911471] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
[    6.029585] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: Disabling MSI
[    6.029589] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: Handle vga_switcheroo audio client

The command used to make the Microphone work is this one:

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amixer -c 1 sset 'PCM Capture Source' 'External Mic'

What are the steps to have this run at Startup?

[Davfor7]

Hi! Been a little while since I checked here. Did I not post enough info or is there no permanent solution it this weird issue? Thanks!

[Arch_Enemy]

What does PulseAudio volume control show?

If you don't have it installed, try it.

Alsa loads by default. Does the Alsa Mixer show it?

[Hoser Rob]

I'd look into this post from reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/SoundBlasterOf ... &context=3