[–] [S] 3 points 2 years ago

Thank you for pointing me at bias voltage, I've never heard of that. The text explicitly mentions condenser mics requiring that voltage. Does this also apply to dynamic mics?

Besides, even if the signal is nasty, I would like to receive that in the system. So if this is an issue, it's currently rather a side quest.

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    I got a microphone connected via a XLR adapter to the rear mic jack of my mainboard. The audio dialog of KDE seems to detect that, as does not mark it as not connected (which it does for the front mic and line in). But selecting the audio device as source does not produce any useful sound. What makes you sure that the mic work, you may ask? If I enable the loopback in alsamixer (and pump up the boost), it works. Unfortunately, that is the only way I can get sound out of that.

    It seems, as if the system realizes two possible sources from the audio device. But there is no option GUI wise where I can select the second input to test if that helps.

    alsactl info
    #
    # Sound card
    #
    - card: 0
    [....]
    #
    # Sound card
    #
    - card: 1
      id: Generic
      name: HD-Audio Generic
      longname: HD-Audio Generic at 0xba600000 irq 68
      driver_name: HDA-Intel
      mixer_name: Realtek ALC1220
      components: HDA:10ec1168,10438724,00100003
      controls_count: 47
      pcm:
        - stream: PLAYBACK
          devices:
            - device: 0
              id: ALC1220 Analog
              name: ALC1220 Analog
              subdevices:
                - subdevice: 0
                  name: subdevice #0
            - device: 1
              id: ALC1220 Digital
              name: ALC1220 Digital
              subdevices:
                - subdevice: 0
                  name: subdevice #0
        - stream: CAPTURE
          devices:
            - device: 0
              id: ALC1220 Analog
              name: ALC1220 Analog
              subdevices:
                - subdevice: 0
                  name: subdevice #0
            - device: 2
              id: ALC1220 Alt Analog
              name: ALC1220 Alt Analog
              subdevices:
                - subdevice: 0
                  name: subdevice #0
      hwdep:
        - device: 0
          id: HDA Codec 0
          name: HDA Codec 0
          iface: 16
    [...]
    
    arecord -l                                            Do 14 Dez 2023 14:53:16 CET
    **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
    [...]
    card 1: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 0: ALC1220 Analog [ALC1220 Analog]
      Subdevices: 1/1
      Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
    card 1: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 2: ALC1220 Alt Analog [ALC1220 Alt Analog]
      Subdevices: 1/1
      Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
    [...]
    

    Does anyone have any clue what I could do to use that mic?

     

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