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(HARDWARE?) mic just produces usb noise and doesnt pick up audio (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by IFREDBON@lemmy.ml to c/techsupport@lemmy.world

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first im not good at linux i chose mint cuz i just want it to work
on my main machine the mic produces just random noise
while on my secondary one the mic works no problem
basically every detail on my device is available on the linux mint forum
altho i posted this due to it being almost 3 months and a thousand views without comments so i decided to comment it here

after recent testing it seems like it is a hardware issue and not a os, bios, dependency, ect issue

where the mic doesnt pick up anything and produces usb noise

(the mic isnt the problem as it works on my phone and my secondary machine)

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[–] moody@lemmings.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I had a similar issue previously. The cause appeared to be that the sample rate of the microphone didn't match what the OS was expecting. The solution was to limit the sample rates that the microphone and the sound card were allowed to use.

I don't remember where to go to fix it, but I had to edit some config file and reboot, and then it worked fine.

[–] IFREDBON@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

so i tried searching and found this one
and weirdly enough my pc has the daemon.conf file and my laptop doesnt
in the (laptop)pulse/ has only client.conf and client.conf.d folder
also i have no clue what is the freq rate for this
the specs only have freq range
changed sample rate and tried to kill pulseaudio as outlined but it isnt running
so i changed the main rate to 48000 and alt is 44100

[–] moody@lemmings.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

44k has been standard for several decades, but not everything supports 48k. If this is what's causing your issues, you'll want everything to run 44k only on all audio devices liated.

I don't know if that will fix your problem, but it did fix mine.

[–] IFREDBON@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

oh it was running at 44k changed it(like 2 seconds ago) to 48 with no solution
i changed it back with no fix still
also i tried to make both to be 44100 but that gave me in the sound settings a flashing no mic is available error

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

so im not the best but with what you said before with your other laptop not having the file I would usually try to rename the file with like a .bak extension on the end and restart and see if it just worked. then you just remove the .bak if you want to get back to where you were.

[–] IFREDBON@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

renaming or cutting the file to a diff folder even with root permission doesnt do anything since i dont even have pulse running if it was running diff story