[arch-general] ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11 mic not working

[Iyán Méndez Veiga]

On Monday, 4 July 2022 16:47:46 CEST Fons Adriaensen via arch-general wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 04:29:13PM +0200, Iyán Méndez Veiga via arch-general 
wrote:
> > In any case, I have a X1 Yoga Gen 6, which is (apart from the screen and
> > chasis) equivalent to the X1 Carbon Gen 9 (with an Intel Gen 11), and I
> > have no issues with the mic or the speakers. Everything works out of the
> > box, but I'm using pipewire.
> > 
> > Would you consider trying pipewire or is it a no go for you?
> 
> As far as I'm aware, Pipewire sits on top of ALSA. So in your
> case I'd expect just ALSA to work as well. Maybe you could test...

What do you want me to try?

I'm not an expert and I never looked into too much detail about this. Pipewire 
simply works for me.

For example, running `arecord --duration=5 --format=dat test-mic.wav` doesn't 
work but selecting pipewire with flag -D does the trick `arecord -D pipewire --
duration=5 --format=dat test-mic.wav`

Also, double check that the microphone is not disabled by the laptop (Fn + 
F4), although the led makes it easy to spot. And in alsamixer the word 
"Capture" dissapears if the mic is disabled.

Btw, I don't have any custom files in /etc/modprobe.d/ regarding audio.

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Iyán Méndez Veiga
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