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

[Sadeep Madurange]

I tried installing pipewire but capture is still not working. So, I uninstalled pipewire again. Also, I removed the audiofix.conf from /etc/modprobe.d/. After deleting the file my LED lights for speaker and mic mute/unmute are working now. However, capture is still not working. After deleting the audiofix file, the output of arecord -l has changed to the following.
  	
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: sofhdadsp [sof-hda-dsp], device 0: HDA Analog (*) []
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: sofhdadsp [sof-hda-dsp], device 6: DMIC (*) []
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: sofhdadsp [sof-hda-dsp], device 7: DMIC16kHz (*) []
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

I need to install sof-firmare though. Without that, even the speakers don't work and no device get listed in the above output.

On 2022-07-04 20:56:56, Iyán Méndez Veiga via arch-general wrote:
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Iyán Méndez Veiga
> GPG: 0x422E3694311E5AC1

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