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

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 10:25:14AM +0800, Sadeep Madurange via arch-general wrote:

> **** 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

This means that to record from the built-in mic you need

arecord -D hw:0,6 <other args>
        ^^^^^^^^^

The default (probably -D hw:0,0) would record from the HDA
device, which may be wired to an extern mic input or not
at all.

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FA