Hi! I installed Zorin OS 17.3 today, and it's running very smoothly. However, my internal microphone is not being detected. I discovered this when I tried talking with some friends on Discord, and they couldn't hear me. I attempted to tweak some settings, but the option to switch microphones was empty. I also used PulseAudio Volume Control (pavucontrol), and the microphone appeared, but I couldn't enable it.
Hi and welcome. Brave A.I. search engine via mojeek suggests:
"#
Realtek Microphone Issue in Discord
Users experiencing issues with Realtek microphones not working on Ubuntu 22.04 in Discord can try several troubleshooting steps. First, ensure that the microphone is detected by the system. If it is not, users can attempt to override the microphone settings in hdajackretask, selecting the appropriate codec and setting the microphone to "Microphone" in the dropdown selection.36 Additionally, updating sound/audio drivers and software can help resolve detection issues.
If the microphone is detected but still not working in Discord, users should check their Discord app permissions to make sure Microphone and Camera permissions are enabled. In Discord's Voice & Video Settings, users can also adjust input levels and disable auto gain to improve microphone performance.
For Realtek ALC4080 codec users, specific model configurations in the alsa-base.conf file might be necessary. Adding a line like options snd-hda-intel model=alc4080 to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and then rebooting the machine can help.
If these steps do not resolve the issue, users might consider switching to a different sound server like Pipewire, which has better support for Bluetooth profiles including HFP and HSP. This involves adding a PPA for Pipewire and following the installation steps.
In summary, users should ensure proper microphone detection, update drivers, configure codec settings, and adjust Discord settings to resolve Realtek microphone issues on Ubuntu 22.04"
(Zorin 17 is a fork of Ubuntu 22.04)
Can you post a screenshot of that? is enable switch greyed out or something.
What sound card do you have?
Also. In terminal enter:
alsamixer
Hit [F6] to select or check correct sound card is shown.
Hit [F5] to show All sound channels.
Check if any mic channels are showing [MM] i.e. muted. Unmute by moving to the channel and hit "M" also increase the volume.
It may be good if you also posted a screenshot of your alsamixer. (Take care to show any channels that may spill off the right edge of the display indicated by arrows).
Sorry i did not specify. The green checkmarks don't work, I tried it on both of the mics. Also, I already tried alsamixer, all of them are unmuted, the mic still does not work, should of mentioned earlier but its a integrated mic.
pavucontrol image:
alsamixer image:
Internal mic is not showing on Alsamixer. Do you have a headset (with mic) plugged in that may be defeating the internal mic? EDIT: I do see headphone mic show as unplugged in pulse audio.
Do you know what sound card your PC has or give details of the PC spec so we can search for those details.
I do not have anything plugged in exept the charger.
my specs are:
Hardware Model:Acer Aspire A315-24P
Memory:16,0 GIB
Processor:AMD Ryzen 5 7520u with radeon graphics x 8
Graphics RAPHAEL MENDOCINO (raphael_mendocino, LLVM 15.0.7, DRM 3.57, 6....
Disk Capacity:512,1 GB
I have searched for sound card spec for your machine and even Acer do not specify in their product specification 
So all we can go on is "Realtek ALC256"
A websearch using search term "Realtek ALC256 no internal mic Ubuntu 22.04"
found this: sound - Microphone not recognised in Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS - Ask Ubuntu
No solution is marked there, but something may help, or you could try more searches with that searchterm.
As your machine is AMD based, I am also wondering if a later kernel may help solve it. Others here on the forum may have a view on that subject.
I looked on the forum and it kind of worked, there is a option for a mic now in the settings, but the mic only recorded the sounds that are happening in the system. I will just buy a new mic.
Thanks for helping me!
1 Like
Please explain what you mean by that.
Is it recording music or video sound or just noise of fans etc?
Please open a terminal (Menu search bar enter terminal then open it) and enter:
sudow lshw -C multimedia
and post back results.
Hoping it will give hex code for device to search on Linux hardware site.
I tested the mic some more and, it only records some kind of noise that sounds like the white noise if you know what it is. It is really strange, as I mentioned before I will just buy a new mic.
Out of interest, If you have a Headset/Mic combo, does that work when plugged in?
Yes, it works.
@nikolas Can you reply to Swarf's post. It may lead somewhere regarding internal mic.
this is the result of the command you sent me
*-multimedia:0
description: Audio device
product: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 0.1
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.1
logical name: card0
logical name: /dev/snd/controlC0
logical name: /dev/snd/hwC0D0
logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC0D3p
logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC0D7p
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0
resources: irq:89 memory:c04c8000-c04cbfff
*-multimedia:1
description: Multimedia controller
product: Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 0.5
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.5
version: 6f
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=snd_pci_acp6x latency=0
resources: irq:86 memory:c0480000-c04bffff
*-multimedia:2
description: Audio device
product: Family 17h (Models 10h-1fh) HD Audio Controller
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
physical id: 0.6
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.6
logical name: card1
logical name: /dev/snd/controlC1
logical name: /dev/snd/hwC1D0
logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC1D0c
logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC1D0p
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0
resources: irq:90 memory:c04c0000-c04c7fff
*-usb
description: Video
product: ACER HD User Facing
vendor: Quanta
physical id: 1
bus info: usb@5:1
version: 0.04
serial: 01.00.00
capabilities: usb-2.01
configuration: driver=uvcvideo maxpower=500mA speed=480Mbit/s
Sadly that did not work. Try:
inxi -Fxz
The info from post #15 did reveal Audio devices.
After a websearch using: "Family 17h (Models 10h-1fh) HD Audio Controller no internal mic Ubuntu 22.04"
I eventually stumbled on this, which could be of interest: drivers - Ubuntu 20.04 Lenovo Ideapad Microphone not working - Ask Ubuntu