edit: I love y’all for helping me so much but I somehow broke tf out of my mint install on the flash drive. I have no idea how. it literally says “something went seriously wrong” in the BIOS and then shuts the PC off when I try to launch the mint OS. gonna do a clean install… again…
oh boy
ok so I’m running a mint cinnamon edge install on my laptop, booted off a flash drive for now. currently, my biggest issue is the mic. Presently, whenever I try to use my mic, it instead takes whatever audio output my system is currently producing (be that music from YouTube or system sounds) and thinks that that is the input. it does not however, pick up anything with my voice. this happens both with my built in laptop speaker and when I connect my Bluetooth headphones and try to use the mic on those.
I’ve fiddled with pavucontrol settings for a while and wasn’t able to fix it. it seems like it’s not detecting my built in mic, saying it’s unplugged or something, but that doesn’t explain why I have the same issue with my headphones.
I’m thinking it has something to do with the fact that it’s a live session from a flash drive instead of a full install on my PC, but I’m hesitant to do a full install without finding fixes for issues I might run into first.
if you can figure something out, that’d be incredible and I would thank you sincerely and owe you one; if not that’s fine, I really don’t know what I’m gonna do other than take the plunge and full install, hoping that’ll fix it
Currently have windows booted to partition my drive and make space for a full Linux install, so I can’t do that command right away. here’s an inxi -Fxz command though from before, does this help any?
This laptop seems to use ALC236, which seems to have a lot of problem on linux. If you search on the web, people seems to have different issues with different fixes on various laptop with ALC236. I’m not quite sure what’s the issue in your case, but searching for "ALC236" linux mic might yield some relevant results, such as this one. Most solutions are probably not applicable unless you install linux permanently on your disk first though.
I only just realized my previous comment formatted like total ass, I’m so sorry. I’ll check it out, but it seems like I fucked up the Linux install somehow, to the point where it says “something went seriously wrong” in the BIOS before shutting my PC off. I have no idea what I did wrong since I didn’t even touch the flash drive it was on.
I’m no linux expert, but I think that issues like that are pretty common with a flash boot - based on BIOS boot sequences or similar issues, the drive likely doesn’t have as many permissions or permissions in the right order as a ssd would. As an intermediary step, you could try partitioning your drive first then doing a full install on a small partition.
Hit me! I’ll probably fail, but I wanna try and help anyway.
edit: I love y’all for helping me so much but I somehow broke tf out of my mint install on the flash drive. I have no idea how. it literally says “something went seriously wrong” in the BIOS and then shuts the PC off when I try to launch the mint OS. gonna do a clean install… again…
oh boy
ok so I’m running a mint cinnamon edge install on my laptop, booted off a flash drive for now. currently, my biggest issue is the mic. Presently, whenever I try to use my mic, it instead takes whatever audio output my system is currently producing (be that music from YouTube or system sounds) and thinks that that is the input. it does not however, pick up anything with my voice. this happens both with my built in laptop speaker and when I connect my Bluetooth headphones and try to use the mic on those.
I’ve fiddled with pavucontrol settings for a while and wasn’t able to fix it. it seems like it’s not detecting my built in mic, saying it’s unplugged or something, but that doesn’t explain why I have the same issue with my headphones.
I’m thinking it has something to do with the fact that it’s a live session from a flash drive instead of a full install on my PC, but I’m hesitant to do a full install without finding fixes for issues I might run into first.
if you can figure something out, that’d be incredible and I would thank you sincerely and owe you one; if not that’s fine, I really don’t know what I’m gonna do other than take the plunge and full install, hoping that’ll fix it
Audio issues on laptops are usually model-specific. Might help if you post your laptop model and the output of diagnostic commands such as
arecord -l.Currently have windows booted to partition my drive and make space for a full Linux install, so I can’t do that command right away. here’s an inxi -Fxz command though from before, does this help any?
inxi -Fxz System: Kernel: 6.5.0-14-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A Desktop: Cinnamon 6.0.4 Distro: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy Machine: Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 15-fc0xxx v: N/A serial: <superuser required> Mobo: HP model: 8B2F v: 52.42 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: AMI v: F.10 date: 12/21/2023 Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 40.8 Wh (100.0%) condition: 40.8/40.8 Wh (100.0%) volts: 13.0 min: 11.2 model: HP Primary status: Full CPU: Info: quad core model: AMD Ryzen 5 7520U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen note: check rev: 0 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 2 MiB L3: 4 MiB Speed (MHz): avg: 1318 high: 2302 min/max: 400/4384 cores: 1: 1709 2: 400 3: 1428 4: 2302 5: 1510 6: 400 7: 1397 8: 1405 bogomips: 44716 Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm Graphics: Device-1: AMD vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.0 Device-2: Chicony HP True Vision HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 5-1:2 Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa gpu: amdgpu resolution: 1366x768~60Hz OpenGL: renderer: GFX1036 (gfx1036 LLVM 15.0.7 DRM 3.54 6.5.0-14-generic) v: 4.6 Mesa 23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1 direct render: Yes Audio: Device-1: AMD vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.1 Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_pci_acp6x v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.5 Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.6 Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k6.5.0-14-generic running: yes Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes Network: Device-1: Realtek vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtw89_8852be v: kernel port: f000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter> Bluetooth: Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-2:2 Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 3.0 lmp-v: 5.2 Drives: Local Storage: total: 491.96 GiB used: 6.2 MiB (0.0%) ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVL4512HBLU-00BH1 size: 476.94 GiB temp: 28.9 C ID-2: /dev/sda type: USB model: General USB Flash Disk size: 15.02 GiB Partition: ID-1: / size: 3.5 GiB used: 305.5 MiB (8.5%) fs: overlay source: ERR-102 ID-2: /var/log size: 11.82 GiB used: 6.2 MiB (0.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 Swap: Alert: No swap data was found. Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0 C mobo: 20.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 48.0 C Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 fan-2: 0 Info: Processes: 300 Uptime: 34m Memory: 7 GiB used: 2.9 GiB (41.5%) Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.4.0 Packages: 2121 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 inxi: 3.3.13This laptop seems to use ALC236, which seems to have a lot of problem on linux. If you search on the web, people seems to have different issues with different fixes on various laptop with ALC236. I’m not quite sure what’s the issue in your case, but searching for
"ALC236" linux micmight yield some relevant results, such as this one. Most solutions are probably not applicable unless you install linux permanently on your disk first though.I only just realized my previous comment formatted like total ass, I’m so sorry. I’ll check it out, but it seems like I fucked up the Linux install somehow, to the point where it says “something went seriously wrong” in the BIOS before shutting my PC off. I have no idea what I did wrong since I didn’t even touch the flash drive it was on.
No problem since there is a “view source” button on lemmy which show the comment in its original formatting.
I’m no linux expert, but I think that issues like that are pretty common with a flash boot - based on BIOS boot sequences or similar issues, the drive likely doesn’t have as many permissions or permissions in the right order as a ssd would. As an intermediary step, you could try partitioning your drive first then doing a full install on a small partition.
That sounds very reasonable actually. I’ll give that a shot. Thanks!