From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: auspicious@inventati.org Subject: ASUS STRIX sound card quiet microphone (like, really quiet ...) Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2016 04:30:00 +0000 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from contumacia.investici.org (contumacia.investici.org [178.255.144.35]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6EAE26061B for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2016 06:30:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from opposizione.investici.org (opposizione-vpn.investici.org [172.16.1.6]) by contumacia.investici.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9046D2010C6 for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2016 04:30:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [46.4.106.116] (opposizione [46.4.106.116]) (Authenticated sender: auspicious@inventati.org) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 4E54A2205D7 for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2016 04:30:00 +0000 (UTC) List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Dear mailing list individuals, I currently am using an ASUS STRIX RAID DLX sound card. It contains the following processor: C-Media USB2.0 6632AX High-Definition Sound Processor (Max. 384KHz / 24bit) More information: https://www.asus.com/Sound-Cards/STRIX-RAID-DLX/specifications It gets detected as so on Debian testing with Linux kernel 4.6: card 1: DLX [STRIX RAID DLX], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: DLX [STRIX RAID DLX], device 1: USB Audio [USB Audio #1] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: DLX [STRIX RAID DLX], device 2: USB Audio [USB Audio #2] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 The output of the card has been wonderfully fine ever since I have had it, but the microphone bit has always been troublesome. On Linux Mint 17.3 it would not work (kernel 4.1 I believe). On Linux Mint 18 (kernel 4.4) it started working but it is incredibly quiet. On the loudest setting, I have to put the microphone against my mouth for anyone to hear. On the same system using on-board Intel audio, this issue does not occur. I am using Debian testing to have more recent software, but nothing made a difference. What can I do about this? I do not really know whether I need to contact the Linux kernel guys or ALSA. I am rather inexperienced with Linux driver things. Sincerely yours, Desperate Individual