Regarding Audio Drivers

[Divanshu Singh]

Thank you, I will do that.

On Sun, May 13, 2018, 12:28 AM Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:

> On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 11:14:50PM +0530, Divanshu Singh wrote:
> > Respected Reader
> >
> > I am a long time Linux user. I am a full-time web developer but I have
> some
> > knowledge of C, C++ and bit of x86 assembly.
> >
> > I have 4 Linux system at my home - a MacBook Air, 2 HP and 1 Dell and
> > recently I found that none of them is able to detect or work with an
> > external microphone. I have tried every possible configuration in ALSA
> that
> > made sense but nothing worked. I also tried re-installing drivers for my
> > sound cards. Searching the Internet, I realized that I am not alone there
> > are thousands of Linux users who face the same problem. I found this long
> > answer explaining why this problem exists with Linux system.
> >
> >
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/381071/headphones-with-combo-jack-force-internal-mic-for-input-and-headphones-for-outp
> >
>
> All this means is that for your specific laptop version, you need a
> quirk to be able to properly control the microphone.  It's not a big
> deal, just determining how to do that is a bit tricky.
>
> I suggest emailing the Linux kernel sound developers at
> alsa-dev at alsa-project.org and provide the exact kernel version you are
> using (first try the latest release to be sure it's not already fixed),
> and any hardware information you can provide as well.
>
> The developers there will probably ask you for more specific things, and
> you all can work from there.
>
> Best of luck!
>
> greg k-h
>
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