ROG MAXIMUS Z790 HERO: no sound from jack microphone in Ubuntu 23.04
Hi
as suggested on Ubuntu Launchpad, I file the bug also here on your gitlab:
If you have a jack microphone connected to your ROG MAXIMUS Z790 HERO motherboard and you go into Settings > Sound > Input, you'll see two entries:
- Digital Input S/PDIF USB Audio
- Microphone - USB Audio
if you detach your microphone jack the second one disappears. So, the second one is responsible for your jack mic.
Unfortunately, if you choose this "Microphone - USB Audio" no sound will be shown by the indicator gauge, even if you pull the mic volume to the maximum.
The default sound system in Ubuntu 23.04 is PipeWire. I see ALSA-related packages installed by default, but no pulseaudio and pulseaudio-utils packages.
It would be nice to get microphone working without creating a mess of different sound systems. I'd stay with ALSA+PipeWire without PulseAudio and without JACK.
I see that arecord
can use ALSA to record sound from microphone, but what about Skype and your other apps that rely on usage of "Microphone - USB Audio" exposed via PipeWire? They don't work.
Any idea how to fix the mic issue without creating a mess?
thanks.
Other details:
% lsb_release -rd No LSB modules are available. Description: Ubuntu 23.04 Release: 23.04
% apt list --installed |grep -i pipewire gstreamer1.0-pipewire/lunar,now 0.3.65-3 amd64 [installed,automatic] libpipewire-0.3-0/lunar,now 0.3.65-3 amd64 [installed,automatic] libpipewire-0.3-common/lunar,lunar,now 0.3.65-3 all [installed,automatic] libpipewire-0.3-modules/lunar,now 0.3.65-3 amd64 [installed,automatic] pipewire-alsa/lunar,now 0.3.65-3 amd64 [installed,automatic] pipewire-audio/lunar,lunar,now 0.3.65-3 all [installed,automatic] pipewire-bin/lunar,now 0.3.65-3 amd64 [installed,automatic] pipewire-pulse/lunar,now 0.3.65-3 amd64 [installed,automatic] pipewire/lunar,now 0.3.65-3 amd64 [installed,automatic]
% apt list --installed |grep -i alsa alsa-base/lunar,lunar,now 1.0.25+dfsg-0ubuntu7 all [installed,automatic] alsa-topology-conf/lunar,lunar,now 1.2.5.1-2 all [installed,automatic] alsa-ucm-conf/lunar-updates,lunar-updates,now 1.2.6.3-1ubuntu9.1 all [installed,automatic] alsa-utils/lunar,now 1.2.8-1ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic] gstreamer1.0-alsa/lunar-updates,lunar-security,now 1.22.1-1ubuntu1.1 amd64 [installed,automatic] pipewire-alsa/lunar,now 0.3.65-3 amd64 [installed,automatic]
% apt list --installed |grep -i pulse libcanberra-pulse/lunar,now 0.30-10ubuntu4 amd64 [installed,automatic] libpulse-mainloop-glib0/lunar,now 1:16.1+dfsg1-2ubuntu3 amd64 [installed,automatic] libpulse0/lunar,now 1:16.1+dfsg1-2ubuntu3 amd64 [installed,automatic] libpulse0/lunar,now 1:16.1+dfsg1-2ubuntu3 i386 [installed,automatic] pipewire-pulse/lunar,now 0.3.65-3 amd64 [installed,automatic]