| Well, here's what I did (not in that specific order): - use alsamixer to find out which mic is which and if they are muted (it's a CLI app) - install blueman to have it easier to switch the headset to hsp/hfp (a2dp sink is one way and it means it's not designed to send sound from the headphones, I made that mistake) - since I have a Dell I had to fight that pesky mute led status in alsa (haven't figured out yet what it means, I ended up disabling the internal mic in the bios to be sure it was the headphone doing the recording) ; there are bug reports about the keyboard key not doing what it's supposed to do ; the internal mic only works when I set it to On in the alsamixer menu ; you can check if the laptop led is on or off (like the webcam) ; - use pavucontrol to try to figure out what device is doing what (it's like the sound control center but it displays more information) - make sure to switch off every device that is not your headset/headphone (hdmi, internal, anything) ; it's funny how you can configure an audio stream (say your laptop's internal speakers) to be the recording stream: it'll just record itself I also installed audacity and recorded myself muttering "blah blah" way too many times in order to try to identify the microphones detected by the system. I still don't understand why I have so many redundant output devices with the same name and an incremental version (:1, :2, :3) but hey.. it works (I just want to be able to video call two colleagues tomorrow, I really don't know how to control for quality if you have studio quality sound recording needs :/). |