topic title: microphone not works after change the motherboard
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CGarces
Joined: 21 Apr 2013
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Hi!

After updated the motherboard (dead after 12 years of service) of my parent's computer I have follow
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to migrate from i386 o x64 system.

I have solved all the problems and only one issue is missing, the microphone not works

I have one error on dmesg but I'm not sure what means... I have sound the only problem is the mic, the entire log are
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[    7.000024] ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:1766 0000:01:05.2: Codec #0 probe error; disabling it...
[   12.024032] ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:1805 0000:01:05.2: no codecs initialized

The motherboard have a Realtek ALC888 detected my the system as ALC887 (I'm not sure why)

I see in the logs that I have 3 capture devices

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**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC887 Analog [ALC887 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC887 Digital [ALC887 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 2: ALC887 Alt Analog [ALC887 Alt Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
I have test one by one with

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$ arecord  hw:1,[n] -d 10  /tmp/test-mic.wav
An check with alsamixer that mic not is mute

Any idea?
Why the device is detected as ALC887 and not ALC888?
Last edited by CGarces on 30 Jan 2014, 13:57, edited 1 time in total.
Posts: 630
Eino
Joined: 12 Oct 2012
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CGarces wrote: The motherboard have a Realtek ALC888 detected my the system as ALC887 (I'm not sure why)
Why the device is detected as ALC887 and not ALC888?
Sometimes with realtec the wrong driver gets installed during an automatic install.
Here is a tutorial that may help.

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