Audio input from headset's microphone works on laptop but not in pc

General system Gaming, sound and video
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Hi everyone, I have been using endeavourOS in my laptop and a few days ago I made a full installation in pc. The headset I was using on my laptop never gave me any problems (both input and output work)
I can confirm that the headset mic used to work in pc (before the endeavourOS installation).

DE: xfce

inxi -aA output:

Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH-V cAVS vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl
    bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a3f0 class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.18.12-arch1-1 running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.55 running: yes

pactl info output:

Server String: /run/user/1000/pulse/native
Library Protocol Version: 35
Server Protocol Version: 35
Is Local: yes
Client Index: 134
Tile Size: 65472
User Name: centipede
Host Name: centipede-slimdragon
Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 0.3.55)
Server Version: 15.0.0
Default Sample Specification: float32le 2ch 48000Hz
Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Default Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo
Default Source: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo.monitor
Cookie: 7413:1675

If this helps I’m using this headset

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You could go ahead and try all the options given around installations of pipewire & pulse audio as described on the EndeavourOS Discovery Site.

Or you could try trouble-shooting via the Arch-Wiki.

There is no saying which way may work more quickly for you, as pipewire and headset-mic-errors keep filling the web-search engines these days.

Sorry for these bad news.

As for an aside-joke I could ask,
‘What happens if you plug it into your dish-washer?’

:crazy_face: