JesseBot

More Asahi Debian Bananas (Trixie) woes: I have no idea how to get the microphone to work.

It doesn't let me record anything using audacity or anki. My goal is to record my coworkers speaking dutch for my dutch flash cards in anki, but while it lets me record in anki, there's no actual sound. I also tried opening audacity and it says it can't use default audio device.

I tried installing the asahi-audio/trixie-backports via apt, but it didn't seem to make a difference 🤔  I would love for this to work, but I haven't done anything in the Linux audio world in years and have little clue where to start.

(I can't imagine it's important, but I'm on KDE if that's helpful info)

#debianbananas #debiantrixie #asahi #asahilinux

Mar 19 at 12:15pmWeb
Show threadmbrewer ↙↙↙Mar 19
Just some generic advice: Sound on Linux these days typically uses the pulseaudio API, via the pipewire server, which plays that sound through the audio card via the Alsa standard. So you typically want to start debugging at the Alsa layer. If it works, it's pipewire/pulse. If not it's Alsa.
Show threadmbrewer ↙↙↙Mar 19
The Alsa layer is configured via asound.conf (in /etc or ${HOME}). Sometimes the issue is just detection of the device and you need to hard-code it there. Then at the kernel level there's kernel modules, of course, and potentially firmware.
Show threadmbrewer ↙↙↙Mar 19
Not sure if any of that is helpful, but maybe it'll give you a starting point and some places to look to start splitting the problem into smaller pieces and isolate where it is.
Show threadCy8aerMar 19
@jessebot Try running asahi-diagnose. Do you have OS firmware 13.5?
Show threadJesseBotMar 19
@cy8aer yes, I do have firmware 13.5 according to that command 🙏
Show threadCy8aerMar 19
@jessebot Ok then the conditions are in place for it to work at its core. There were people - me included - who had older installations with versions < 13.5. Then: Is triforce-lv2 installed (the mic beam former is needed)