# Microphone no longer working **URL:** \ **Category:** Linux\ **Created:** [October 13, 2022, 10:02pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/microphone-no-longer-working/23733 "2022-10-13T22:02:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Adam\_Manzer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/adam_manzer/32/2964_2.png) [@Adam\_Manzer](https://community.frame.work/u/Adam_Manzer)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 10:02pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/microphone-no-longer-working/23733/1 "2022-10-13T22:02:41Z")
I’ve got an 11th Gen motherboard, and I’m running Fedora Kinoite (aka Silverblue, but with KDE) (I’ve tried this on a pinned version of 35 I still have, and the latest 36). My mic seems to be no longer working. I know it worked at some point after I got the laptop. _The reason I’m making this a Community post to start_ instead of a Support question is to ask the community a question: If you have a known working microphone on any Linux, and you run `dmesg -w`, and flick the hardware switch on and off, do you get messages about a USB device being disconnected? This is how it works with my web cam (which I can see works), but I don’t get any `dmesg` output when I toggle the mic. I’m thinking that’s indicating a hardware issue. But I just want a second opinion on what I should be seeing before I start down the hardware route. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nils](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Nils](https://community.frame.work/u/Nils)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 10:22pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/microphone-no-longer-working/23733/2 "2022-10-13T22:22:31Z")
no messages on `dmesg -w` for me if the microphone is turned off/on, and the microphone works well. I do get messages when the camera gets turned off/on ---
**Author:** ![Adam\_Manzer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/adam_manzer/32/2964_2.png) [@Adam\_Manzer](https://community.frame.work/u/Adam_Manzer)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 11:06pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/microphone-no-longer-working/23733/3 "2022-10-13T23:06:20Z")
Interesting! And that’s with the built-in mic next to the webcam, not one plugged into the jack on the side, right? ---
**Author:** ![Adam\_Manzer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/adam_manzer/32/2964_2.png) [@Adam\_Manzer](https://community.frame.work/u/Adam_Manzer)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2022, 12:12am UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/microphone-no-longer-working/23733/4 "2022-12-01T00:12:15Z")
I had some more time today to poke at this issue while I was rebasing to Fedora Kinoite 37, and I figured it out. I don’t know if it was a PEBKAC error, or a default getting reset at some point in the past, but it was a KDE setting that needed to be changed. I had to update the Profile on the Speakers to `Analog Stereo Duplex`; it had been set to Analog Stereo Output at some point. ![Audio Profile](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/framework3/original/2X/d/d74a8217ac8caf63c496916f0e7eac9c3f816a3c.png) I hope this can help someone else in the future. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Matt\_Hartley](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/matt_hartley/32/13623_2.png) [@Matt\_Hartley](https://community.frame.work/u/Matt_Hartley)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2022, 7:31pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/microphone-no-longer-working/23733/5 "2022-12-05T19:31:40Z")
> [@Adam\_Manzer](#): > > I don’t know if it was a PEBKAC error, or a default getting reset at some point in the past, but it was a KDE setting that needed to be changed. Coming back from the weekend, this is a great share!