Microphone not working on Acer Swift 3 SF314 under ubuntu 18.04. it was not visible after installing

mva
mva Member Posts: 1 New User
edited December 2023 in Swift and Spin Series
I have installed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on Acer Swift 3 SF31. The microphone was not visible after installation.
I've added a line
'options snd-hda-intel model=laptop-amic enable=yes'
to file /etc/modprobe/alsa-base.conf
(I've tried a number of other model=..., but only the version above gave something). The microphone has become visible in alsa mixer, but the signal is very noisy and I cannot cope with it.
Does anybody know how to make the internal microphone working in ubuntu? Or just what snd-hda-intel options should be used for this motel?
Thanks,

[Edited the thread to add issue detail]

Answers

  • JackE
    JackE ACE Posts: 44,904 Trailblazer
    sf314-?? or sf314-??G  Jack E/NJ

    Jack E/NJ

  • diezel
    diezel Member Posts: 7

    Tinkerer

    I have the same issue on Acer Swift 3 SF315-52G. By default, the microphone is not detected at all.

    When I put options to snd-hda-intel, like laptop-dmic and laptop-amic, I can see the microphone, but when I'm trying to record something, I hear only silence, or a white noise sometimes.

    Still looking for a fix.
  • JackE
    JackE ACE Posts: 44,904 Trailblazer
    @diezel Did you install 18.04 alongside Windows? Which distribution? Jack E/NJ

    Jack E/NJ

  • diezel
    diezel Member Posts: 7

    Tinkerer

    edited November 2018
    JackE said:
    @diezel Did you install 18.04 alongside Windows? Which distribution? Jack E/NJ
    Yes. The distribution is Elementary OS Juno (based on Ubuntu 18.04, linux kernel 4.15). Under Windows 10 the microphone does work. I posted here to check if someone managed to solve this problem for Linux.
  • JackE
    JackE ACE Posts: 44,904 Trailblazer
    Have you posted this issue on the elementary forum yet? https://elementaryos.stackexchange.com/  Jack E/NJ

    Jack E/NJ

  • dimas91
    dimas91 Member Posts: 1 New User
    I have same issue in ACER Swift 3 SF315-52-50M2 (Linux Mint Tara 19 based on Ubuntu 18.04). In Windows 10 need install Realtek drivers and microfone should be work fine. 
  • lurker20000
    lurker20000 Member Posts: 7 New User
    Same issue! I have looked here: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=279424&start=47 but there is no fix available from what I can gather in that topic.

    Additionally it seems that there is a rather long conversation about it here: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201251 but it also does not look like there is a fix for it.

    It was mentioned that this might be fixed in kernel 5.0+, but I am not sure if this kernel will work well. Does anyone have experience running the 5.0+ kernel on a Swift 3 SF315-52G with Ubuntu 18.04?





  • esc11
    esc11 Member Posts: 22 Troubleshooter
    Sadly it does not yet work with kernel 5 I have tried now kernel 5.0.8 still not working. 
  • Vasylllllllll
    Vasylllllllll Member Posts: 2 New User
    Linux version 5.3.0-26-generic
    Acer Swift SF315-52

    mic is silent whenever I do
  • Vasylllllllll
    Vasylllllllll Member Posts: 2 New User
    Read the topic, tried latest linux core, 5.4.14 and no mic there yet too
  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 34,276 Trailblazer
    @Vasylllllllll please start a new thread with your issue, do as you have here here including the model number and configuration details along with the Linux distribution and version. That way you'll be able to make the question as solved if we can figure it out and future people will be able to find it easier. Thanks.
    Click on "Like" if you find my answer useful or click on "Yes" if it answers your question.
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