On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 1:54 AM Clemens Ladisch <cladisch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What exactly does not work? Sorry for being obtuse, I should have mentioned that I use pulseaudio and that the microphone does not appear as an available input, pulseaudio prints this in its log, when the card is inserted: Dec 11 05:56:52 fireball pulseaudio[40344]: W: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Unable to load mixer: Invalid argument > What happens when you run "arecord -D plughw:1 test.wav"? I get the following error: $ arecord -D plughw:1 test.wav arecord: main:828: audio open error: No such file or directory > > When I try to choose it with alsamixer > > alsamixer just shows mixer controls; choosing a device in alsamixer > has no effect on the rest of the system. > > > $ alsamixer -c 1 > > cannot load mixer controls: Invalid argument > > Any error messages in the system log when this happens? no, there are no new messages in the system log after typing that command, but on insertion of the card I get the following messages: [74093.854675] usb 1-3: new full-speed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd [74094.019917] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=0951, idProduct=16d8, bcdDevice=41.12 [74094.019922] usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [74094.019926] usb 1-3: Product: HyperX Amp [74094.019928] usb 1-3: Manufacturer: Kingston [74094.019931] usb 1-3: SerialNumber: 000000000001 [74094.044201] usb 1-3: 12:0: cannot get min/max values for control 2 (id 12) [74094.050034] usb 1-3: 6:0: cannot get min/max values for control 2 (id 6) [74094.054275] input: Kingston HyperX Amp Consumer Control as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-3/1-3:1.5/0003:0951:16D8.0010/input/input46 [74094.111105] hid-generic 0003:0951:16D8.0010: input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.11 Device [Kingston HyperX Amp] on usb-0000:00:14.0-3/input5 [74094.212007] usb 1-3: 12:0: cannot get min/max values for control 2 (id 12) [74094.217140] usb 1-3: 12:0: cannot get min/max values for control 2 (id 12) [74094.222300] usb 1-3: 12:0: cannot get min/max values for control 2 (id 12) [74094.228570] usb 1-3: 12:0: cannot get min/max values for control 2 (id 12) [74094.237844] usb 1-3: 12:0: cannot get min/max values for control 2 (id 12) [74094.243665] usb 1-3: 12:0: cannot get min/max values for control 2 (id 12) [74094.253251] usb 1-3: 12:0: cannot get min/max values for control 2 (id 12) [74094.258234] usb 1-3: 12:0: cannot get min/max values for control 2 (id 12) [74094.264630] usb 1-3: 12:0: cannot get min/max values for control 2 (id 12) Thanks, Jesse _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user