On 2015-02-10 20:17, Christian Kreibich wrote: > On 02/10/2015 02:12 AM, David Henningsson wrote: >> Are you sure that the problem is with the mic and not with the laptop? > > Yes, because the problem did not occur with older earbuds (that broke) > and the internal microphone is working fine too. Laptop is a Thinkpad X1 > Carbon 2nd gen, fwiw. > >> PulseAudio does not currently have any noise reduction to filter out >> static. > > In that case I suppose I'll investigate ways to keep using the internal > microphone even when headphones with a mike are plugged in. I could not > get that to work, but perhaps I didn't try hard enough. You can use hdajackretask to either remove the external mic input entirely or just disable its jack detection. (Or modify files under /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/ to do the same thing.) -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. https://launchpad.net/~diwic
