> A possible explanation is that you have at some point manually selected > a card profile that doesn't contain the mic input. When pulseaudio > starts, it will select the last profile that was selected manually. > When you plug in the mic, pulseaudio automatically switches to a card > profile that contains the mic. Only manual profile switches are > remembered, so the automatic profile switch won't have effect any more > when pulseaudio starts on the next boot. > > You should be able to fix this by manually selecting the "Analog Stereo > Duplex" profile in the "Configuration" tab of pavucontrol (if it's > already selected, switch to some other profile and then to "Analog > Stereo Duplex"). > > --Â > Tanu Oh man, thanks for that, it worked. Simple solution, but I would never have thought of that because I wasn't even aware that's what those profiles actually meant. Thanks!
