2017-02-14 19:21 GMT+05:00 Fatima Castiglione Maldonado å?? <castiglionemaldonado at gmail.com>: >> What does "broken" mean more specifically? Things appear to work, but >> the microphone produces just silence? >> > The mic produces a very distorted sound, like "cracking" sound As a temporary workaround, you can run "pacmd load-module module-echo-cancel channels=2 rate=48000 use_master_format=true", and then, using pavucontrol, move Chrome's input and output to echo-cancelled devices. That just exploits the fact that virtual sinks behave differently than normal ones in aspects related to buffering. -- Alexander E. Patrakov