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Audio input used to work fine.

I tried restarting pulseaudio with killall pulseaudio and pulseaudio -k, followed by pulseaudio --start

pavucontrol screenshots:

input greyed out

config looks fine

Also I looked up how to list audio input devices and tried that, in case it's helpful:

$ aplay --list-devices
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 10: HDMI 4 [HDMI 4]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC3232 Analog [ALC3232 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

$ arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC3232 Analog [ALC3232 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

That's my built-in mic right? I don't know where to go from here.

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  • Can yo utry to look trough ALL the input/outputs in pavucontrol? (in the Configuration tab) (In my case when I had the same problem, I had very many many to choose from (a drop down) So I just tried 1 by another and eventually, 1 of them worked: But This may or may not be the case here, although posted this in case this would be the problem. Hope it solves itself! – William Martens Oct 04 '20 at 15:29
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    @WilliamMartens I didn't have a lot of options, and none of them changed anything :( – mavix Oct 05 '20 at 22:47
  • Oh im sorry to ehar that; Edited my comment below – William Martens Oct 06 '20 at 10:02
  • I updated my answer, I had the exact same problem today, I don't know if it will work for you; but If you try it, and it dosen't work: Tell me what the output is and I will try to help :) – William Martens Oct 06 '20 at 12:43

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I see in your Built-In Analog Stereo, you have it on mute (Is it not?) Click on it (the, muted speaker button) to Un-Mute it, does that help?

EDIT: I had this problem exactly today, a quick copy & paste from my own post:

No sound 18.04 and tried all the answers I can find

I (In my case) solved it by

removing pavucontrol
rebooting
Install pavucontrol again,
and it started working!

To do this in the Terminal:

sudo apt remove pavucontrol
sudo apt autoremove
sudo reboot
sudo apt-get install pavucontrol

Hope this solves itself!

Good luck!

William Martens
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    Where are you seeing a muted speaker button? – mavix Oct 05 '20 at 22:45
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    @mavix At the Input devices tab , monitor of built-in audio digital stereo (hdmi) , not 2nd: Monitor of Built-in audio analog stereo, (But here, 3rd: Built-in Audio Analog Stereo (Internal Microphone) at this line, look to the right, 3 buttons: a greyd out (muted) speaker, and a lock, and a green, Ok-symbol) – William Martens Oct 06 '20 at 09:57
  • https://i.stack.imgur.com/xuX3l.png At this – William Martens Oct 06 '20 at 09:57
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    well.. this is embarrassing... – mavix Oct 13 '20 at 20:07
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    @mavix Hey! Did it work? So I don't misunderstand; It's nothing embarrassing at all! the Icon is so small, so easy to miss, hehe ^^ Hope it worked; Glad if. //Regards! Have a great day sir! – William Martens Oct 13 '20 at 20:45
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    Yes, it was indeed the problem. I missed the icon hahaha thanks so much @William Martens – mavix Nov 02 '20 at 22:29
  • @mavix Writing this comment just to say thank you to you too; Good luck with everything you do! //Wishes – William Martens Nov 04 '20 at 10:29
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Go to Settings -> Sound -> Input. Check the status of your microphone. It may have the volume at zero.

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