[pulseaudio-discuss] Noise when trying to record audio

[Lars Hupel]

Hello,

I'm running Arch Linux and PulseAudio 6.0 on a Dell Latitude laptop. Sound
output works just fine, both headphones and internal speakers. Sound
recording however doesn't work. Initially, all I got was silence when
attempting to record (tried it with Audacity, arecord, parecord and
Skype). Then, I deleted my configuration (~/.config/pulse) and
restarted; now I get some weird form of noise when recording*. This
happens both for the internal and an external mic. I checked pavucontrol
and the device is unmuted.

* Here's a short sample of what Audacity records:
<http://nagini.eu/~lars/recording.ogg>

$ arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: 92HD93BXX Analog [92HD93BXX Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

$ lspci | grep -i audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset
Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)

Cheers
Lars