Recent content by hife

I see. I guess a USB mic has to be bigger to include components to do the job of the sound card. Thanks. I have now managed to move output to the speakers while a headset is attached to the combi jack. (On Ubuntu this works through the pavucontrol GUI and can be automate with the pacmd command...

Thank you for your reply. I am leaning towards the cable being the problem, just because it has more area of potential damages; maybe I bent it when removing the frame. I was thinking of trying to use an ohmmeter to check the conductivity of the wire. I don't have mine on hand now, so I am not...

This sounds like your system might think you are attaching a headset. Try using Realtek Audio Manager to set the device as speakers only.

I tinkered with the screen of my Thinkpad 540E to fix a broken column of pixels. A few weeks later, I noticed that the internal microphone is no longer picking up any sound. I have tried on both the preinstalled Windows 8 and my Ubuntu 16.04 systems. It was working on both before. The internal...