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I got a new windows based laptop and decided to install Mint (Mint 21.2 Cinnamon) on it. This laptop comes with a microphone array around its camera.

I got most of the hardware to work including built-in speakers, so some parts of the audio drivers are working.

The only thing is that the microphone array does not work... Mint cannot detect the microphone array or any other microphone connected to the side jack.

The array works fine when booting with Windows.

Where else should I look to resolve this?

mint sound pic

some tech details:

Mint 21.2 (Based of Ubuntu Jammy)

inxi -A Audio: Device-1: Intel driver: snd_hda_intel Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-84-generic running: yes Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes 
dmesg | grep audio [ 66.531528] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: couldn't bind with audio component [ 66.587873] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: autoconfig for ALC274: line_outs=1 (0x17/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0) type:speaker [ 66.587890] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0) [ 66.587897] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: hp_outs=1 (0x21/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0) [ 66.587902] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: mono: mono_out=0x0 [ 66.587905] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: inputs: [ 66.587908] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: Mic=0x19 [ 624.313215] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: hda-codec: reconfiguring [ 624.313218] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D0: The codec is being used, can't reconfigure. 
pactl list sources Source #1 State: SUSPENDED Name: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo.monitor Description: Monitor of Built-in Audio Analogue Stereo Driver: module-alsa-card.c Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 48000Hz Channel Map: front-left,front-right Owner Module: 25 Mute: no Volume: front-left: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB, front-right: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB balance 0.00 Base Volume: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB Monitor of Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo Latency: 0 usec, configured 0 usec Flags: DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY Properties: device.description = "Monitor of Built-in Audio Analogue Stereo" device.class = "monitor" alsa.card = "0" alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel PCH" alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel PCH at 0x603d1a0000 irq 198" alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel" device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1f.3" sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/sound/card0" device.bus = "pci" device.vendor.id = "8086" device.vendor.name = "Intel Corporation" device.product.id = "51ca" device.form_factor = "internal" device.string = "0" module-udev-detect.discovered = "1" device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci" Formats: pcm
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I learnt from the mint forum that because the default Linux kernel (which comes with mint 21.2) is version 5.15, it was very likely not to contain drivers compatible with this new laptop hardware.

So as per their suggestion I went into the journey of upgrading it.

I followed the blog from linuxcapable and installed the latest kernel version (6.5.5 as of writing).

I executed the following commands:

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade reboot sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cappelikan/ppa -y sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mainline -y

Then I opened the program

Taskbar > Mainline Kernels

I selected version 6.5.5 and clicked on Install Mainline]

once the new kernel was installed, I rebooted once more

After rebooting, the microphone Array started working without issues!

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