Microphone recognised in pavucontrol but not useable I'm running Pop OS on a Lenovo T495s. My onboard microphone was working fine but after updating to 20.04 I am getting no sound from it. When I run pavucontrol I see two input devices: * Digital Microphone - Family 17h (Models 10h-1fh) Audio Controller Digital Microphone. Shows no input. * Headphones Stereo Microphone (unplugged) - Family 17h (Models 10h-1fh) HD Audio Controller Headphones Stereo Microphone. This _does_ show input. I'm not quite sure what the first devices is and it seems like I want to use the bottom one but only "Digital Microphone" is available to select in the OS Sound settings, or when using a microphone in a browser. Why is the second microphone not available to use?

I had the same problem with Ubuntu 20.04. What I did was to update the linux kernel. If you type

uname -a

to find out which version you have, then see if you are on 5.6 or 5.8

I was on 5.6-1020 and then updated to 5.8 by using the following command:

sudo apt install linux-image-5.8.0-23-generic linux-headers-5.8.0-23-generic linux-buildinfo-5.8.0-23-generic linux-modules-5.8.0-23-generic linux-modules-extra-5.8.0-23-generic

I noticed that in PulseAudio Volume Control, I can now actually disable the non working microphone under the configuration tab. Whereas before I couldn't.