Hello,
I've been having lot's of troubles with the microphones with my ALC3236 sound card. By default (tested on ubuntu, fedora, and currently on debian sid) the internal microphone stops working when the mic boost is enabled (via alsamixer or when you set the sound to more than something like 30% on pulseaudio). After reading this discution http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2015-April/091325.html that was talking about a problem very similar to mine, I tried to change the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf into
options snd-hda-intel model=,dell-headset-multi
(I also tried lot's of other models)
But none of them is really working. Or only the internal microphone is working and I can't use headsets, or only the headsets are usable and not the internal microphone, or sometimes neigther work... Do you have a solution for that? I'm pretty sure that it's a problem of "bad pin assignment", but I'm not an expert at all ^^
You can find here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTbVfRXMJ2I someone that has a similar bug on Mac and that manage to solve it using strange tricks involving pin configuration,
Do you know how I could finally get a working microphone ?
Thank you!