The microphone is not muted in alsamixer or pulseaudio volume control. However in the pulseaudio control the port is listed as "Microphone (unplugged)" with no other options available.
I suspect the problem might be with the hotkeys on the Elitebook keyboard, specifically the mute one. It has a little light that is permanently on no matter whether it is pressed or not. At first this key did nothing at all. Looking around for similar problems, I found and followed instructions here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1138067 ... tebook-840
Now pressing the button makes a "microphone muted/unmuted" thing pop up, but it has no effect, and the light doesn't go off. Furthermore two of the other hotkeys do the same thing (the brightness ones, f3 and f4), and the networking one works in reverse: the networking is enabled when the light is off.
Further perhaps relevant information is that on my keyboard (which is Swedish) at least, the hotkey functions are the primary functions of the top row of keys, and you are meant to press fṇ̣̣ plus relevant key to get the f1/2 etc function.
So: my first and immediate problem is the muted mic, which I suspect is a hardware switch that is not being correctly tripped by the hotkey. This is a deal-breaker in terms of switching to MX, which is a switch I would like to make.
A second and perhaps related problem is that most of the hotkeys do not seem to be working properly. An acceptable solution for me would be to just disable them qua hotkeys and have them work as ordinary F keys -- especially if this solves the mic problem.
Any help very much appreciated.
Here is the system info:
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System: Host: <filter> Kernel: 5.8.0-3-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.8.0-3-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro
quiet splash
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.14.5 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM
Distro: MX-19.3_KDE_x64 patito feo November 11 2020 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Machine: Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP EliteBook 840 G6 v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10
serial: <filter>
Mobo: HP model: 8549 v: KBC Version 52.5C.00 serial: <filter> UEFI: HP v: R70 Ver. 01.04.06
date: 03/23/2020
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 42.1 Wh condition: 49.1/49.1 Wh (100%) volts: 12.3/11.6
model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Discharging
CPU: Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-8365U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake family: 6
model-id: 8E (142) stepping: C (12) microcode: D6 L2 cache: 6144 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 30399
Speed: 795 MHz min/max: 400/4100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 795 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 797 6: 799
7: 800 8: 800
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced IBRS, IBPB: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: TSX disabled
Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: TSX disabled
Graphics: Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0
chip ID: 8086:3ea0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa compositor: kwin_x11
resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 620 (WHL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.1.8 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel Cannon Point-LP High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:9dc8
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.0-3-amd64
Network: Device-1: Intel Cannon Point-LP CNVi [Wireless-AC] driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 3000
bus ID: 00:14.3 chip ID: 8086:9df0
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Ethernet I219-LM vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: efa0
bus ID: 00:1f.6 chip ID: 8086:15bd
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 11.02 GiB (2.3%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 model: KXG60ZNV512G KIOXIA size: 476.94 GiB block size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: AGHA4101 scheme: GPT
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 474.14 GiB size: 465.70 GiB (98.22%) used: 10.93 GiB (2.3%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/dm-0
ID-2: /boot raw size: 512.0 MiB size: 487.9 MiB (95.30%) used: 92.9 MiB (19.0%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-3: swap-1 size: 1.98 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap swappiness: 15 (default 60)
cache pressure: 100 (default) dev: /dev/dm-1
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 42.0 C mobo: 40.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos: Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
1: deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/ buster main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
2: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
1: deb http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mxlinux.org/packages/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
2: deb http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mxlinux.org/packages/mx/repo/ buster ahs
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list
1: deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/ buster main
Info: Processes: 249 Uptime: 45m Memory: 7.59 GiB used: 1.65 GiB (21.7%) Init: SysVinit v: 2.93
runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: quick-system-in
running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36
