Webcam and mic suddenly not working on Pop OS

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Hi!

I have a fingers 108- hi res webcam which war working fine till the last month.

I opened my Pop os 22.04 after a month and its not detecting the webcam and the mic

Tried various solutions from web but non worked.

This is what it looks in settings
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Please help as soon as possible!

Thanks in advance!

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From the Terminal, run

alsamixer

In here, press F6 to select sound card and make sure that you see and select a sound card:

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HI!

First of all, thanks for the reply.

I saw 3 options:
default, intel and nvidia

Tried all three but none of them captured the mic. :frowning:

Any other solutions?

Thanks,
Hrishikesh.

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I just tried the solution u gave and i noticed something:

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Here u can see the card and chip is shown as pulseaudio while it should be pipewire right?
Maybe it happened becuz I tried various solutions from internet yesterday, or maybe because of any other reason, I dont know!!

Any help would be appreciated and respected!

Thanks,
Hrishikesh.

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That could be the reason because if I remember correctly, Pop OS switched to Pipewire with version 22.04.

Try this and see if it works.

Reinstall Pipewire:

sudo apt reinstall pipewire pipewire-pulse

And then enable it:

systemctl --user --now enable pipewire pipewire-pulse

Now see if it works or not. You should not need it but still, reboot if it is not working immediately.

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Tried it , no luck.

Thanks for quick response btw.

Any other solutions?

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Too bad.

Does it at least show Pipewire in Alsamixer now?

Perhaps try changing the sound card?

System76 has a dedicated page… but please make Timeshift backup or something like that so that you can restore things later (if you mess it up further).

I have to go out now (Sunday is for family). I will check the discussion again in the evening. Good luck.

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Okay so I identified that the prob is with the webcam(hardware).

Sorry for bothering and disturbing!:pray:

Thanks for the quick responses though!