Note: This probably isn’t limited just to the Dell Studio 1558.
For those who tried the HOWTO at https://help.ubuntu.com/ and ended up with headphones and microphones that don’t work, here’s how you do it:
sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf- Into that file, insert
options snd-hda-intel model=dell-m6-dmic. (Some forum posts will tell you to usedell-eq, but that left me with low volume on the laptop’s speakers and nothing happening on the microphone front. Usingdell-m6fixed my low volume problem, but the microphone was still dead. I read aboutdell-m6-dmicsomewhere and guess what, bitches, it works.) - Restart ALSA and pulseaudio if you know how (I used to know this, and I blame alcohol for my sieve-like memory) or just reboot.
- ????
- PROFIT
TL;DR: Put options snd-hda-intel model=dell-m6-dmic in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf to fix your shit.
You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. Thank you very much.
I was also facing the low sound level problem when I used dell-eq. Now that I changed it to dell-m6-dmic, it works perfect.
Thanks.