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   for the audio. Some microphones are line level and you plug them into   
   LineIn. Some are low level and those plug into MicIn. And you have to   
   check the recording selector, to make sure you have the correct channel   
   being input to the HDAudio input side.   
      
   You can see the poster here, he got a "Dummy Output" for Christmas,   
   which is like a lump of coal in your stocking. At least there is a picture   
   of the dlalog you want there.   
      
      https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=379262   
      
   This is more normal on a modern computer, the "pollution" of digital   
   items that aren't likely to be connected to anything that actually   
   uses the output. And the person in this thread, is having trouble   
   with the OS "remembering" the setting for the next time. Like my Fedora   
   install, this one is using the red-LED TOSLink output for SPDIF audio,   
   instead of the Analog Output (suited to analog computer speakers, which   
   is all I've got for speakers).   
      
   https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=427125   
      
   The order of discovery of the items at boot time, can affect   
   whether the selector can detect them in time to conclude   
   "the default is available". The person in that thread, is using   
   a USB audio, and that will be detected at a different time point   
   than some of the other audios.   
      
      Paul   
      
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