Microphone problems in Debian 13
Saturated microphone in Debian 13 on EVO

If you have installed Debian 13 in your EVO AI9 device, and you use the internal microphone, you would have noticed that the microphone sounds saturated in the most used audio servers, PipeWire and Pulseaudio.
We made an investigation in how to fix this issue and we found out that upgrading to the 6.16 kernel, from Debian backports, solved the problem with the microphone. 

By only adding the backport repositorities to the source lists and installing the kernel, your microphone will work correctly on PipeWire or PulseAudio.

Installing backports:

sudo touch /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-backports.sources
sudo su
echo -e "Types: deb deb-src\nURIs: http://deb.debian.org/debian\nSuites: trixie-backports\nComponents: main\nEnabled: yes\nSigned-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg\n" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-backports.sources
exit
sudo apt-get update

Installing the kernel:

sudo apt-get -t trixie-backports install linux-image-amd64

Microphone problems in Debian 13
Samanta Sanchez Slimbook
10 November, 2025
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