On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 05:14:18PM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > Hello, > > This must be a stupid question, but I am completely lost and searching > through the mailing list archives did not help. > > I have installed alsa 0.9 beta10 in my Debian sid system using the ens1370 > driver. Playing sound files is working perfectly. However, recording with > the microphone results also into a silent file. The microphone is working > well, since I hear at the speakers what I speak into the mic. With > alsamixer, I unmuted everybody, put all volume levels around 75%, and > switched everything that I could to "capture". The output of amixer is > enclosed below. > > What am I missing here? > > -- > Rafael Laboissiere
Try giving the mic a +5v Bias, and turning on the 30 dB boost: amixer cset numid=44,iface=CARD,name='Mic +5V bias' on amixer cset numid=42,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Boost (+30dB)' on note that I had to change the source a bit to get rid of some annoying clicking (not related to either of the above options).. patch below, in case you have the same problem: (will the alsa devs look in to this, please?) diff -rHU 5 alsa-driver-0.9.0beta11.orig/alsa-kernel/pci/ens1370.c alsa-driver-0.9.0beta11/alsa-kernel/pci/ens1370.c --- alsa-driver-0.9.0beta11.orig/alsa-kernel/pci/ens1370.c Thu Feb 14 11:40:33 2002 +++ alsa-driver-0.9.0beta11/alsa-kernel/pci/ens1370.c Tue Feb 19 13:38:06 2002 @@ -880,11 +880,11 @@ spin_lock_irqsave(&ensoniq->reg_lock, flags); ensoniq->ctrl &= ~ES_ADC_EN; outl(ensoniq->ctrl, ES_REG(ensoniq, CONTROL)); outl(ES_MEM_PAGEO(ES_PAGE_ADC), ES_REG(ensoniq, MEM_PAGE)); outl(runtime->dma_addr, ES_REG(ensoniq, ADC_FRAME)); - outl((ensoniq->c_dma_size >> 2) - 1, ES_REG(ensoniq, ADC_SIZE)); + outl((ensoniq->c_dma_size >> 2), ES_REG(ensoniq, ADC_SIZE)); ensoniq->sctrl &= ~(ES_R1_LOOP_SEL | ES_R1_MODEM); ensoniq->sctrl |= ES_R1_INT_EN | ES_R1_MODEO(mode); outl(ensoniq->sctrl, ES_REG(ensoniq, SERIAL)); outl((ensoniq->c_period_size >> snd_ensoniq_sample_shift[mode]) - 1, ES_REG(ensoniq, ADC_COUNT)); -- Zinx Verituse _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user