Adam Hardy wrote: > It was muted. Ha! Discovered that in alsamixer eventually. Couldn't make > sense of amixer output - is it reading the same config as alsamixer? It's > got to be, right?
In amixer it's not that obvious > > Alsamixer has a column for line, cd and mic which allowed me to take mute > off from mic and now it comes thro from this mic on the soundcard to the > speakers, but I still can't get anything with aplay or with audacity. may be you'll need to learn about alsa, or pulse audio (which will be the interface of the future) > > Audacity has recording device choices of ALSA HDA Intel ALC882 Analog > hw:0,0, hw:0,1 and hw:0,2 > > Don't know what to make of it. This is a amixer output: it means 3 inputs - identify and feed them > > [....] > Simple mixer control 'Front Mic',0 > Capabilities: pvolume pswitch > Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right > Limits: Playback 0 - 31 > Mono: > Front Left: Playback 24 [77%] [1.50dB] [on] > Front Right: Playback 24 [77%] [1.50dB] [on] > Simple mixer control 'Front Mic Boost',0 > Capabilities: volume > Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right > Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right > Limits: 0 - 3 > Front Left: 2 [67%] > Front Right: 2 [67%] > [....] > Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0 > Capabilities: cenum > Items: 'Mic' 'Front Mic' 'Line' 'CD' > Item0: 'CD' > Simple mixer control 'Input Source',1 > Capabilities: cenum > Items: 'Mic' 'Front Mic' 'Line' 'CD' > Item0: 'CD' > Simple mixer control 'Input Source',2 > Capabilities: cenum > Items: 'Mic' 'Front Mic' 'Line' 'CD' > Item0: 'Front Mic' this means you have one built in mic ( a booster to it - it adds some db - usually not needed) then you have 3 other inputs that you can use. you can usually setup one for recording at a time but perhaps jack or something like audacity can use all 3 at a time. changing the input source in alsamixer will do the job i.e. > Simple mixer control 'Input Source',1 > Capabilities: cenum > Items: 'Mic' 'Front Mic' 'Line' 'CD' > Item0: 'CD' I would change to > Simple mixer control 'Input Source',1 > Capabilities: cenum > Items: 'Mic' 'Front Mic' 'Line' 'CD' > Item0: 'Mic' regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/htjon7$rq...@dough.gmane.org
