"Selim T. Erdogan" <[email protected]> writes: > Sian Mountbatten, 16.11.2011: >> Curt <[email protected]> writes: >> >> > On 2011-11-16, Sian Mountbatten <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> alsamixer with F4 gives Capture all right, but it is set to 100% and >> >> still the mic does not work. >> > >> > Well, if you don't see any input sources to select, then you're cooked, >> > because you must Capture something or other. How would "it" know to >> > record your microphone rather than the line-in on your sound card, for >> > instance? I have three choices as an input source, that I toggle with >> > the arrows on my keyboard: Front Mic (which is the one I use, on the >> > front of my machine, next to the headphone jack) Line (which must >> > correspond to the line-in) and Mic (which is the other microphone jack >> > in the back of my machine.) >> > >> > I don't know what you're seeing in alsamixer, but if all you're seeing is >> > "Capture", that ain't gonna get it, 'cause you gotta capture something, >> > as I say. >> > >> > Tell us what you see beside 'Capture' in alsamixer when you press F4. >> A vertical bar in a blue frame. The bar is red at the top, white in the >> middle and green at the bottom. >> >> At the bottom of the frame are `L' on the left-hand side and `R' on the >> right-hand side. Underneath those letters are firstly the word >> CAPTURE and underneath that the characters `100<>100'. Finally, on the >> bottom line are the characters `<Capture>'. >> >> The up-down arrow keys can change the `100<>100' to lower numbers. The >> left-right arrow keys do nothing. > > Can you press F2 and choose another card. Yes, Intel ICH5 and it gives me lots more controls. > I have an intel card in this > laptop and I can choose between default and intel. The former has only > two bars but the latter has lots. (More if you keep going to the right > of the screen too!) Fiddling with these I wasn't able to "get" anything > out in alsamixer but later I tried the "arecord -V mono test.wav" (from > another message to the list. That popped up a microphone icon on my > gnome-panel (in fallback mode) that had an x, so I went and increased > that from zero to some. Yes, lots with ICH5. I remove all the MM's with the m command and changed the microphone to `mic2'. When I tried arecord -V mono test.wav, I got lots of strange characters on the screen which corresponded to the noise level in the room. However, aplay produces no noise. I might add that speaker-test produces sound from the `Right' speaker, but not from the `Left'. > That gave me sound through the mic. (Tested > using aplay.) > > BTW, in alsamixer one of the bars had MM at the bottom. Pressing M got > rid of it. Maybe mute? And there was an "auto-mute" that can be > toggled using up-down arrows. Yes, I got rid of lots of `MM's that way. No auto-mute though.
I remember that when I had Windows 7, I got sound input when I chose the front microphone. Choosing Mic2 in alsamixer does not seem to work. -- Dr S Mountbatten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
