On Tuesday 14 August 2012 13:25:24 Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time of the day, Camaleón. > > > Thank You for Your time and answer. > > You wrote: > > > Simple mixer control 'Capture',0 > > > > > > Capabilities: cvolume cswitch penum > > > Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Capture 0 - 15 > > > > > > Front Left: Capture 15 [100%] [22.50dB] [off] Front Right: > > > Capture 15 [100%] [22.50dB] [off] > > > > > > So. volume 100%, but both channels are off! May, You have an idea > > > how to turn it on? > > > > (...) > > > > I don't know how to engage your Capture ports *but* I can tell you > > how I can turn off mines on the fly: by opening the GNOME applet > > sound mixer and moving the "Microphone" slide to "Off" :-) > > > > So I guess that there has to be a tool to do this from command line. > > Let me do some search... got it: > > > > amixer set Capture cap → will toggle on Capture ports (L/R) > > amixer set Capture nocap → will toggle off Capture ports (L/R) > > Oh! I have read the links You have provided me w/ and You will lough > probably - how simple the solution was! - The problem did lay in need > to press space on capture switch and that's it! - That turned the > above in question status "off" to "on". That simple! - For sure ALSA > developers did not go from the point of usability (i.e. volumes higher > than zero means on and vise versa) - Or at least they could inform user > that space key should be pressed in order the ALSA mixer will turn mic. > on! > > Wow! About 10 years I did not use that mic. - just for that wonderful > ALSA mixer feature! - You know it is not easy to guess - because of the > rumors of poorly supported hardware by linux OS - especially laptops! - > Sure, ALSA developers did add some oil to that fire. > > OK, I've finished! :o) > > N, I have another problem - sound is recorded by ALSA recorder and > played by ALSA player. But, I can not hear my voice directly - that is > from mic. to speakers - only through recorded file. Do You have any > clue on this? What can be the problem? Is the microphone switched on in the playback controls [F3]? Is the volume set to a reasonable level? Switching on or off with "." (period or fullstop) Mic can be off on playback but on on record to avoid feedback.
With [F4] you switch alsamixer to the capture controls. Capture should be correctly on Mic because you are able to record your voice.. [F5] shows all controls [F1] help > > > >> options snd-hda-intel model=dell-m6-dmic > > > > > > I did try so and rebooted. Result is no mic and some errors at boot > > > time > > > - but I have sound, still. > > > > > > By the way, extra channels gone. - I tried then different > > > parameters for ALSA modules and restarted alsa-utils each time - > > > but it did not appear. So, I suppose at boot time something else > > > changes. > > > > Okay, then you can leave the alsa configuration file untouched as it > > was by default as this seems not to be the problem here. > > Yes, that I did. > > Camaleón, thank You very much for Your help - You can understand if > remind You about 10 years of not working mic. > > > Sthu. -- Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE Casilla de Correo 1519 1209 Asuncion / Paraguay Cell-Phone: +595-971-696909 -- 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/201208141727.09345.zp6...@gmx.net
