On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:25:24 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: >> 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!
He, he... what a couple of "dumbs" that we are. Okay, lesson learnt: now we know two ways for enabling the Mic/Capture input from the console. > 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. Sure, it's far from an intuitive way for a user to guess how to toggle on/ off the selected input. Although "Help" (F1) can indeed "help" to find out ;-) > OK, I've finished! :o) Good to know it is working now for you. > 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? Mmm... no idea but Google seems to provide some hits (keyword: "mic output speaker linux") but I can't find an easy way to get this from my netbook. I guess there should be an additional "output" control for the Mic and selecting this as the default "output" should create the loop but I can only see one general output listed in alsamixer. Wait... I just have discovered that by running alsamixer and selecting the real sound card (Intel HDA) instead PulseAudio (which is selected by default) now I have lots of controls available: Master, Headphone, Speaker, PCM, Front Mic, Mic, Beep, Capture, Digital and Internal Mic. How can that be? Is PA is monopolizing the audio I/O? I'm stumped :-? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/k0g9pm$anh$3...@dough.gmane.org
