I'm still trying to get an external microphone working on my laptop. I've been googling around for the last few hours and searching the alsa-wiki for info but I've not found the answer yet.
Here's the setup. I have a Compaq Presario V5000 laptop. It has the HDA soundcard (82801G (ICH7)) with the Conexant CXT5047 chip. I do not have the alsa drivers compiled in the kernel I'm using alsa-driver-1.0.14-rc1 which was compiled with ALSA_CARDS set to hda_intel. Sound playback is fine with amarok, mplayer, xine, etc alsamixer gives me the following controls to play with Master, PCM, Mic Bypa, IEC958, Capture, ExtMic I know what Master and PCM do Mic Bypa can be set to capture or not I'm not sure what to do with IEC958, it can be either muted or on Capture can be set to capture or not and has volume control ExtMic is set to capture and can not be changed, it also has no volume control I've tried various combinations of setting but without success Can anybody help me out, I'd love to be able to use skype again, it's a hell of a lot cheaper than making international calls home from a regular telephone. Thanks Matt -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
