On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Allan Gottlieb <[email protected]> wrote: > I have two machines desktop (x86_64) and laptop (i686), both with HDA Intel. > On the laptop all is well. > On the desktop playback is fine, but recording is not, e.g., when using > skype my son cannot hear me, but I can hear him. > > On the (working) laptop alsa mixer shows two (stereo) volumes, > capture and digital. The nonworking desktop has only digital
If you have not already done so, check out the HDA documentation at: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt and HD-Audio-Models.txt Sometimes (usually?) alsa fails to detect the exact configuration of your audio chipset. You can force it to use a certain configuration when the alsa modules are loaded. For example, I have to use "6stack-digout" on mine.
