Re: no input from microphone (Re: Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio)
Kelly Clowers <kelly.clowers@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:43 AM, lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
>
>> This on-board card shows up in lspci as
>> "Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF100 High Definition Audio
>> Controller" and is recognised fine by alsa. Sound output of that card
>> works, and I can turn up the mixer settings for the microphone all I
>> want and there is no input whatsoever from the mic. I have another card
>> installed and the same mic works with the additional card, so the
>> problem is not the mic. It used to work before I did something with
>> audacious which gave me a warning that it might not be a good idea --- I
>> don't remember what that was. Since then, the mic input of the card is
>> dead and I don't use audacious anymore. Any ideas how to fix this?
>
> Can you post the sound card info from "lspci -v" (PCI ID, etc) ? And
> please post the contents (if an) of /etc/asound.conf and ~/.asoundrc.
,---- [lspci -v ]
| 01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF100 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
| Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation Device 079f
| Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
| Memory at fea7c000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
| Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
| Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
| Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
| Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
`----
There is no /etc/asound.conf and no ~/.asoundrc.
> I believe you said you are not using PA, are you also not using
> any other sound server, like Jack or the ancient aRts or ESD?
Nope, alsa only, no sound servers.
,----
| lee@yun:~$ lsmod |grep snd
| snd_hrtimer 12604 1
| snd_hda_codec_hdmi 30783 4
| snd_hda_codec_realtek 188797 1
| snd_hda_intel 26345 0
| snd_usb_audio 84836 0
| snd_usbmidi_lib 23420 1 snd_usb_audio
| snd_cmipci 32712 2
| snd_hda_codec 78031 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi
| snd_mpu401_uart 13507 1 snd_cmipci
| snd_opl3_lib 17445 1 snd_cmipci
| snd_pcm_oss 41081 0
| snd_mixer_oss 17916 1 snd_pcm_oss
| snd_hwdep 13186 3 snd_opl3_lib,snd_hda_codec,snd_usb_audio
| snd_pcm 63900 7 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_codec,snd_cmipci,snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_hdmi
| snd_page_alloc 13003 2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
| snd_seq_midi 12848 0
| snd_seq_midi_event 13316 1 snd_seq_midi
| snd_rawmidi 23060 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_usbmidi_lib
| snd_seq 45093 3 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi
| snd_seq_device 13176 4 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_midi,snd_opl3_lib
| snd_timer 22917 5 snd_seq,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_hrtimer
| snd 52850 20 snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm_oss,snd_opl3_lib,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_hda_codec,snd_cmipci,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi
| gameport 13561 1 snd_cmipci
| soundcore 13065 1 snd
| usbcore 128498 9 ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd,usbhid,btusb,uvcvideo,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_usb_audio
| lee@yun:~$
`----
The USB stuff is loaded because there's a webcam connected that has a
built-in mic (which I don't use).
,----
| lee@yun:~$ aplay -L
| null
| Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
| default:CARD=CMI8738
| C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI DAC/ADC
| Default Audio Device
| sysdefault:CARD=CMI8738
| C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI DAC/ADC
| Default Audio Device
| front:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0
| C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI DAC/ADC
| Front speakers
| rear:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0
| C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI 2nd DAC
| Rear speakers
| surround40:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0
| C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI 2nd DAC
| 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
| surround41:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0
| C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI 2nd DAC
| 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
| surround50:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0
| C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI 2nd DAC
| 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
| surround51:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0
| C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI 2nd DAC
| 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
| iec958:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0
| C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI DAC/ADC
| IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
| default:CARD=SB
| HDA ATI SB, ALC889 Analog
| Default Audio Device
| sysdefault:CARD=SB
| HDA ATI SB, ALC889 Analog
| Default Audio Device
| front:CARD=SB,DEV=0
| HDA ATI SB, ALC889 Analog
| Front speakers
| surround40:CARD=SB,DEV=0
| HDA ATI SB, ALC889 Analog
| 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
| surround41:CARD=SB,DEV=0
| HDA ATI SB, ALC889 Analog
| 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
| surround50:CARD=SB,DEV=0
| HDA ATI SB, ALC889 Analog
| 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
| surround51:CARD=SB,DEV=0
| HDA ATI SB, ALC889 Analog
| 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
| surround71:CARD=SB,DEV=0
| HDA ATI SB, ALC889 Analog
| 7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
| iec958:CARD=SB,DEV=0
| HDA ATI SB, ALC889 Digital
| IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
| hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
| HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
| HDMI Audio Output
| hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1
| HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
| HDMI Audio Output
| hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=2
| HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
| HDMI Audio Output
| hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
| HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
| HDMI Audio Output
| lee@yun:~$
`----
The default card is a Terratec Aureon, that's where the CMI.* stuff
comes from.
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Debian testing amd64
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