Re: problem with microphone and alsa -> no sound?

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Subject: Re: problem with microphone and alsa -> no sound?
From: maasha@image.dk (Martin A. Hansen)
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 23:37:36 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 20050518213736.GC8012@image.dk>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] d6fv1b$i3k$1@sea.gmane.org>
References: <[🔎] 20050514184841.GC4865@image.dk> <[🔎] 20050518120243.GA8012@image.dk> <[🔎] d6fv1b$i3k$1@sea.gmane.org>

i have tried the mic with:

cat /dev/dsp > /dev/dsp, along with audacity, snd, and sound-recorder. i
never get to hear myself. the mic does work out fine in windows on the
same hardware and connections.

i dont use kde, but kmix is prolly just the kde frontend to amixer,
where i use alsamixer.

martin



On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 07:47:05PM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote:
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> En/La Martin A. Hansen ha escrit, a 18/05/05 14:02:
> | ok
> |
> |
> | i have now gone over the reports in the mail achive and they seem to
> be concered with missing
> | capture or mic level set to 0.
> |
> | however, i dont think that is the problem here, because according to
> the amixer dump i posted,
> | that is not the case here:
> |
> |
> | Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
> |   Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch
> cswitch-joined cswitch-exclusive
> |   Capture exclusive group: 0
> |   Playback channels: Mono
> |   Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
> |   Limits: Playback 0 - 31
> |   Mono: Playback 31 [100%] [on]
> |   Front Left: Capture [on]
> |   Front Right: Capture [on]
> |
> |
> | so any suggestions are indeed most welcome.
> |
> |
> | best regards
> |
> |
> | martin
> |
> |
> |
> | On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 08:48:41PM +0200,  wrote:
> |
> |>hi
> |>
> |>
> |>i cant get my microphone to work with alsa. i need help :o)
> |>
> |>
> |>root@flanders:/home/maasha# dpkg -l |grep alsa
> |>ii  alsa-base      1.0.8-7        ALSA driver configuration files
> |>ii  alsa-oss       1.0.8-1        ALSA wrapper for OSS applications
> |>ii  alsa-utils     1.0.8-4        ALSA utilities
> |>rc  alsaconf       0.4.3b-4       ALSA configurator
> |>
> |>root@flanders:/home/maasha# lspci | grep Multi
> |>0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER
> (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
> |>0000:02:02.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7134
> (rev 01)
> |>
> |>root@flanders:/home/maasha# lsmod | grep snd
> |>snd_pcm_oss            53444  1
> |>snd_mixer_oss          19104  2 snd_pcm_oss
> |>snd_intel8x0           32964  3
> |>snd_ac97_codec         58820  1 snd_intel8x0
> |>snd_pcm                92992  2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0
> |>snd_timer              25152  1 snd_pcm
> |>snd_page_alloc         12324  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
> |>snd_mpu401_uart         8608  1 snd_intel8x0
> |>snd_rawmidi            24384  1 snd_mpu401_uart
> |>snd_seq_device          9284  1 snd_rawmidi
> |>snd                    55364  11
> snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
> |>soundcore              11136  4 saa7134,snd
> |>
> |>root@flanders:/home/maasha# amixer
> |>Simple mixer control 'Master',0
> |>  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
> |>  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
> |>  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
> |>  Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [on]
> |>  Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [on]
> |>Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
> |>  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
> |>  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
> |>  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
> |>  Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [on]
> |>  Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [on]
> |>Simple mixer control 'Surround',0
> |>  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
> |>  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
> |>  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
> |>  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [off]
> |>  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [off]
> |>Simple mixer control 'Center',0
> |>  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
> |>  Playback channels: Mono
> |>  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
> |>  Mono: Playback 31 [100%] [off]
> |>Simple mixer control 'LFE',0
> |>  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
> |>  Playback channels: Mono
> |>  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
> |>  Mono: Playback 0 [0%] [off]
> |>Simple mixer control 'Line',0
> |>  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-joined
> cswitch-exclusive
> |>  Capture exclusive group: 0
> |>  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
> |>  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
> |>  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
> |>  Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [on] Capture [off]
> |>  Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [on] Capture [off]
> |>Simple mixer control 'CD',0
> |>  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-joined
> cswitch-exclusive
> |>  Capture exclusive group: 0
> |>  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
> |>  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
> |>  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
> |>  Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [on] Capture [off]
> |>  Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [on] Capture [off]
> |>Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
> |>  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch
> cswitch-joined cswitch-exclusive
> |>  Capture exclusive group: 0
> |>  Playback channels: Mono
> |>  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
> |>  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
> |>  Mono: Playback 31 [100%] [on]
> |>  Front Left: Capture [on]
> |>  Front Right: Capture [on]
> |>Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost (+20dB)',0
> |>  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
> |>  Playback channels: Mono
> |>  Mono: Playback [on]
> |>Simple mixer control 'Mic Select',0
> |>  Capabilities:
> |>  Mono:
> |>Simple mixer control 'Video',0
> |>  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-joined
> cswitch-exclusive
> |>  Capture exclusive group: 0
> |>  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
> |>  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
> |>  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
> |>  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [off] Capture [off]
> |>  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [off] Capture [off]
> |>Simple mixer control 'Phone',0
> |>  Capabilities: cswitch cswitch-joined cswitch-exclusive
> |>  Capture exclusive group: 0
> |>  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
> |>  Front Left: Capture [off]
> |>  Front Right: Capture [off]
> |>Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
> |>  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
> |>  Playback channels: Mono
> |>  Mono: Playback [on]
> |>Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Playback AC97-SPSA',0
> |>  Capabilities: volume volume-joined
> |>  Playback channels: Mono
> |>  Limits: 0 - 3
> |>  Mono: 0 [0%]
> |>Simple mixer control 'PC Speaker',0
> |>  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
> |>  Playback channels: Mono
> |>  Limits: Playback 0 - 15
> |>  Mono: Playback 0 [0%] [off]
> |>Simple mixer control 'Aux',0
> |>  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-joined
> cswitch-exclusive
> |>  Capture exclusive group: 0
> |>  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
> |>  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
> |>  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
> |>  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [off] Capture [off]
> |>  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [off] Capture [off]
> |>Simple mixer control 'Mono Output Select',0
> |>  Capabilities:
> |>  Mono:
> |>Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
> |>  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined
> |>  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
> |>  Limits: Capture 0 - 15
> |>  Front Left: Capture 15 [100%] [on]
> |>  Front Right: Capture 15 [100%] [on]
> |>Simple mixer control 'Mix',0
> |>  Capabilities: cswitch cswitch-joined cswitch-exclusive
> |>  Capture exclusive group: 0
> |>  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
> |>  Front Left: Capture [off]
> |>  Front Right: Capture [off]
> |>Simple mixer control 'Mix Mono',0
> |>  Capabilities: cswitch cswitch-joined cswitch-exclusive
> |>  Capture exclusive group: 0
> |>  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
> |>  Front Left: Capture [off]
> |>  Front Right: Capture [off]
> |>Simple mixer control 'External Amplifier',0
> |>  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
> |>  Playback channels: Mono
> |>  Mono: Playback [on]
> |>
> |>
> |>best regards
> |>
> |>
> |>martin
> I'm not that familiar with amix. Are you using KDE? If so, try kmix and
> compare your setting the screenshot I sent to the list. Have you tried
> krec? audacity? What have you been using your mike on?
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
> PD No need to cc: msgs to me. I am subscribed to the newsgroup.
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