Re: Mike Capture not working in Debian Testing/Creative Live Soundblaster
Chris Lale wrote:
> David Dawson wrote:
>> I'm running Debian Testing and the mike capture recently stopped working.
>> The card is a Creative Soundblaster Live.
>> The problem is that the system will not allow any app to get mike audio.
>> On the other hand I *can* get mike audio through the card if I switch on
>> the mixer monitor.
>> I tried setting things with Alsamixer, but no go.
>> The sound system in the kernel (Debian 2.6.18-K7) is Alsa.
>
> It may be worth checking your hardware [1]. If your motherboard has
> built-in sound, this may have been detected by Alsa as the default. It
> will thus be expecting your mike to be plugged into the integrated sound
> mic socket.
Thanks, but actually the on-board sound is disabled and that would also
apply to the speaker and line input.
>
> [1]
>
[http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Sound_in_Debian_GNU/Linux#Check_your_hardware
>
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