Re: testing microphone - how?
Lisi Reisz said...
> On Wednesday 25 March 2009 18:21:43 T o n g wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:17:53 -0400, H.S. wrote:
> > > . . . Mic Boost. If not set, the microphone will "not work"
> > >
> > >> under Linux. Anyone knows how to easily set it up?
> > >
> > > I just do:
> > > $> alsamixer
> >
> > thanks.
> >
> > Any command line tool so that I can automate it without manual tweaking?
> >
>
> From a very helpful person on the KDE list:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > I have even resorted to Alsamixer and Alsamixergui, but they are worse
> because
> > I have no idea how to move along the settings in the first or operate the
> > second, and no amount of Googling helps.
>
> I'm writing this from memory but I thought that with alsamixer you
> could move between the various channels using the left and right arrow
> keys and move the volume of the selected channel up and down with the
> up and down arrow keys.
>
> Once you have made your modifications then you need to exit alsamixer
> (esc key) and run alsactl store from the shell.
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You can hit <F1> in alsamixer for a help screen. Might have been an idea
to have put this on the main screen, eh?
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Cheers,
Marc
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