Re: Getting the microphone to work on Creative Audigy

[hvw59601 <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Dr Sian Mountbatten wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have installed siduction onto my desktop as well as installing at 
> long last my new Creative Audigy sound card. I have the KDE desktop and 
> my kernel is 3.1-6.towo.2-siduction-686.
>
> I am having trouble getting the microphone to work. It is plugged into 
> the blue socket on the sound card which the manual says is for Line In 
> or microphone. arecord does not produce any sound with the command
>     arecord -Ddefault:CA0106 -d10 test.wav
> the command
>     aplay -Ddefault:CA0106 test.wav
> certainly produces a background hiss, but no actual input.

I have a:

00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP72XE/MCP72P/MCP78U/MCP78S 
High Definition Audio (rev a1)

builtin in the M4N98TD EVO mobo.

I just went through this exercise of getting the mic to work and I found 
that in alsamixer F4 'capture' has to be turned up, specifically,

Rear Mic	 81	
Rear Mic Boost	 53	
Capture	 81	
Capture 1	 81	
Digital	 71	
Input Source	 Rear Mic

Hugo