Re: Getting the microphone to work on Creative Audigy

[hvw59601 <hvw59601@care2.com>]

hvw59601 wrote:
> hvw59601 wrote:
> > 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
>
> But I just noticed that on a mondo copy of this system 'digital' does 
> not show up and that makes the mic work poorly. Who knows what happened 
> to 'digital' :-(

Rebooted and now 'digital' is back:

...
Simple mixer control 'Digital',0
  Capabilities: cvolume penum
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 120
  Front Left: Capture 104 [87%] [22.00dB]
  Front Right: Capture 104 [87%] [22.00dB]
...

and now the mic records good again.

Hugo