Re: sound problem debian wheezy

[tom arnall <kloro2006@gmail.com>]

Ric,

BAD MIC!  ;o(

i was mislead into thinking it was good. i was using the mic with
windows skype and skype was picking up my voice so i assumed the mic
was working.  wrong!  skype was picking up my voice from the
computer's internal mic.

i had reinstalled pulse after my previous response to yr email and
indeed, as the debian pulse page says, it 'just worked.' the mic
however was a different matter.

thanks again for your help.

Tom


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On 7/28/14, tom arnall <kloro2006@gmail.com> wrote:
> Two weeks ago I installed Debian wheezy and was using pulse audio with
> good results. Then suddenly the external mic wasn't working. I removed
> pulse from the system and the process seemed to have made alsa the
> sound system. I also added some alsa stuff. The commands for this:
>
> 	sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils
> gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio libpulse-browse0 paman pavumeter pavucontrol
>
> 	sudo rm /etc/asound.conf
>
> 	rm ~/.pulse-cookie
>
> 	rm -fR ~/.pulse
>
> 	sudo apt-get install alsa-base alsa-tools\
> 	   alsa-tools-gui alsa-utils alsa-oss\
> 	   alsamixergui libalsaplayer0
>
> Still no external mic. By 'external mic' I mean the one I plug into
> the round port, not a USB mic.
>
> The machine is a lenovo t400
>
> I checked that the hardware is ok by using it under windows dual-boot.
>
> I am sure that people need more info than this, but I have no idea
> what that info might be.
>