Re: Help with sound card
Hi Orr, Try switching external amplifier in alsamixer on or off, this had helped me with a similar microfone issue a while ago. Use full view in alsamixer to see all alsa settings and controls. New kernel can introduce new alsa setting or control that you do not see in your current configuration. When you use a vanilla kernel (compiled your own kernel) you must use alsa-tools, alsa-lib, alsa-utils, etc. from alsa-project.org. Do not use FC6 alsa-tools on non-FC6 kernels. - Moshe Orr Dunkelman wrote: Long story short: Laptop, sound card, microphone doesn't work. Windows - work. Laptop: Compaq Evo N800V (four years old) FC6. Standard. Kernel - 2.6.20.4 - manually compiled. modules (courtesy of lsmod): snd_intel8x0 31644 4 snd_ac97_codec 89508 1 snd_intel8x0 ac97_bus2560 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_seq_dummy 3972 0 snd_seq_oss29312 0 snd_seq_midi_event 7296 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq45808 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 7948 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq snd_pcm_oss39552 0 snd_mixer_oss 15616 3 snd_pcm_oss parport_pc 26020 1 snd_pcm71172 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 21252 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm pcmcia_core39716 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic snd49668 13 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 7776 3 snd snd_page_alloc 9992 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm pcspkr 3328 0 playes with alsamixer. results: when microphone is on, switch: Microphone Capture, I hear from the speakers whatever I say into the mic. when it's off - nothing. Tried all combinations of Line-in capture, microphone capture, +20 db Boost, and IEC 958. Tried both mic1 and mic2 for inputs (surprisingly only mic1 works). No other sound device (especially not a mic). Permissions: /dev/dsp and /dev/snd/* were user.root and user.user, permission 600. none worked. anyone with some guess why this happens? google tells me a lot about two sound cards, but I have only one, and alsamixer does not solve the problem. Thanks! -- Moshe Gorohovsky A6 CC A7 E1 C2 BD 8C 1B 30 8E A4 C3 4C 09 88 47 Tk Open Systems Ltd. --- - Tel: +972.2.679.5364, http://www.tkos.co.il - = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help with sound card
Just FYI, It is a known issue that many times skype will not work without Microphone capture on. On Thursday 12 April 2007 01:00:31 Orr Dunkelman wrote: Long story short: Laptop, sound card, microphone doesn't work. Windows - work. Laptop: Compaq Evo N800V (four years old) FC6. Standard. Kernel - 2.6.20.4 - manually compiled. modules (courtesy of lsmod): snd_intel8x0 31644 4 snd_ac97_codec 89508 1 snd_intel8x0 ac97_bus2560 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_seq_dummy 3972 0 snd_seq_oss29312 0 snd_seq_midi_event 7296 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq45808 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 7948 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq snd_pcm_oss39552 0 snd_mixer_oss 15616 3 snd_pcm_oss parport_pc 26020 1 snd_pcm71172 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 21252 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm pcmcia_core39716 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic snd49668 13 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss, snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 7776 3 snd snd_page_alloc 9992 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm pcspkr 3328 0 playes with alsamixer. results: when microphone is on, switch: Microphone Capture, I hear from the speakers whatever I say into the mic. when it's off - nothing. Tried all combinations of Line-in capture, microphone capture, +20 db Boost, and IEC 958. Tried both mic1 and mic2 for inputs (surprisingly only mic1 works). No other sound device (especially not a mic). Permissions: /dev/dsp and /dev/snd/* were user.root and user.user, permission 600. none worked. anyone with some guess why this happens? google tells me a lot about two sound cards, but I have only one, and alsamixer does not solve the problem. Thanks! -- Regards, Tzahi. -- Tzahi Fadida Blog: http://tzahi.blogsite.org | Home Site: http://tzahi.webhop.info WARNING TO SPAMMERS: see at http://members.lycos.co.uk/my2nis/spamwarning.html To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: avoiding the microsoft tax - laptop linux refund?
Just following this up for other poor souls researching such a thing in Israel. Or, as an alternative, does anybody have a specific supplier recommendation for either T43 or a comparable linux-friendly laptop, somebody in Israel that would be prepared to work with the University and be willing to sell w/o Windows? [SNIP] I know that HP sells systems with SUSE 9.2 pre-installed. Maybe you should check that option. [SNIP] Currently the HP 14 models from the preferred dealer here are all wide screen (WXGA) which doesn't fit for aesthetical reasons, so we are checking other options as well - both other dealers and other brands. My wife actually said she probably prefers a 12 model, but can do with a 14. This made the HP tablet PC tc4400 a pretty good option. I read a very enthusiastic installation report on it at http://www.place4sure.com/tc-4400/tc-4400.html , thanked Theo --- the author, --- and got even more interesting comments and warm reports about the make in return. But, following a check through the dealers with the HP/Israel, they absolutely refused to sell a non-Windows-OEM laptop (they said that maybe an order of 100 units at a minimum might make it viable). This one is sold with a special handwriting-recognition Windows version, which costs over $100! So, if minimizing the MS tax is a goal, tc4400 had to be avoided. The recent negative PR of HP wrt Linux and warranty is also a factor in our decision not to buy a unit with the Windows sticker on, even with the later clarification http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/30/199253 There was a small shop that was going to sell us an INF 12 laptop (could be it's an OEM of the same hardware that LG sells?), which had very good battery life specs in the description (1Kg in the solicited configuration, and 8 hours of battery life). They were ready to do it w/o any MS tax (i.e., Windows would have been an extra option on the price list to check off, and they had there both Vista and XP). However, they were not serious enough with respect to the hardware evaluation -- they initially promised to deliver the laptop within 2 days, then a week, then said we have to pre-sign a form saying if we wreck it we pay for it (isn't it obvious anyway?), then procrastinated further 2 days and never sent us the form; in the end, the dept. IT guys said sorry for having recommended this option in the first place. Another problem with the make is that there is no int'l warranty on it, only through the dealer. So, after all, we have gone back to the dept preferred IBM dealer, and are now going to buy either a T43 or a X60s (more likely), paying the MS tax as we go. We shall try to decline the license agreement by MS and ask for a refund from the IBM / MS directly (at least, as long as it is just a matter of mails/letters/faxes.) The up side of the story is that meanwhile my wife happily uses her current 7-year-old 3-Kg ASUS laptop, running Gentoo, and doesn't mind waiting, and also the solid-state flash drives available in Israel got larger capacity and much better MTBF. If, meanwhile, somebody on the list got acquainted with a place in Israel to buy a non-wide linux-friendly laptop WITHOUT MS TAX, please tell us. So far it looks that the MS marketing successfully forced all the dealers to pre-brand all their stock laptops as MS OEM units :-( Or, if there is any of you, who knows a sure legal route to the refund in Israel (similar to the UK-specific story http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6144782.stm ), please tell us. I do have some hope because Israeli law is a descendant of the UK one AFAIU (again, IANAL). If we do make any progress with it, I'm going to follow up any successful or unsuccessful refund attempts. VKh = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
