On Friday 18 February 2011 09:45:44 Mick wrote: > On Sunday 13 February 2011 22:10:42 Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:18:40PM +0530, Yohan Pereira wrote > > > > > did you add alsasound to the boot process? > > > > > > i went 6 months trying to figure out what was wrong with my microphone > > > until i realised that i forgot to do that! > > > > > > also unmute the microphones using alsamixer (in alsa-utils) like > > > Hung sugested. > > > > > I had already unmuted everything before posting my question. With > > > > enough microphone boost, I have a hissing noise. I didn't know about > > alsasound being a daemon until today. With alsasound running, mencoder > > and ffmpeg and arecord now *THINK* that they are recording a sound > > channel. That's an "improvement", because they used to say "noaudio" > > before. But still nothing gets recorded. Here is a sample command I > > tried. > > > > arecord -f cd -t wav -c 2 -D plughw:0 foobar.wav > > > > Maybe I should go and buy an external microphone already. > > I do not have your hardware, but on my laptop I could not get the > microphone to work until I switched on the digital capture and selected > "Digital" under Input Source in alsamixer. For some reason it would not > work with any other setting.
Perhaps because there is no analogue audio capture on my machine ... ? $ cat /proc/asound/devices 2: : timer 3: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback 4: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture 5: [ 0- 0]: hardware dependent 6: [ 0] : control 7: [ 1- 3]: digital audio playback 8: [ 1- 0]: hardware dependent 9: [ 1] : control 10: : sequencer HTH. -- Regards, Mick
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