On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 21/04/12 21:13, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> Hi, >> Ah, for a peaceful Saturday, but I guess not this one... I'm just >> starting to investigate this but maybe someone's worked on this sort >> of thing recently? > > > Make sure the mic is selected as the "capture" source: > > * Run alsamixer in a terminal. > * Press F6 and select your sound card. > * Press F4 to get to the capture settings. > * From the available inputs, select "Mic" (left/right arrow keys) and press > space to select it as the capture source. Raise the capture volume to > maximum (up arrow key.) > * Esc. > > All of this can also be done in KMix if you're on KDE. > >
Hi Nikos, Right, all done both in KMix as well as alsamixer. No change yet. Capture was already selected and volume up. I tried with Capture1 and Capture2. No change. I tried dropping back to my earlier 3.2.1-gentoo-r2 kernel but that also didn't work. However for some reason it also had a problem with the nvidia driver and to get X I had to do a modules-rebuild -X rebuild so I'm no longer sure what state that's in WRT also. Anyway, 3.2.1 boots, KDE logs in but no microphone audio. That kernel was built on 3/17 so I'm 200% certain the mix worked on that kernel 2 weeks ago. What's strange about this (to me) is that when I'm in the Skype Test Call app (darn I like that English girl in that. Where is she from?) :-) I can tap on the mic and hear the thumps in my headphones so I know the mix works. However I'm not sure if possibly the sound card isn't mixing that directly into the audio output and maybe Alsa is never hearing the mic. Stumped. Going to try the old delete asound.state thing next... Cheers, Mark
