John Andersen wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 March 2007, John ffitch wrote:
>
>> I was using my laptop (Suse10.2) and tried switching my microphone on
>> in alsamixer -- everything went quiet. Now I have no sound other that
>> the beeps. aplay says it is playing but silence. Audacity says it is
>> playing and silence.
>> I have done the obvious -- nothing is muted in alsamnixer;
>> re-configured the sound card; rebooted the machien. Powered it off,
>> waited and restarted -- and still silence.
>>
>> I was using the sound earlier in the day, and I NEED the sound to
>> teach my DSP class. Any ideas of (a) what happened and more
>> importantly (b) how to restore sounds?
>>
>> Machine is ThinkPadX40
>>
>> ==John ffitch
>>
>
> I'm guessing its an intel sound chipset. What a flaming
> piece of crap that High Definition Audio is.
>
> Start by yast, ripping out the sound system and putting it
> back in piece by piece.
>
> I had one new Dell 9200 desktop that simply refused to give
> sound for more than a few minutes. I dicked around with it for
> three hours and finally said enough, grabbed a ancient sound blaster
> card out of the spare parts bin, slapped it in and had sound
> in 5 minutes flat.
>
I have an HP dv5237cl and lost the Microphone sometime back. The audio
out was
very weak too. I replaced the alsa stuff by compiling the latest from
the alsa web site and my audio volume out was restored to normal. The
microphone issues persisted.
I notice a new RC from Alsa now so will eventually get around to trying
that. Meanwhile, I purchased a USB headset and the microphone works
perfectly for Skype etc.
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