Re: [gentoo-user] Microphone problems Thinkpad X300
On 04/28/11 22:50, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Alokat mail...@alokat.org wrote: Hi guys, I have some problems to get my headset to work. I have a snd_hda_intel soundcard and the output works pretty good - like watching videos etc pp. But Skype is not able to use my mic. I can hear myself in the speakers but for some reasons I can't use the mic for a skype phonecall. I had _exactly_ the same problem on my compute server which was solved fairly easily in KDE. YMMV in some other environment. In KDE I opened the mixer. Initially it has a fairly limited set of controls. Under 'Settings' I enabled the 'Capture' channel by dragging the Capture icon over to the right side. I enabled the Capture checkbox and raised the Capture volume. Testing with the Skype test service worked and I have no trouble using Skype now. HTH, Mark Awesome . works perfectly Thank you ... Regards, alokat
Re: [gentoo-user] Microphone problems Thinkpad X300
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Alokat mail...@alokat.org wrote: On 04/28/11 22:50, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Alokat mail...@alokat.org wrote: Hi guys, I have some problems to get my headset to work. I have a snd_hda_intel soundcard and the output works pretty good - like watching videos etc pp. But Skype is not able to use my mic. I can hear myself in the speakers but for some reasons I can't use the mic for a skype phonecall. I had _exactly_ the same problem on my compute server which was solved fairly easily in KDE. YMMV in some other environment. In KDE I opened the mixer. Initially it has a fairly limited set of controls. Under 'Settings' I enabled the 'Capture' channel by dragging the Capture icon over to the right side. I enabled the Capture checkbox and raised the Capture volume. Testing with the Skype test service worked and I have no trouble using Skype now. HTH, Mark Awesome . works perfectly Thank you ... Regards, alokat Glad I could help. Enjoy, Mark
[gentoo-user] Microphone problems Thinkpad X300
Hi guys, I have some problems to get my headset to work. I have a snd_hda_intel soundcard and the output works pretty good - like watching videos etc pp. But Skype is not able to use my mic. I can hear myself in the speakers but for some reasons I can't use the mic for a skype phonecall. I have installed alsa after this documentation: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml Alsaconf does not recognize my soundcard, but alsamixer works. Is there a special Kernelmodule I need to install? gentoo user # lspci | grep Audio 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) gentoo user # gentoo user # lsmod | grep snd_hda snd_hda_codec_analog69192 1 snd_hda_intel 18522 4 snd_hda_codec 56894 2 snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_intel snd_hwdep 4964 1 snd_hda_codec snd_pcm54908 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec snd44572 18 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,thinkpad_acpi,snd_pcm,snd_timer snd_page_alloc 5849 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm firmware_class 4997 9 iwlagn,snd_hda_codec,tg3,aic94xx,libsas,qla2xxx,qla1280,advansys,pcmcia gentoo user # Regards, alokat
Re: [gentoo-user] Microphone problems Thinkpad X300
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:22:40 + Alokat mail...@alokat.org wrote: Hi guys, I have some problems to get my headset to work. I have a snd_hda_intel soundcard and the output works pretty good - like watching videos etc pp. But Skype is not able to use my mic. I can hear myself in the speakers but for some reasons I can't use the mic for a skype phonecall. I have installed alsa after this documentation: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml Alsaconf does not recognize my soundcard, but alsamixer works. Is there a special Kernelmodule I need to install? I don't think so. ...module details snipped... After installation of alsa none of the microphone channels get captured (recorded) by default. Even when you can hear them in the headset they do not get captured. Try the following: Alsamixer starts up and shows just the Playback channels. To see what is getting captured press key F4 when alsamixer is running. This shows the Capture channels. Then go to one of the microphone channels (maybe named Capture or Capture 1), and press your space bar to toggle the capturing. There should appear the word CAPTURE in red letters below the microphone channel. If capture is inactive then there are white dashes (---) below the channel. You can activate all your microphone channels for capture. Now you have your microphone captured, and can record sound and use skype. gnome-alsamixer is another graphical mixer, which I like better then alsamixer. If this does not work post the output of amixer here. Urs
Re: [gentoo-user] Microphone problems Thinkpad X300
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Alokat mail...@alokat.org wrote: Hi guys, I have some problems to get my headset to work. I have a snd_hda_intel soundcard and the output works pretty good - like watching videos etc pp. But Skype is not able to use my mic. I can hear myself in the speakers but for some reasons I can't use the mic for a skype phonecall. I had _exactly_ the same problem on my compute server which was solved fairly easily in KDE. YMMV in some other environment. In KDE I opened the mixer. Initially it has a fairly limited set of controls. Under 'Settings' I enabled the 'Capture' channel by dragging the Capture icon over to the right side. I enabled the Capture checkbox and raised the Capture volume. Testing with the Skype test service worked and I have no trouble using Skype now. HTH, Mark
