Re: Recording from front mic in Fedora 11

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 09:18 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I would like to record sounds and use voice chat. In the previous
> version, I would change the input source from mic to front mic to do this.
> 
> The new GNOME volume preferences in Fedora 11 doesn't expose all the
> ALSA controls. This is discussed in many places including:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491372
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495148
> 
> I tried pavucontrol and it doesn't seem to allow me to set the input
> source either. I had to install xfce4-mixer to finally get this. What is
> the recommended solution here?

Have you read the discussion in the bugs you are pointing to ?