microphone not recording

[Bill Davidsen]

Antonio M wrote:
> 2008/9/20 Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>:
>> Antonio M wrote:
>>> 2008/9/17 Antonio M <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com>:
>>>> 2008/9/17 Antonio M <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com>:
>>>>> 2008/9/17 JoaoCid <no-reply-gw at fcp.surfsite.org>:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> Also, many thanks for the feedback!
>>>>>> In fact, I've done that before also without success...
>>>>>> I've tried again, and I have the following selected in
>>>>>> Edit-->Preferences:
>>>>>> -Master
>>>>>> -PCM
>>>>>> -Line-In
>>>>>> -Line-In capture
>>>>>> -CD
>>>>>> -CD capture
>>>>>> -Microphone
>>>>>> -Microphone capture
>>>>>> -Mic Boost (+20db)
>>>>>> -Mic select
>>>>>> -PC speaker
>>>>>> -Capture
>>>>>> -External amplifier
>>>>>> -High-Pass filter enable
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Which enables the following in the switches tab:
>>>>>> -Line-In capture [selected]
>>>>>> -CD capture [not selected]
>>>>>> -Microphone capture [selected]
>>>>>> -Mic boost (+20db) [selected]
>>>>>> -External amplifier [selected]
>>>>>> -High-Pass filter enable [selected]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And also 2 additional tabs:
>>>>>> 1st tab is "options", and holds "Mic Select", from which I can try to
>>>>>> select Mic1 or Mic2
>>>>>> 2n tab is "recording", and holds 2 controls for "capture" volume
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Still doesn't work... and I am affraid that there's something really
>>>>>> stupid that I am doing/missing without knowing it... as I still find strange
>>>>>> that the console version of alsamixer only sees "master" and "capture", and
>>>>>> this last without further items (like Mic1, Mic2 or else) to select (which I
>>>>>> learned I could do with the space key, after  "capture" is previously
>>>>>> selected with the tab key).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Well, sorry for this long post, but I tried to cover it all... hoping
>>>>>> for some additional hints!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Oh, and by the way, just reminding about the environment:
>>>>>> FC8, Intel on-board sound-card, and using an output amplifier from
>>>>>> Creative (which shouldn't matter at all...)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Again, thanks
>>>>>> Joao
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>> I checked my system that is playing by an Intel 82801H (ICH8 Family)
>>>>> HD Audio Controller
>>>>> Playback is fine but I cannot record!!!
>>>>> I have the following slides in Playback:
>>>>> Master
>>>>> PCM
>>>>> Line in boost
>>>>> Mic Boost
>>>>> Beep
>>>>> Internal Mic Boost
>>>>>
>>>>> And in recording only Capture
>>>>> Input Source is: Internal Mic
>>>>>
>>>>> When I start Sound recorder I get the message that capture settings
>>>>> are not correct (But everything is selected and slides are up)
>>>>> And until latest updates in F9 Skype could work, now I have sound in
>>>>> but no way to have sound out.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Antonio Montagnani
>>>>> Skype : antoniomontag
>>>>>
>>>> forgot to say that in alsamixer I have only Master and Capture.
>>>> My Smolt page is: pub_e6353e96-ff90-440d-8c02-30efa9b752f2
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Antonio Montagnani
>>>> Skype : antoniomontag
>>>>
>>> Funny....as running kernel  2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686, SKype is working,
>>> running kernel-2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686 Skype has no microphone
>>> recording.....I blame kernel for it.
>>> Any Idea????
>>>
>> Clearly if you change only one thing and sound stops working, the kernel
>> *is* to blame for it. But something else my be the fix, if the kernel is
>> changed to tickle a problem elsewhere, although I suspect that the hardware
>> is being detected differently. You might compare the dmesg from boot of each
>> of the kernels and see if that provides useful information.
>>
>> The very first thing I would suggest is to kill pulseaudio, just using alsa
>> sound and alsamixer has been far easier to get going for input on my
>> systems. My impression is that pulseaudio is trying to do cleaver things
>> without providing clever documentation or user interface. So it works for
>> people who know the secret, and they swear there is no problem, but there
>> seem to be many tricks which you can find only on unofficial web sites, in
>> chat rooms, and the like.
>>
>> At least you can try the dmesg compare and taking one possible source of the
>> problem out of the picture. See if that helps.
>>

> Tnx for the answer, but I will not kill pulseaudio, as I understand
> that is a new feature of Fedora...of course killing pulseaudio might
> solve my issue, but not help to improve pulseaudio performances in
> fedora
> 
And having a non-working system improves it how? If you took out PA and the 
problem went away you could report it with bugzilla, or verify that it was 
elsewhere if the problem persisted.

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