From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GXMDr-0006wA-62 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:20:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9AIJpGN011812; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:19:51 GMT Received: from colo15.ukhost4u.com (colo15.ukhost4u.com [85.13.251.161]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9AIDXdO024580 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:13:33 GMT Received: from host86-141-154-124.range86-141.btcentralplus.com ([86.141.154.124] helo=[192.168.0.6]) by colo15.ukhost4u.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1GXM6X-0007FM-GB for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:13:25 +0100 From: "Matthew R. Lee" Organization: CASEB, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Intel HDA soundcard, microphones and skype Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:12:50 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200610100642.08193.gentoo@matthewlee.org> <7573e9640610101023t136cb24dpac262576bed4a310@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7573e9640610101023t136cb24dpac262576bed4a310@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610101412.50467.gentoo@matthewlee.org> X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - colo15.ukhost4u.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - matthewlee.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Archives-Salt: 286adbfd-e0ec-4a7d-91d6-ba81c1e9429b X-Archives-Hash: cf88b1713b3b77b272032e06284594b8 On Tuesday 10 October 2006 13:23, Richard Fish wrote: > On 10/10/06, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > Has anybody got skype woking with this soundcard. Perhaps you could post > > your .asoundrc for me to have a look > > Unfortunately Intel's HDA isn't really a sound card, but a standard > way of talking to sound cards. The actual chips are made by various > manufacturers, and it really is a bit of a mess. > > 1. You should not have a .asoundrc. Current alsa versions (since > 1.0.9) will automatically use dmix/dsnoop as necessary. In almost > every case, it is wrong to have a .asoundrc. > > 2. Which version of alsa-drivers are you using? 1.0.13 would be my > recommendation, although you may have some issues with MSI > interrupts... > > 3. Can you post the contents of /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 and also > the output of "amixer"? > > -Richard Just found a patch on the gentoo forums for this problem, but for the alsa-driver-1.0.11 I'm using 1.0.13 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-502890-highlight-microphone.html Problem is I've never patched anything in my life. How do I use this? Matt -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee. CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago, CP 6513677 CHILE. matt@matthewlee.org mlee@bio.puc.cl URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list