From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PokAo-0001AF-Ci for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:12:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1508CE088F; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:10:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2450E088F for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:10:24 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AiMHAEvlV01FxIn2/2dsb2JhbACXZ44adLhHhV4EhQSKOIUB X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.60,466,1291611600"; d="scan'208";a="91605647" Received: from 69-196-137-246.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([69.196.137.246]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with SMTP; 13 Feb 2011 17:10:23 -0500 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:10:42 -0500 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:10:42 -0500 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone get Acer laptop internal microphone working in Gentoo? Message-ID: <20110213221042.GB8452@waltdnes.org> References: <20110212234535.GB5499@waltdnes.org> <201102131218.40476.yohan.pereira@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201102131218.40476.yohan.pereira@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 7eda6339abc4ec991377e30495ae79ae On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:18:40PM +0530, Yohan Pereira wrote > did you add alsasound to the boot process? > > i went 6 months trying to figure out what was wrong with my microphone > until i realised that i forgot to do that! > > also unmute the microphones using alsamixer (in alsa-utils) like > Hung sugested. I had already unmuted everything before posting my question. With enough microphone boost, I have a hissing noise. I didn't know about alsasound being a daemon until today. With alsasound running, mencoder and ffmpeg and arecord now *THINK* that they are recording a sound channel. That's an "improvement", because they used to say "noaudio" before. But still nothing gets recorded. Here is a sample command I tried. arecord -f cd -t wav -c 2 -D plughw:0 foobar.wav Maybe I should go and buy an external microphone already. -- Walter Dnes