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 1PqMwI-0008Cb-5E for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:47:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 09C0B1C01F; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:46:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B37DF1C01F for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:45:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf22 with SMTP id 22so4107243wyf.40 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 01:45:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent :references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=EZ9koHO9ZW334ugnkP1NODj/SAQqbz28BtvO8tl89aM=; b=vCVzvc35EaDw4tPcdhlm7ApGDtvF11capnnEwDiZMTjsjg4XhqhhDgrMHck3B2e95B WdHHB3TOrVujcNGid1qQ3XouE8oYERiTxgCp8xM8GZSsb7d/Bt7a/o4i3QBcIqvRMuqn xUaejWlAQ0pgkfYHlxj2bXcipbBhcL//4Qb/4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=FiiFPGFgAlOLEx1fJmVbu89CICIr+P/3jj9qdL/hpQ3gsJqPC3OqGDi2QIj/N8ruel uoTG+dRK4yekyZdC4tvKKiDuptHjjAm0XziyJr2ddXPPut5O7RaE+T7NzLHQIhqt/vol 69jry0rNvrVMeLw7/QDw5Qd36bMkYtwdRmgP0= Received: by 10.227.55.137 with SMTP id u9mr410881wbg.137.1298022350543; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 01:45:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f27sm1466080wbf.19.2011.02.18.01.45.47 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 18 Feb 2011 01:45:48 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone get Acer laptop internal microphone working in Gentoo? Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:45:44 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <20110212234535.GB5499@waltdnes.org> <201102131218.40476.yohan.pereira@gmail.com> <20110213221042.GB8452@waltdnes.org> In-Reply-To: <20110213221042.GB8452@waltdnes.org> 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1949238.NktBZdI6Cu"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201102180946.03097.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 328b97bff85599f64c5c8bc521ecc81e --nextPart1949238.NktBZdI6Cu Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sunday 13 February 2011 22:10:42 Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:18:40PM +0530, Yohan Pereira wrote >=20 > > did you add alsasound to the boot process? > >=20 > > i went 6 months trying to figure out what was wrong with my microphone > > until i realised that i forgot to do that! > >=20 > > also unmute the microphones using alsamixer (in alsa-utils) like > > Hung sugested. >=20 > 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. >=20 > arecord -f cd -t wav -c 2 -D plughw:0 foobar.wav >=20 > Maybe I should go and buy an external microphone already. I do not have your hardware, but on my laptop I could not get the microphon= e=20 to work until I switched on the digital capture and selected "Digital" unde= r=20 Input Source in alsamixer. For some reason it would not work with any othe= r=20 setting. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1949238.NktBZdI6Cu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk1eP9sACgkQVTDTR3kpaLZvBACg1goiI4cqxzsf1FB1g2aIT3gw 5RYAn02EL2MeyJflwn1AeVAxaMD/pJA+ =CRGj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1949238.NktBZdI6Cu--