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 1Pr59n-00024V-8z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 09:00:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 675F11C031; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 08:59:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gw0-f52.google.com (mail-gw0-f52.google.com [74.125.83.52]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 321DD1C031 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 08:59:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwb11 with SMTP id 11so2297832gwb.11 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:59:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.90.25.11 with SMTP id 11mr170768agy.119.1298192357339; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:59:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from satcidananda (adsl-152-89-198.asm.bellsouth.net [72.152.89.198]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b11sm2880860ana.38.2011.02.20.00.59.15 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:59:16 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 03:50:48 -0500 From: "Elaine C. Sharpe" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone get Acer laptop internal microphone working in Gentoo? Message-ID: <20110220085048.GA8009@satcidananda> References: 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=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 4655b58214bfa76a52a26ee1a4cd4204 In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:54:38PM +0000, Mick wrote > >> Ah ... mine have more. in alsamixer brings up all these Capture = devices: >>=20 >> Front Mic 67<>67 >> Mic 67<>67 >> Capture 80<>80 >> Capture 80<>80 >> Digital 61<>61 >> Digital 33<>33 >> Input So Digital Mic (other options are: Front Mic, Mic) >> Input So Digital Mic (other options are: Front Mic, Mic) >>=20 >> There's a microphone on the top of the screen and a jack on the >> front left of the keyboard. > > Another search on Goggle finally found something, but I'm not sure I > like it. My card shows up in "lspci -v" as... > > 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (re= v 40) > Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0372 > Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16 > Memory at d0400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=3D16K] > Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 > Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel > > alsamixer shows... > Card: HDA ATI SB > Chip: Realtek ALC272X=20 > > One solution I've seen involves modprobing the sound driver with a > parameter. Problem is I've been using kernel-mode alsa for years and > I'm an absolute newbie on "alsa-driver". alsa-driver is keyworded > ~amd64 but I'm desparate enough to try it. Maybe even desparate enough > to try the other solution, namely revert to OSS. > > If I want to keyword alsa-driver and install it, I assume that I have > to remove all kernel support for sound, i.e in "make menuconfig"... > >< > Sound card support ---> > > Is that correct? =20 I don't think so. One of my machines is a mac mini with the=20 intel HDA chipset, and I don't recall right now whether it=20 was alsa-driver, alsa-firnmware, or both but I did get it=20 working without disabling audio in the kernel. >Also, what should I specify in ALSA_CARDS in > /etc/make.conf ? > ALSA_CARDS=3D"hda-intel" --=20 caveat utilitor=20 =E2=99=AB =E2=9D=A4 =E2=99=AB =E2=9D=A4 =E2=99=AB =E2=9D=A4 =E2=99=AB=20