On Tuesday September 15 2009 1:42:39 pm Boris Epstein wrote:
Hello everyone,
I've got a bunch of machines running OpenSuSE 11.1 (32-bit and 64-bit) and all of them have one thing in common: the default built-in microphone on them does not pick anything up. Is there a known fix I have missed out on?
I don't see any responses to this, so I figured I'd give you my own experience with getting a mic to work with alsa. Sometimes, after a new installation or an update or something that changes my mixer settings, my mic refuses to work. You would think that the standard response would be to make sure the mic is turned up and not muted. However, if there is more than one mic input, alsa doesn't always make a logical assumption of which one should be default. Even after changing that, I have to make sure capture is not muted. Unmuting capture on my main machine gives me a terrible squeal, so I futz around until I get rid of that (never having really put any mental effort into it, I couldn't tell you how I did that). In addition, sometimes software has its own rules about what it takes sound input from. For instance, if you use KDE4 and want to make sure that's working correctly, you need to look at the sound devices it uses. Blah blah blah. I hope something here helps you. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org