On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 03:45:41AM +0000, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > I suddenly can't use my microphone for voice recording any more. I made > it work before. Now with the same HW and SW, nothing get recorded. (I can > hear the echo sound from the speaker when speaking to mic). Checking back > my log, I noticed one difference: > > Previously it was: > > $ amixer set Capture '100%' > Simple mixer control 'Capture',0 > Capabilities: cvolume cswitch > Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right > Limits: Capture 0 - 15 > Front Left: Capture 15 [100%] [22.50dB] [on] > Front Right: Capture 15 [100%] [22.50dB] [on] > > Now, I can't turn the capture on: > > $ amixer set Capture '100%' on > Simple mixer control 'Capture',0 > Capabilities: cvolume cswitch > Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right > Limits: Capture 0 - 15 > Front Left: Capture 15 [100%] [22.50dB] [off] > Front Right: Capture 15 [100%] [22.50dB] [off] > ^^^^^ > > Any way to turn it on? I tried many, nothing worked. > > PS. Here is my Mic setting: > > $ amixer get Mic > Simple mixer control 'Mic',0 > Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch > cswitch-exclusive > Capture exclusive group: 0 > Playback channels: Mono > Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right > Limits: Playback 0 - 31 > Mono: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [on] > Front Left: Capture [on] > Front Right: Capture [on] > > Does it look right? > > Thanks
Can't say from your amixer output. A bit of trial and error is the main way I solve this problem... Would suggest fiddling with alsamixer instead of amixer. Joel > -- > Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) > http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ > http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
