On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:43 AM, lee <l...@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote: > Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> writes: > >> On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 01:06:30PM +0200, lee wrote: >>> Having that said, alsa doesn't fully work in that the microphone input >>> of the on-board sound card is dead ever since audacious did something to >>> it. Pulseaudio won't fix that, and better don't ever run audacious ... >> >> Start a new thread, and no doubt someone will be able to help fix the >> problems with your microphone input. > > The "start a new thread" request always kills the discussion. Let's see > what happens when I make a new one out of this ... > >> Hint: many people are probably running audacious *and* successfully >> using their microphone. > > I don't think it's fixable. Sure it is. You even say it used to work. So unless that part of the chip physically failed, it can be fixed.
> This on-board card shows up in lspci as > "Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF100 High Definition Audio > Controller" and is recognised fine by alsa. Sound output of that card > works, and I can turn up the mixer settings for the microphone all I > want and there is no input whatsoever from the mic. I have another card > installed and the same mic works with the additional card, so the > problem is not the mic. It used to work before I did something with > audacious which gave me a warning that it might not be a good idea --- I > don't remember what that was. Since then, the mic input of the card is > dead and I don't use audacious anymore. Any ideas how to fix this? Can you post the sound card info from "lspci -v" (PCI ID, etc) ? And please post the contents (if an) of /etc/asound.conf and ~/.asoundrc. I believe you said you are not using PA, are you also not using any other sound server, like Jack or the ancient aRts or ESD? Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAFoWM=-7f-42veg0zz8am5cim+8+mydz8qnbxwl_fk7ng5q...@mail.gmail.com
