Ric, BAD MIC! ;o(
i was mislead into thinking it was good. i was using the mic with windows skype and skype was picking up my voice so i assumed the mic was working. wrong! skype was picking up my voice from the computer's internal mic. i had reinstalled pulse after my previous response to yr email and indeed, as the debian pulse page says, it 'just worked.' the mic however was a different matter. thanks again for your help. Tom ------------------- "Everybody is a genius, but if you try to teach a monkey to swim like a fish, all you get is a pissed off monkey." Albert Einstein, paraphrastically. On 7/28/14, tom arnall <kloro2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Two weeks ago I installed Debian wheezy and was using pulse audio with > good results. Then suddenly the external mic wasn't working. I removed > pulse from the system and the process seemed to have made alsa the > sound system. I also added some alsa stuff. The commands for this: > > sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils > gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio libpulse-browse0 paman pavumeter pavucontrol > > sudo rm /etc/asound.conf > > rm ~/.pulse-cookie > > rm -fR ~/.pulse > > sudo apt-get install alsa-base alsa-tools\ > alsa-tools-gui alsa-utils alsa-oss\ > alsamixergui libalsaplayer0 > > Still no external mic. By 'external mic' I mean the one I plug into > the round port, not a USB mic. > > The machine is a lenovo t400 > > I checked that the hardware is ok by using it under windows dual-boot. > > I am sure that people need more info than this, but I have no idea > what that info might be. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAFKYrxq_xp4i3L_M4w8NaU=9xVGztW=4uhx9ukco+wn6ayc...@mail.gmail.com
