Hello!
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:32:43 -0300
Ezequiel Garcia <elezegar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Damn!
>
> I've been all morning struggling with this.
> I have an analog microphone wired to my hda intel onboard sound card.
> Also, I have a genius webcam (gspca_pac7302) with a builtin mic.
>
> I tried arecord but couldn't capture anything from any of it, so I
> guess I'm doing something wrong. But what?
> ...
My personal experience shows me that most of the time all the
"silence in mic" is because of the muted (or very too quiet) or wrong
selected recording device.
I prefer to check this in 'alsamixer'. If you have several
microphones on your PC, there should be a possibility to choose the
device to record the sound from (on my system there are 'Line',
'Internal Mic' and 'Mic' options).
If you choose a correct device, then check if it is not muted as well
(a symbol 'M' in Alsamixer means 'muted').
If the device you need is un-muted, then raise the volume level (or
maybe 'Mic Boost' as well).
If none of the above helps, then perhaps your device wasn't properly
set up. You need to specify you soundcard model by hand in some cases.
For example, on my laptop I added the string
options snd-hda-intel model="targa-8ch-dig"
to the file '/etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf' and rebooted, after which I got
an access to all of the features of my soundcard.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Vladimir
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