Re: Sound wheezy/KDE -- testing the microphone

2011-11-17 Thread Sian Mountbatten
I plugged the microphone into my laptop, ran alsamixer and made sure that the capture device was not muted and set to a reasonable figure (using alsamixer) and then issued the command arecord -V mono test.wav which gave sound file which when played with aplay test.wav, reproduced the input from the

Re: Sound wheezy/KDE -- testing the microphone

2011-11-17 Thread deloptes
Sian Mountbatten wrote: > Hello! I am having trouble with a microphone plugged into my > soundcard. According to Kmix, the Playback Devices are set to about > 55%, the Capture Devices are set to 100% and both playback and capture > are shown as not muted. > > speaker-test shows that the right spe

Re: Sound wheezy/KDE -- testing the microphone

2011-11-16 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 16/11/11 04:04, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > Hello! I am having trouble with a microphone plugged into my > soundcard. According to Kmix, the Playback Devices are set to about > 55%, the Capture Devices are set to 100% and both playback and capture > are shown as not muted. > > speaker-test shows

Re: Sound wheezy/KDE -- testing the microphone

2011-11-16 Thread Sian Mountbatten
"Selim T. Erdogan" writes: > Sian Mountbatten, 16.11.2011: >> Curt writes: >> >> > On 2011-11-16, Sian Mountbatten wrote: >> >> alsamixer with F4 gives Capture all right, but it is set to 100% and >> >> still the mic does not work. >> > >> > Well, if you don't see any input sources to select,

Re: Sound wheezy/KDE -- testing the microphone

2011-11-16 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Sian Mountbatten, 16.11.2011: > Curt writes: > > > On 2011-11-16, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > >> alsamixer with F4 gives Capture all right, but it is set to 100% and > >> still the mic does not work. > > > > Well, if you don't see any input sources to select, then you're cooked, > > because you mu

Re: Sound wheezy/KDE -- testing the microphone

2011-11-16 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-16, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > > At the bottom of the frame are `L' on the left-hand side and `R' on the > right-hand side. Underneath those letters are firstly the word > CAPTURE and underneath that the characters `100<>100'. Finally, on the > bottom line are the characters `'. If all

Re: Sound wheezy/KDE -- testing the microphone

2011-11-16 Thread Sian Mountbatten
Curt writes: > On 2011-11-16, Sian Mountbatten wrote: >> alsamixer with F4 gives Capture all right, but it is set to 100% and >> still the mic does not work. > > Well, if you don't see any input sources to select, then you're cooked, > because you must Capture something or other. How would "it"

Re: Sound wheezy/KDE -- testing the microphone

2011-11-16 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-16, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > alsamixer with F4 gives Capture all right, but it is set to 100% and > still the mic does not work. Well, if you don't see any input sources to select, then you're cooked, because you must Capture something or other. How would "it" know to record your mic

Re: Sound wheezy/KDE -- testing the microphone

2011-11-16 Thread Sian Mountbatten
alsamixer with F4 gives Capture all right, but it is set to 100% and still the mic does not work. -- Dr S Mountbatten -- 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/

Re: Sound wheezy/KDE -- testing the microphone

2011-11-16 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-15, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > Hello! I am having trouble with a microphone plugged into my > soundcard. According to Kmix, the Playback Devices are set to about > 55%, the Capture Devices are set to 100% and both playback and capture > are shown as not muted. I have my microphone worki