Here's an update in the situation ...
When I do "arecord -d 10 -f S16_LE -r 48000 -c 2 -t wav foobar.wav" and I literally put one of the speaker at full volume in one of my ears I can hear a very vere low volume version of myself.
Here's the Kmix settings currently in use (kmix is what I'm using to control my sound settings but any suggestions are more than welcome):
Output: No problems here as I can listen to music and sounds without problems.
Input: Mic is unmuted (bright green led) and selected for recording (bright red led) with slider all the way to the top. Capture is selected for recording (bright red light) with slider all the way to the top however every time I quit kmix I can see that the slider gets lowered to the minimum so I'm not sure if my changes are being saved. Everything else here is muted and not selected for recording.
Switches: Mic Boost, External Amplifier and Stereo Mic are all enabled (bright yellow led) and the rest is disabled. Sorround Jack Mode=Shared, Mic Select=Mic2, Mono Output Select=Mix, Channel Mode=2ch, Downmix=Off, _REFOUT=High-Z
I feel I'm a bit closer to get this solved and it's the only thing that's stopping me from doing a full migration from windows to linux at home (all right, I'll have to sort out the webcam as well but I asked my wife for some credit here)
Any comments that could help me to boost my mic volume are highly appreciated.
Daniel
On 15/02/2008, Phil Rhoades <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Daniel,
I have the same configuration and problem as you . . but I'm still stuck
too . . it would be nice to get this sorted out . .
Phil.
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 07:43 +0000, Daniel Sanabria wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm very new to ALSA and in fact I've never had the need to change the
> default setting before. However in this occasion and with my desktop
> PC I've trying to configure my mic in order to use programs like skype
> but no luck. I'm running fedora 8 and KDE 3.5.
>
> I hear sounds fine but my mic is not working (I use a record to test
> it and all I hear is silence). The soundcard detection utility gives
> me the following details:
>
> Vendor: Intel Corporation
> Model: 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (IHC6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller
> Module: snd-intel8x0
>
> What I noticed is that in Kmix under the input tab if try to put the
> capture slider to the top it gets down to 0 every time I quit the app.
> Also and since the PC is Dell Dimension 5000 I have two mic connectors
> (one at the front and the other at the back of the PC) and they appear
> to be listed in kmix as mic1 and mic2 but none of them is working.
>
> My /etc/modprobe.conf below:
>
> [root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/modprobe.conf
> alias eth0 b44
> alias scsi_hostadapter libata
> alias scsi_hostadapter1 ata_piix
> alias scsi_hostadapter2 usb-storage
> alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
> options snd-card-0 index=0
> options snd-intel8x0 index=0
> alias wlan0 ath5k
>
> [root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i alsa
> alsa-utils-1.0.15-1.fc8
> alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.15-2.fc8
> alsa-lib-1.0.15-1.fc8
> alsamixergui-0.9.0-0.3.rc1.fc8.2
> bluez-utils-alsa-3.20-4.fc8
>
> I have no ~/.asoundrc ...
>
> Any help is extremely appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Daniel
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