Hello, I had troubles with turning off my internal mic on my HDA Intel card (Dell Latitude E6500). I would expect that the internal mic turns off hardware-wise once a connector is plugged into the external mic hole, but this is not the case with the above mentioned Dell model. So, finally I moved to ALSA 1.0.20 (both kernel drivers and debian packages). My card is recognized as "dell-m4-1 (unknown Dell)", that's why I also tried to specify other models with STAC92xx chipset. Examples of alsa-info.sh output are given here: http://www-ucjf.troja.mff.cuni.cz/~davidek/alsa_info_model_dell_m4_1 http://www-ucjf.troja.mff.cuni.cz/~davidek/alsa_info_model_dell_m6 I was surprised that some models recognized two switches digital/analog I/mixer, while others only one. However, all investigated models recognized two input sources with values Mic/Front Mic. Finally it turns out that built-in microphone works will digital switch set to "Digital", while external one with "Analog I", _regardless_ the input source settings (Mic/Front Mic). Is that expected ? I also don't know what the two sources mean, shall I better switch off the second one? If so, how ? E.g. both DAC1=0 && Import1=0 && Capture1=0? In fact I wonder what exactly these switches (Capture, DAC, Import) mean and how they are related to individual components. Can you point to me some docs for "dummies" ? This is the first time I had two mics in a laptop.... Thanks a lot for any hint, best regards Tomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user