On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 13:30 -0400, Alistair Boyle wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a new Dell Studio 14. The laptop has a built-in mic and > speakers, two head-phone jacks and a microphone jack. Using the > snd-hda-intel driver (kernel 2.6.30), sound plays fine through the > built-in speakers and I can record through the mic jack. It doesn't > look like there's a way to set the 2 headphone jack volumes, nor is > there a way to set the capture source to the built-in mic. Finally, > and not surprisingly, when headphones are plugged in the built-in > speakers don't mute. > > (The built-in mic is the current priority.) > > It looks like there were tweaks added to handle the (nominally > similar) Dell Studio 15 and 17 which can be forced on with the > "model=dell-m6" driver option but adding this option to the module > removed all the capture devices from the amixer options. A similar > result occurs for dell-m6-amic and dmic. Run: % amixer | less Here is a snippet from my Dell Inspiron: Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0 Capabilities: cenum Items: 'Mic' 'Front Mic' Item0: 'Mic' Simple mixer control 'Input Source',1 Capabilities: cenum Items: 'Mic' 'Front Mic' Item0: 'Mic' 'Front Mic' is the built-in mic and 'Mic' is the external, for me. So for me to record on my built-in: % amixer sset 'Capture' cap % amixer sset 'Input Source',0 'Front Mic' % amixer sset 'Input Source',1 'Front Mic' -- Matt Zagrabelny - mzagrabe@xxxxxxxxx - (218) 726 8844 University of Minnesota Duluth Information Technology Systems & Services PGP key 1024D/84E22DA2 2005-11-07 Fingerprint: 78F9 18B3 EF58 56F5 FC85 C5CA 53E7 887F 84E2 2DA2 He is not a fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -Jim Elliot ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
