On 12/19/2010 11:50 PM, Mark Goldstein wrote: > >>>> The microphone works very poorly on my HP dv5t laptop with opensuse >>>> 11.3. Sound works fine, only problem is I can not get the mic to >>>> capture normal voice. The microphone works fine on this same machine >>>> with opensuse 11.0 (on a different partition). The sound card is >>>> configured the same way in both OS 11 and 11.3. I did not update alsa >>>> because it does not seem to be a driver or driver configuration problem. >>>> >>>> cat /proc/asound/version >>>> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.22.1. >>>> >>>> cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 Codec: IDT 92HD71B7X >>>> >>>> The output of >>>> >>>> arecord -vv -fdat foo.wav >>>> >>>> Is an audible voice recording that is VERY crackly and HORRIBLY >>>> distorted. So the mic is recording, but the quality is terrible. >>>> >>>> Pulseaudio is not installed. >>>> >>>> I am including my alsa-info.txt file inline. Any help is appreciated. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Not sure whether your problem is the same as mine, but I had no sound >>>> from Mic on OS 11.3 (different codec, but also Intel HDA). >>>> Eventually it turned out that something's wrong with KDE 4.4 KMix. The >>>> problem got solved when I "disabled" "Capture1" instead of enabling >>>> it. Alsa Mixer or Gnome mixer worked correctly for me. >>>> >>>> >> Thanks, tried it but it had no effect whatsoever. Gustav. >> > OK, then another question:- is it happening with different > application? I had bad Mic capturing with Skype while other > applications (e.g. audacity) worked fine. This problem was solved by > downgrading Skype from v2.1.0.81 to v2.1.0.47. (Well, it was the same > in OS 11.1 and 11.3. I did not have 11.0 on this machine.). > > Audacity is cool, never tried it before. But still no go, sound recording is very distorted. The problem is the same on Skype, arecord and now audacity. I had thought skype might be the problem but rejected that explanation and that is why in the original post i mentioned the arecord output is also quite distorted. I think that I have an older rpm of skype somewhere. I'll try that but doubt very much that will help. Any other help is very welcome. Thanks, Gustav ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
