On 04/02/2012 05:07 PM, Axel Braun wrote: > Yes, as phonon did not work (and from previous experience, it was > about to create a lot of trouble). In case phonon is enabled, what > tests could I run? I can't answer Phonon questions as I do not know enough about phonon. But if you have pulse audio enabled, then I recommend installing the application 'pulse audio volume control' (pavucontrol) and run that each time you run a nominal multimedia application, to tune pulse audio for each application. Note pavucontrol won't work with the arecord example I provided below. > Yes, that was just when the script ran, but it did not have any impact - > still does not work when the front mic is enabled Ok ... understand. It is just a bit misleading for one trying to help to read that. From the diagnostic script I note: **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: VT1708S Analog [VT1708S Analog] Subdevices: 2/2 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Subdevice #1: subdevice #1 which indicates your mic is hw:0,0 [ie hw:card#,device#] Did you try as a regular user to record from a terminal with a basic alsa command: arecord -vv -f s16_LE -c 2 -D hw:0,0 new.wav and stop the recording by pressing <CTRL><C> . ... and then playback the file new.wav to see if anything was recorded. In my example 'new.wav' is an arbitrary name for a file where the audio will be saved. I choose two channels with ' -c 2 ' and that may not be correct (pay attention to arecord errors ) and I chose the format s16_L3 which may not be correct. Again, pay attention to the arecord errors. > Hm, enabling the Tumbleweed repos might be an option. I'll think about > that . Thanks Axel Well, Tumbleweed was not what I had in mind. Tumbleweed while normally reasonably stable, has run into a case currently where the proprietary nVidia graphic driver does not play well with the 3.2 GNU/Linux kernel. And I do not know how well the AMD graphic driver will support the 3.2 kernel in Tumbleweed. I see now that your openSUSE-11.4 2.6.37.6 kernel is the latest officially supported kernel by SuSE-GmbH for openSUSE-11.4. So rather than update the kernel, you could try updating alsa. There is a guide here for openSUSE users: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Alsa-update ...ie install the 32-bit alsa-driver-kmp-desktop rpm for your 2.6.37.6_0.11 kernel . Also update your libasound2 and alsa applications (don't install new ones - just update from that site). Note that once you go down that openSUSE 'alsa-driver-kmp-desktop' path, there is a possibility that everytime there is a kernel update you may be forced to update the alsa-driver-kmp rpm. Good luck, and DO try the arecord command first prior to anything else. Lee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
