On Sun, 24 Feb 2013, Alexandru Geana wrote: > Bil Unruh: > Sorry for my choice of words. What I meant with "arecord | aplay" not doing > what it should was that I could not hear myself when talking. Those two > commands should output everything that goes to the microphone and I could > not hear anything. Furthermore, the laptop does have a sound card. I have > added the output of lspci below. I would dump the output of arecord to a file, and look at the file.(it should be full of garbage-- but not repeated garbage). Or record using audacity and see if you can choose that card. > > ael: > Yes I read that and the alsa config posted on that page is not working > either. For example, if I run "arecord | aplay" without my headphones on, I > cannot hear myself. If I do the same thing with a pair of headphones, > instead of my voice I hear static noise. If I try to record myself with > Audacity without headphones, I cannot hear myself but if I use Audacity and Why would you expect to hear yourself without headphones? The sound is being sent to that sound card, not to your onboard speaker. > headphones, all works well. But then, if I use headphones with skype, I > cannot hear other people talking, just skype sounds and other people cannot Skype sounds? This seems to be a problem with skype. > hear me either. The alsa config which I am talking about is the one from > the debian wiki<http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Sound#ALSA_configuration> > . > > Today I found out that *WITHOUT* the ".asoundrc" file containing the > configs from the debian wiki, the microphone seems to work but it is very > faint. If I blow air into the microphone, I can almost hear something. Almost hear something? > > I am providing links to pastebin with the output of > lspci<http://pastebin.com/fHuSc3vy> > and amixer <http://pastebin.com/KnYJ3aZ3> running the 3.7 kernel from > experimental. If there is anything else that is needed please let me know. > I am a bit of a newbie when it comes to sound settings in general. OK, it is an intel audio device. and alsa sees it. You have auto-mute eneabled. Is that on purpose? You have the internal mic enabled. Is that correct or are you using a mic plugged into the mic jack on the front? You have checked that you have the correct module loaded for the intel soundcard? > > Thank you for your time. > > Best regards, > *Alexandru Geana* > E-mail address: *alex@xxxxxxxxxx* > > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 1:28 PM, ael <law_ence.dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 11:29:22PM +0100, Alexandru Geana wrote: >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> I have installed a fresh Debian Wheezy on an Asus EEE 1001PX and I cannot >> >> Have read http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Sound ? >> >> Do you have pulse audio installed and if so have you also installed >> pavucontrol and examined the situation? >> >> Obviously, if that doesn't help, I would uninstall pulse audio while >> trying to sort out any alsa problems, but you have probably done that >> already. >> >> ael >> > -- William G. Unruh | Canadian Institute for| Tel: +1(604)822-3273 Physics&Astronomy | Advanced Research | Fax: +1(604)822-5324 UBC, Vancouver,BC | Program in Cosmology | unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Canada V6T 1Z1 | and Gravity | www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
