At Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:55:02 +0100, Daniele (Mastro) wrote: > > Takashi Iwai ha scritto: > > The mixer setting? You should set "Digital Capture Volume" 50%, > > corresponding to 0dB. The capture volume doesn't have to be too > > high, too. > > oh.. > i had to play a bit with alsamixer but finally i got a good result... > > my setting: > - front mic boost = 50 (option: 0, 50, 100) > - Capture enabled = 65 > - Capture 1 disabled (see below) > - Digital = 68 Keep this 50%. It's a digital attenuation/gain control and changing this makes no sense unless you have a digital mic without the hardware volume control. > - Input Source = Front mic > - Input Source 1 = Front mic (playback - see below) Is "Front mic" the external mic jack? And the internal mic works as well? > i've discovered some oddity: > > - i have 2 capture device.... (capture and capure 1) > - the first one is *really* a capture device and work only if i select > "front mic", not "mic" > - the second one is the mic playback device... and again it work only if > i use "front mic" > > should it work this way? The second capture could work independently, assigned to PCM#2. > > The vref level could be a different one depending on the mic device > > you are using. But VREF80 is OK in most cases. > > i don't know what "VREF80" but now capturing with mic work... > > now remaining problems: > - midi hardware (my card should have it): i've loaded snd-seq-midi > module and i've an alsa hardware device but i can't play midi files > (they play but i hear nothing...). i've created another alsa-info log > taken with the snd-seq-midi loaded http://pastebin.ca/909849 No, you are fooled by marketing people. It has no MIDI hardware. It's a pure software thingy. > - no "mux","mix", or "aux" record source to directly record from desktop The codec has no function to record from the mixer amp (some other Realtek codecs have, though). It's again a software issue. > - surround still doesn't work > i should have surround No, you don't. aplay just shows the available "configuration" but it the device doesn't support surrounds. Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel