Manuel Naranjo wrote: >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> Sorry to interrupt you all, but I had been trying to get the digital mic >>> of my Dell Inspiron 1521 for the last 5 days without any sucess. >>> >>> I'm running kernel 2.6.27 with included ALSA, I also tried GIT alsa, and >>> the result is the same, the mic works, but the volume is so damn low >>> that there's no way to hear it. >>> >>> I checked dell's windows drivers and my board belongs to the M4_8 line >>> and not to the M4_2 as suggested in alsa source. I also did a diff >>> between M4_2 and M4_8 and there are some differences, specially in GPIO. >>> >>> I don't know what else to do now, I had tried everything. Last working >>> alsa was 1.15 if I'm not wrong, but I'm not able to backport 1.15 to the >>> new kernel, for some reason it fails to compile. >> Do you have "Digital" volume adjusted properly (in the control name >> "Digital Capture Volume")? >> Usually this should be in exactly middle, which corresponds to 0dB. > > Yep I did. I guess you're tired of stupid support requests. Don't > worry I think I know what I'm doing very well. Tried with lots of > different model options for the module too, none worked. > > >> Anyway, please show the alsa-info.sh output with --no-upload option. >> This will tell us more detailed information. > Sure, I'm attaching 2 version. One is by not passing any argument to > the module after a fresh boot, the other one is by using > model=dell-m42 which should be mine according to my PID. BTW there are > lots of bug tickets opened for this card over the net, most related to > Ubuntu and kernel > 2.6.24 > > Thanks, > Manuel I only see the 'Digital Capture Volume' in the no parameters output. You generally need to run 'arecord -f cd foo.wav' to load the digital softvol mixer. Thanks, Matt Ranostay _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
