At Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:14:49 -0300, Manuel Naranjo wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Matthew Ranostay > <mranostay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 > > Sorry, ok I did that. With pulseaudio running calling to arecord > fails. Maybe a bug of pulse alsa-plugin I posted today? Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
