At Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:23:24 -0300, Manuel Naranjo wrote: > > Takashi Iwai escribió: > > 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 > > > > > I just thought it could be pulse. Where's the bug report? I would like > to take a look, maybe I can help. http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2008-October/011425.html Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
