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Old 01-31-2007, 03:47 PM   #1
galle
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microphone works in oss but not in alsa (SOLVED)


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Hello everyone!

I hope someone can help me get my microphone going. I have a nforce motherboard with NVidia CK804 integrated sound using the intel8x0 driver. Playback is working fine but I have some trouble getting my microphone to work:

When I run skype my microphone is working, however when I run 'aoss skype' to get the sound dmix'ed playback works fine but the microphone doesn't work.

I can hear sound from the microphone in my speakers, but both arecord and audacity only record silence. I tried running 'arecord -D hw:0,1 test.wav' to see if that made any difference, but that gave the error:
Code:
Recording WAVE 'test.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono
arecord: set_params:904: Sample format non available
I'm thinking it must be a mute problem since recording works, but I've tried everything in the capture tab in alsamixer without result. My current alsamixer settings can be seen here:
Partial playback tab.
Capture tab.

I don't know what to try next. If anyone has a suggestion I would really appreciate it, and thank you for reading!

PS: if it is any help, here is the (compressed) output from 'arecord -l -L':
Code:
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: CK804 [NVidia CK804], device 0: Intel ICH [NVidia CK804]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CK804 [NVidia CK804], device 1: Intel ICH - MIC ADC [NVidia CK804 - MIC ADC]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

PCM list:
hw {@args.0 CARD
        @args.1 DEV
        @args.2 SUBDEV
        @args.CARD { type string
                                 default { @func getenv
                                                vars { 0 ALSA_PCM_CARD
                                                           1 ALSA_CARD}
                                                default { @func refer
                                                                name 'defaults.pcm.card'}}}
        @args.DEV { type integer
                              default { @func igetenv
                                             vars { 0 ALSA_PCM_DEVICE}
                                            default { @func refer
                                                           name 'defaults.pcm.device'}}}
        @args.SUBDEV { type integer
                                    default {@func refer
                                                  name 'defaults.pcm.subdevice'}}
        type hw
        card $CARD
        device $DEV
        subdevice $SUBDEV}
plughw { @args.0 CARD
               @args.1 DEV
               @args.2 SUBDEV
               @args.CARD { type string
                                        default { @func getenv
                                                        vars { 0 ALSA_PCM_CARD
                                                                   1 ALSA_CARD}
                                                        default { @func refer
                                                                       name 'defaults.pcm.card'}}}
                @args.DEV { type integer
                                      default { @func igetenv
                                                      vars { 0 ALSA_PCM_DEVICE}
                                                      default { @func refer
                                                                      name 'defaults.pcm.device'}}}
               @args.SUBDEV { type integer
                                            default { @func refer
                                                            name 'defaults.pcm.subdevice'}}
                type plug
                slave.pcm { type hw
                                     card $CARD
                                     device $DEV
                                     subdevice $SUBDEV}}
plug { @args.0 SLAVE
           @args.SLAVE { type string}
            type plug
            slave.pcm $SLAVE }
shm { @args.0 SOCKET
           @args.1 PCM
           @args.SOCKET { type string}
           @args.PCM { type string}
            type shm
            server $SOCKET
            pcm $PCM}
tee { @args.0 SLAVE
         @args.1 FILE
         @args.2 FORMAT
         @args.SLAVE { type string}
         @args.FILE { type string}
         @args.FORMAT { type string
                                      default raw }
          type file
          slave.pcm $SLAVE
          file $FILE
          format $FORMAT}
file { @args.0 FILE
         @args.1 FORMAT
         @args.FILE { type string}
         @args.FORMAT { type string
                                      default raw}
          type file
          slave.pcm null
          file $FILE
          format $FORMAT}
null { type null}
cards 'cards.pcm'
front 'cards.pcm.front'
rear 'cards.pcm.rear'
center_lfe 'cards.pcm.center_lfe'
side 'cards.pcm.side'
surround40 'cards.pcm.surround40'
surround41 'cards.pcm.surround41'
surround50 'cards.pcm.surround50'
surround51 'cards.pcm.surround51'
surround71 'cards.pcm.surround71'
iec958 'cards.pcm.iec958'
spdif 'cards.pcm.iec958'
modem 'cards.pcm.modem'
phoneline 'cards.pcm.phoneline'
default 'cards.pcm.default'
dmix 'cards.pcm.dmix'
dsnoop 'cards.pcm.dsnoop'

Last edited by galle; 01-31-2007 at 04:56 PM.
 
Old 01-31-2007, 04:40 PM   #2
galle
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This is a bit embarrasing. Half an hour after I posted this I found the solution on google. In the ALSA faq of all places...

Anyhow, what was needed was to run aumix and set the 'IGain' to 100%.

Thanks anyway! I love linuxquestions.org!
 
Old 01-31-2007, 04:41 PM   #3
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Glad to see you solved it. Could you post what you did and your setup. I see this many times here so this could help others with similiar problems.

edit: Never mind. Just as I posted you did what I was asking for and posted your answer. Thanks for the info.
edit:

Brian

Last edited by Brian1; 01-31-2007 at 04:43 PM.
 
Old 03-15-2007, 10:00 AM   #4
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Thanks for posting this. It helped with me with the exact same problem.
 
  


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