Hello,

I can't get the mic of my headset to work in Slackware 10.1. The headphone works, but the mic doesn't. I have the Audigy Player soundcard.

It's not a permission problem, as I did
The output of lsmod is
The volume of the mic in KMixer is set to 100%. I have no idea what the problem is. It would be great if someone could help me with that. Thanks.

Lars

have you set it to be 'captured' by the soundcard?

I suggest using alsamixer (type alsamixer at a terminal) as that seems to work consistently across a lot of soundcards. Tab moves between three 'views', playback, capture & combined (ie both at once) & you use the arrow keys, left & right to choose channels & up/down to raise/lower volumes. M toggles mute/unmute & spacebar toggles capture on/off. When capture is on it will show in red writing.

You need to be in the capture view, go to the microphone channel with the arrows, use M to unmute if necessary (when muted MM shows at the bottom) & use the spacebar to turn on the capture if necessary & raise the volume.

It is confusing at first because there are two voulme controls involved: playback volume controls what goes out but the capture volume controls what goes in. Its all about control I guess

Sorry if I have told you anything you know but this is a 1st stop check for me. I once had a very embarrasing recording session with a vocalist present & all was going wrong until 1/2 an hour later I found I hadn't selected the input to be captured! (Blush)

Let me know if this helps

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately I can't turn on the capture for any channel. The spacebar doesn't change anything. In KMix the Input fields is also empty. Maybe it's a driver problem. Is there any additional module I have to load?

Hm, I just noticed something else...
That's really weird. I have no idea what the problem is, because the card seems to configured fine.

I must admit I am a bit stumped. Have you tried running alsaconf (as root) to see if that fixes it? Another thing to try may be to try something (say the alsamixer) as root. If it works as root then you know it is a permissions problem.

I have a machine with a Soundblaster platinum that uses the emu10k1 drivers same as your audigythat works fine. I am not on it now but when I am I will compare your lsmod to mine & see if there are any differences.

(BTW you are using alsa drivers that match your kernel. If you upgrade your kernel you need to update alsa as well.)

Post the output with
amixer scontrols
(or amixer -c 0 scontrols, 0 being the number of your card)

Thanks again. alsaconf as root was the first thing I did when configuring sound. There were no problems and the card was detected and configured properly. I also tried alsamixer as a normal user and as root. With both users it is the same problem. I can't toggle the views and it seems that no input channels are detected. The alsa packages match the kernel, because I didn't do any kernel upgrade. I still use the original 2.4.29. I'm really confused, because it seems that the permissions are set correctly and the driver works fine. If you could compare your lsmod to mine that would be great. Thanks for that.

The following is the output for amixer scontrols:

Hi

My amixer shows a lot more than yours, some is the breakout box:

Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Simple mixer control 'Headphone LFE',1
Simple mixer control 'Headphone',1
Simple mixer control 'Headphone Center',1
Simple mixer control 'Tone',0
Simple mixer control 'Bass',0
Simple mixer control 'Treble',0
Simple mixer control '3D Control - Switch',0
Simple mixer control '3D Control Sigmatel - Depth',0
Simple mixer control '3D Control Sigmatel - Rear Depth',0
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
Simple mixer control 'Surround',0
Simple mixer control 'Center',0
Simple mixer control 'LFE',0
Simple mixer control 'Synth',0
Simple mixer control 'Wave',0
Simple mixer control 'Wave Center',0
Simple mixer control 'Wave LFE',0
Simple mixer control 'Wave Surround',0
Simple mixer control 'Line',0
Simple mixer control 'Line LiveDrive',0
Simple mixer control 'Line2 LiveDrive',1
Simple mixer control 'CD',0
Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost (+20dB)',0
Simple mixer control 'Mic Select',0
Simple mixer control 'Video',0
Simple mixer control 'Phone',0
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Coaxial',0
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 LiveDrive',0
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Optical Raw',0
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 TTL',0
Simple mixer control 'PC Speaker',0
Simple mixer control 'Aux',0
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
Simple mixer control 'Mix',0
Simple mixer control 'Mix Mono',0
Simple mixer control 'AC97',0
Simple mixer control 'EMU10K1 PCM',0
Simple mixer control 'EMU10K1 PCM Send',0
Simple mixer control 'EMU10K1 PCM Send Routing',0
Simple mixer control 'External Amplifier',0
Simple mixer control 'SB Live Analog/Digital Output Jack',0
Simple mixer control 'Sigmatel 4-Speaker Stereo',0
Simple mixer control 'Sigmatel Output Bias',0
Simple mixer control 'Sigmatel Surround',0
Simple mixer control 'Sigmatel Surround Phase Inversion Playback ',0

my lsmod is:
Module Size Used by
msdos 8064 0
snd_seq_oss 30336 0
snd_seq_midi 6560 0
snd_emu10k1_synth 6144 0
snd_emux_synth 33664 1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_virmidi 5760 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_midi_event 5888 3 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi
snd_seq_midi_emul 6400 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_dummy 2820 0
snd_seq 46864 12 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq _dummy
ipv6 231488 8
autofs 12416 1
snd_pcm_oss 45600 0
snd_mixer_oss 15616 1 snd_pcm_oss
ohci_hcd 18692 0
ehci_hcd 30088 0
ub 16028 0
amd_k7_agp 6540 1
usb_storage 40068 0
parport_pc 24132 0
parport 30536 1 parport_pc
uhci_hcd 28560 0
i2c_viapro 6800 0
via686a 17304 0
i2c_sensor 2944 1 via686a
i2c_core 17424 3 i2c_viapro,via686a,i2c_sensor
snd_emu10k1 101380 4 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_rawmidi 20000 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1
snd_seq_device 6924 8 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawm idi
snd_ac97_codec 73980 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_pcm 76680 5 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 20740 3 snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 7428 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem 3456 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 6944 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd 46340 19 snd_seq_oss,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_emu10 k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
soundcore 7264 1 snd
emu10k1_gp 2688 0
gameport 11656 2 emu10k1_gp
8139too 21248 0
mii 4480 1 8139too
pcmcia 20616 0
yenta_socket 18952 0
rsrc_nonstatic 10496 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 40984 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
nls_utf8 1792 1
evdev 7168 0
agpgart 28104 1 amd_k7_agp
psmouse 25732 0
ntfs 169616 1
vfat 10368 4
fat 44828 2 msdos,vfat
nls_iso8859_1 3968 4
nls_cp437 5632 4
unionfs 190996 1
squashfs 30644 9
isofs 31288 1
zlib_inflate 17280 2 squashfs,isofs
loop 13448 18

hope this helps

BTW above is from a home grown live disc using slack 10.1 but with a 2.6.12 kernel (long story) so some of the differences will reflect that.

Thanks for posting your stuff. The amixer output is very similar. I only noticed that you have the following line which I'm missing:
The lsmod output is pretty much the same. That's really weird. I can't figure out why I don't have any input channels.

just a Q.
do you have separate input/output plugs on that card,
or must they be configured as either output or input.

for example :i have a simple onboard soundchip and i can configure
the mic. jack as input or as one of the outputs for 5.1 sound.
of course, if i choose it as output, i cannot use it as input.

egag

Hm, I think I don't have separate input/output plugs. At least I only have the normal 5 plugs with different colours. If I understand you right, the problem could be that everything is configured as output and I have to tell the mic jack that it is input? The problem is that I can't switch the view in alsamixer (spacebar on the mic channel doesn't change anything, it is always playback.

that could be because all is configured as output.
can you look in your cards documentation.
( or check their website )

for my mobo, i have to change some jumpers.
but your card is more advanced, so....see docs to be sure...

egag

Ok, I downloaded their technical documentation, but unfortunately it doesn't say anything about linux. There were also no information about setting jumpers or stuff like that. Honestly I can't imagine that there is some hardware stuff to change, because the audigy player is such a popular soundcard (if not the most used soundcard at all) and I haven't read any problems concerning that. I'm afraid it must be something with my configuration.