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Location: The Glorious People's Republic of Austin
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preventing microphone output to speakers
Hello all,
I'm not sure if this is the right place for this question or not, but I'm trying to figure out how to keep the microphone in my laptop from directing output through my speakers whenever I am using it to record. It seems that this is the default behavior in linux, and I'd like to change it so that it doesn't do this. I have an AC97 chip in the laptop and I'm using alsa to control it.
Location: The Glorious People's Republic of Austin
Posts: 178
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Yeah, I know how to do that, but I was wondering if there was a way to keep the microphone output from going to the speakers when I am using it? I find it annoying and unnecessary.
Location: The Glorious People's Republic of Austin
Posts: 178
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Ok, now I get it. I get mike input so long as capture is on, and the microphone outputs to the speaker when it is unmuted. I should have spent more time playing with it. My mistake.
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