Microphone not working

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vantonior

Microphone not working

Post by vantonior »

Computer: HP Pavilion dv4
OS: Linux Mint 9 XFCE (isadora) 64-bit
Soundcard: HDA ATI SB (alsa mixer)
Problem: Cannot record, playback works. Getting the message "Waiting for sound system to respond" when clicking on File | Open Volume Control in the Sound Recorder.
The microphone worked when I tried a different Linux distro (Ubuntu 10.4 64-bit).
What is the right configuration? What is needed to make the microphone work?
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seeley

Re: Microphone not working

Post by seeley »

Hi!
Although i had no success you could try LXTerminal

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seeley@seeley-laptop ~ $ pavucontrol
The program 'pavucontrol' is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install pavucontrol
seeley@seeley-laptop ~ $ sudo apt-get install pavucontrol
[sudo] password for seeley: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libglademm-2.4-1c2a libpulse-mainloop-glib0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libglademm-2.4-1c2a libpulse-mainloop-glib0 pavucontrol
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
Need to get 155kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,184kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 
After having installed,

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pavucontrol
seeley
shengchieh

Re: Microphone not working

Post by shengchieh »

Be sure to use aplay/arecord when testing the mic (if you are that's great). Avoid using another program (e.g. Skype) as to eliminate
any software problem.

Sheng-chieh
pwoody82

Re: Microphone not working

Post by pwoody82 »

Installing pavucontrol simply installed another program doing exactly the same thing as the Sound program that is automatically installed in Linux mint. It gives you some options to turn things on or off, but it does not change the way drivers are already installed. Hence it did not give any help in getting the microphones working.
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