[alsa-devel] Bugs on aspire one A150

[Andreas Mohr]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:05:00AM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> "Dreamcom 10 Laptop" [7]: " integrated Realtek HD audio processor, two
> built-in Akustica digital microphones and two built-in stereo speakers"
> 
> This was the only reference up and down that I could find to _any_
> notebook's microphone manufacturer listing. I suspect that
> Aspire One has an Akustica microphone array as well since Akustica
> seems to be the leading brand (hmm, any ideas about where the
> second microphone is located if at all existing, but it must exist!!?
> - probably at the front bottom?). 

NOPE. Aspire One most definitely has a Fortemedia SAM (small array
microphone) due to this output:
http://sites.google.com/site/kengell/acer-aspire-one---dmesg

"
...
ForteMedia SAM-Soft Library Loaded!

ALC INIT
...
"

I had already wanted to add the mention of Fortemedia as microphone
manufacturer (forgot this last time), then I researched more and found it.

Fortemedia device names include FM2018-380, not sure yet which one is in
Aspire One.

http://www.fortemedia.com/products/index.htm
( especially http://www.fortemedia.com/products/fm1182.htm )

Andreas