[alsa-devel] Fwd: Dell Studio 14, internal mic

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:54:16 -0400,
Alistair Boyle wrote:
> 
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> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> > At Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:36:47 -0400,
> > Alistair Boyle wrote:
> >> For the capture settings, "digital" should be the first setting since
> >> its the master capture control,
> >
> > You should keep this "Digital" control to 50%, corresponding to 0dB.
> >
> >> "front mic" controls the stereo
> >> built-in mic (good), "line" doesn't do anything(?), "mic" sets the mic
> >> jack (good), there are two capture volumes (capture and capture 1) and
> >> two "input source"s (line, mic, or front mic). I think there should
> >> only be mic or front mic unless there's someway to set the mic jack as
> >> "line in" somewhere else?
> >
> > This is my question, too.  The original patch mentioned about a
> > line-in.  I guess a prototype machine had it, but not on real
> > machines.
> >
> >> I can now record from the built-in mic ("front mic") vs 1.0.20.
> 
> This seems to be a bit of a regression: the recording source labels
> are reversed. To record from the built-in mic I have to set the "input
> source" selector to "mic" instead of "front mic" and vice-versa for
> plugging in a mic. There doesn't seem to be any automatic switching of
> recording sources occurring. Both recording sources still work.

Are you sure that you are using the very latest one?
Double-check the latest alsa-driver-snapshot.tar.gz.


Takashi