On Sunday 18 January 2009 00:37, Vincent wrote:
Hi again,
I have now installed the alsa-driver snapshot in a right way. Here is my /proc/asound/version: "Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.18a. Compiled on Jan 17 2009 for kernel 2.6.27-ARCH (SMP)." But I still can't record directly from the front plug. How do you configure alsa to do that? (I use alsamixer or the gnome volume controler)
Thanks
Hi Vincent.
Nice to see you now have the latest alsa driver installed. I'm not too clued up on mic problems, and my hda intel codec is different to yours (ALC662), so my alsamixer is going to show different controls to yours.
Anyway, be that as it may, my alsamixer shows 2 controls for the mic. Front Mic, and Mic, and both have switches to mute/unmute (M key toggles the mute/unmute). Logically for getting sounds out of the Front Mic, it needs to be unmuted, and the slider pushed up. Now you should get sounds from your speakers, when speaking into the mic (watchout for feedback, if the levels are too high).
Now press F4, and you should see alsamixers capture controls. Mine shows 3 controls. IEC958 (ignore that one), Capture, which has a slider, and beneath it a few dashes. To activate the control press the spacebar. The other control is for Input Source, and when on that control the up/down arrows will scroll through the source options. Mine shows, Mic, Front Mic, Line, and CD. If yours shows the same, I'd go for Front Mic. Push the activated capture slider up, and see if you can record anything from your Front Mic.
The model options for the STAC9228 codec, alsa driver snapshot, dated 20090118, are below. It may be worth trying them. You may find that some provide more controls on your alsamixer. Just add a line to /etc/modprobe.conf. Example below.
options snd-hda-intel model=ref (that I believe is the default line)
Model options for snapshot 20090118 below.
STAC9227/9228/9229/927x ======================= ref Reference board ref-no-jd Reference board without HP/Mic jack detection 3stack D965 3stack 5stack D965 5stack + SPDIF dell-3stack Dell Dimension E520 dell-bios Fixes with Dell BIOS setup
Rerun the alsa-info.sh script again, and run it as below, and attach the file saved in /tmp to your reply, as it may be usefull to Takashi. I'm not an alsa developer, but he is, and may have a suggestion which will resolve your problem.
./alsa-info.sh --no-upload
All the best, and hope you resolve your problem.
Nigel.
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Nigel Henry
cave.dnb2m97pp@aliceadsl.frwrote:
On Saturday 17 January 2009 17:49, Vincent wrote:
Hi,
I tried to install alsa-driver snapshot but I think I'm not enough
skilled
: I first uninstall alsa-lib, then I install the alsa-driver snapshot.
When
I try to (re)start alsa, I get this error: "/usr/sbin/alsactl: error while loading shared libraries: libasound.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" and a "sudo find / -name 'libasound*'" didn't return any result.
Did I do the right installation processus? What else can I try to help?
Thanks
Hi Vincent.
You don't have to uninstall alsa lib to upgrade the alsa driver. First reinstall the alsa-lib package, reboot, or restart alsa, and see if it's working now.
Post the output of cat /proc/asound/version, which will verify if the alsa driver is now the latest version (1.0.18a)
I also have an Archlinux install (Don't Panic). My hda intel card works ok with the 1.0.17 alsa driver. (ALC662 codec).
All the best.
Nigel.
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de wrote:
At Fri, 9 Jan 2009 17:57:45 +0100,
Vincent wrote:
Hi,
I'm working on a Dell 1525 and I want to plug a mic into the front
mic
port
in order to have a "clean" record. But when it doesn't record
anything,
all
I can have is the noise from the external mic. Is there any specific actions I forgot to do?
Here is my alsa-info output :
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=a9066fcfe52fa0dd7d9bcd65214855c84592bd2
5
Could you first try the latest alsa-driver snapshot (or sound git
tree)?
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/snapshot/alsa-driver-s
napshot.tar.gz
Takashi
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