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

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:25:22 -0400,
Alistair Boyle wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> > At Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:18:11 -0400,
> > Alistair Boyle wrote:
> ...
> >> 2. It should be the "capture" control that Skype or some other
> >> application should be twiddling to adjust recording volume
> >> automatically? Is it this control that should come first when they are
> >> enumerated, or is there some property that is missing from this
> >> control to tell the application which control to use? (ie: is there
> >> anything the alsa-driver does to help the application get this right?)
> >
> > The "Capture" volume is available.  Skype should choose it as default.
> > Isn't it just the old saved setup that screws up?
> 
> Clearing ~/.Skype and restarting gets the same behavior. Skype is
> playing the "front mic" control instead of "capture". I see a bunch of

Hm, then it's rather a problem of Skype.

> > ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hdmi
> 
> errors on the console when it modifies the "front mic" control. This
> is with skype-2.0.0.72.


Takashi