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

[Alistair Boyle]

2009/9/17 Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>:
> 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.
>

Okay. Thanks for all your help so far!

>> >> 1. The "pc beep" is still making a bad buzz/crackling noise when an
>> >> xterm beep occurs. There's also a new "speaker" control but it doesn't
>> >> affect this behavior (unrelated?).

>> > Hm, this is basically independent from my change, and I guess this is
>> > a codec hardware issue.

The last item was the "pc beep" thing. It looks like you're the guy to
talk to about that too: is there any debugging I can do on my end to
help sort that out? It looks from the log like there's some tricky
business with getting the beep frequency right?