[ltp] Loosing alsa, under Debian, on ThinkPad T61...

[Richard Neill]

Are you really sure this is an alsa problem?

Usually, what's wrong is just one of the mixer settings. It's stupidly 
hard to make sound recording work right. Here are some instructions for 
an A22 - see section [5].

http://richardneill.org/a22p-mdk11-0.php#sound


Regards,

Richard



Petar Milin wrote:
> Hello ALL!
> Hope my Subject is palatal to grasp the problem. Simply: I lost Internal 
> Mic and I cannot use Skype, which I need very much.
> If I do: purge all alsa related files (gstreamer0.10-alsa, alsa-base, 
> alsa-tools, linux-sound-base), reboot; then install them again; 
> everything is happy and internal mic is working. However, either if I 
> start Skype or reboot, or whatever, alsa crashes -- internal mic is 
> dead, although I can hear sound.
> Please, help me with this! I really need Skype...
> 
> To repeat: I use Debian testing on my ThinkPad T61.
> 
> Best,
> PM