[ltp] Microphone settings for Z60m

Richard Neill linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:57:26 +0100


Axel Braun wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wonder if someone has a working microphone on the Z60m. I'm running SuSE
> 10.2/alsa 1.0.13 and have the following problem:
> When I enable the build-in microphone, i has a very strong feedback into the
> loudspeakers.

Mute the microphone in the mixer. (something like gnome-alsamixer is 
probably most useful). Otherwise, you do indeed get a direct signal path 
from Mic -> Amp -> Speakers.

> Using a headset, no microphone is working, unless I enable 'capture' in the
> mixer. 

That's correct.

But this switches off again immediately.

What do you mean? Does some application switch it off for you?

Richard