[ltp] every thing except the mic?

[Richard Neill]

Dan Sawyer wrote:
> All, the system is a T41 running fc9. After much fumbling, mostly random
> walk, sound and video are all working. The only exception is the on
> board mic. It is feeding output directly to the speakers and cannot be
> captured by other applications, record, skype, etc. The config is using
> standard fc9 including pulse.
> 
> Does anyone know of a sound stack debug tool?
> Does anyone know how or where in the stack mic config is connected to
> the speakers.

Use something like gnome-alsamixer, or amixer for the normal alsa
config.  You want to mute the mic on the output side. You may also want
to enable the "20 db mic boost" to get a bit more sensitivity.  As for
the input side, there are sometimes some rather confusing mixer
settings: see http://www.richardneill.org/a22p-mdk11-0.php#sound for how
I solved it on an A22 (probably still mostly relevant)

Personally, I think pulseaudio is a solution for a non-existent problem:
Arts/Esd were obsolete as soon as ALSA got dmix/dsnoop, so I'd just
uninstall it.

Richard