Steffen Kluge wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 00:08 +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: >> It turns out that the thing is connected up, but is incredibly muted. >> I've really cranked up igain: > igain is the one that matters. Does it get better if you bring that up > to 100? Also, you may want to mute mic, this only feeds the microphone > input straight to the output. This could create a feedback loop which > the sound card may try to suppress (although I doubt most soundcards > would be that advanced). Thanks for the suggestion, but the result is unchanged. > Also, cheap PC microphones are usually electret condenser mics that > require power supply from the soundcard. Not all soundcards provide > that. Sometimes only the microphone socket at the rear is powered but > the front socket isn't (like on my PC). Since it works under Win, maybe > the soundcard wants to be told by the driver to turn on microphone > power? Just guessing here... It sounds plausible though. If only I knew how... Angus
