Hi, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 15 November 2006 16:48, spmirowski wrote: > Two suggestions. First, run alsamixer from a terminal. I think you get a > much clearer picture of what's there than in the gui. Use keyboard arrows > to navigate, up and down to increase/decrease settings and M to mute or > unmute (if such a word exists ). I think I know what the problem is. In alsamixer, when I select "capture", the microphone volume cannot be adjusted - as if it was not a possible capture source. I looked at /etc/alsa/alsa.conf anf /etc/asound.state but it's all Greek to me... Here's the alsamixer screen shot (you might need to switch of word wrap to get it right) ┌──────────────────────────────[AlsaMixer v1.0.12 (Press Escape to quit)]──────────────────────────────┐ │ Card: VIA 8237 │ │ Chip: Realtek ALC655 rev 0 │ │ View: Playback [Capture] All │ │ Item: Line │ │ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ L R L R └──┘ L└──┘R │ │ ------ ------ ------ CAPTUR ------ CAPTUR ------ CAPTUR ------ ------ │ │ 100 100<>100 │ │ < Line > CD Mic Video Phone IEC958 IEC958 P Aux Capture Mix Mix Mono │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ What can I do with this? BR, Krzysztof
