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#1 2009-10-28 13:43:19
- CaptainKirk
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Can't get Mic to Work
New Arch on a 5 year old PC. I tested the mic input before I zapped the Windows that was on this machine and it was good.
Now it has oss and output is perfect, but no matter what I do, I can't get the input to work. I tried two mics, both of which work in another PC.
Running LXDE if that makes any difference.
Any ideas? I think I flipped every switch I could find in ossxmix
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#2 2009-10-28 14:52:11
- skottish
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Re: Can't get Mic to Work
Is it a USB mic? If so there's a very good chance that it won't work. OSS has abysmal USB mic support.
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#3 2009-10-28 15:02:03
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Re: Can't get Mic to Work
Nope, regular old 2.5 mm or whatever--plugged into the red plug right next to the speaker output plug.
alsa didn't seem to work at all, so I turned oss back on. I would go get a USB mic if I thought it would work however. 
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#4 2009-10-28 19:57:34
- mandog
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Re: Can't get Mic to Work
If you follow the wiki http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ALSA follow it carefully make sure you have permissions and use alsaconf you will be fine.
I'm dyslexic Please do not complain about puntuation or spelling and remember most dyslexic people have above average iq.
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#5 2009-10-28 20:28:02
- CaptainKirk
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Re: Can't get Mic to Work
OK, I will try this soon. Thanks.
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#6 2009-10-29 09:09:47
- CaptainKirk
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Re: Can't get Mic to Work
Well this is what I see:
$ sudo ls -l /sys/module/snd/holders
ls: cannot access /sys/module/snd/holders: No such file or directoryafter I installed alsa-lib alsa-utils and alsa-oss
When I run alsaconf it says "no supportd PnP or PCI card found" and then "No legacy drivers are available"
I think I may just have to get a new PC 
Thanks
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#7 2009-10-30 19:45:04
- Vladman
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Re: Can't get Mic to Work
Or get another sound card if its not a laptop.
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#8 2009-10-30 20:24:16
- skottish
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Re: Can't get Mic to Work
CaptainKirk,
When you tried ALSA, did you un-install OSS first? They are conflicting and at least in the past having them both installed caused ALSA to fail. The steps that I would take if it is installed is to uninstall it and reboot your computer so that the ALSA kernel modules get loaded up. From there run alsaconf as root.
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