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davvil

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Registered: 2008-05-06

Posts: 165

[Solved] Microphone selection?

My audio device is the following (output from lspci)

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

working using the snd_hda_intel module and integrated in a Lenovo T500, if that's any help.

The built-in microphone works, but if I connect an external microphone then I get no sound input from any of the microphones. I suspect that plugging in the external microphone disconnects the internal microphone, however the applications (or alsa in general?) still try to record from the internal one. Is there a way to select from which microphone I want to record? The audio mixers (alsa mixer, gnome-mixer, etc.) show volume sliders for internal and external microphones. I have both at maximum volume (and unmuted).

Last edited by davvil (2009-01-24 22:16:36)

davvil

Member

Registered: 2008-05-06

Posts: 165

Re: [Solved] Microphone selection?

Man! The microphone I used was broken. I just tried with another one and everything works.