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#1 2009-02-10 15:00:38

FerBenzaa
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Registered: 2009-01-30
Posts: 32

Microphone does not work on Packard bell

I have an issue with my Packard Bell laptop.

The microphone does not work.
I have tried several distributions and no luck so far.
I have installed Ubuntu, fedora, PCLinux, and now Arch.

In all of them is the same problem, the mic doesnt work.

I got sound,
The video works great,
My wireless card work out of the box,

Everything is fine with Arch, i just miss the mic.

I want to use skype in Arch.
This is the only reason for keeping my Windows xp partition.

Any idea for the correction of this problem??

I have re-installed several times ALSA and that does not work.

Please, help!!!!

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#2 2009-02-10 15:32:44

antis
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From: sweden
Registered: 2007-05-18
Posts: 108

Re: Microphone does not work on Packard bell

Not the same make of computer and not really the same problem at all.... but on my laptop I couldn't get the mic to work either. When I eventually got some sound picked up it was so low that it was unusable.

So, I got rid of alsa and installed oss instead and it works heaps better. Maybe you could give that a try? For Skype to work though, you would need to install the skype-oss package.

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#3 2009-02-10 15:53:08

FerBenzaa
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Registered: 2009-01-30
Posts: 32

Re: Microphone does not work on Packard bell

I could try that,

My only issue is that ALSA is reproducing sound.

Actually, now im listening to Garbage with rhythmbox without any problem.

I feel that it has to do with the configuration,
but I have searched so many forums and all the solutions do not apply to my comp.

For example, in one forum i read that you can select the input for the mic. From mic1 to mic2.

In my conf file I dont find that option and on the GUI I dont get those options.

Weird stuff this is!!!

Last edited by FerBenzaa (2009-02-10 15:53:20)

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