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leonardof

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Registered: 2008-09-05

Posts: 66

Can't unmute mic

I have trouble unmuting my microphones. I can play sound just fine, but even unmuting and setting volumes to 100% I can't record anything on my mic. One strange thing I noticed is that, if i use alsamixer, I see microphone is unmuted, but if I use GNOME's sound mixer, I unmute the mic, and after openning the mixer again I see the all capture is muted. Anyone has any idea on what could be wrong? I have a ICH10 sound chip, HDA intel.

folletto

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From: Poland

Registered: 2009-03-31

Posts: 26

Re: Can't unmute mic

This is somehow similar, maybe it can help: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=76472

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leonardof

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Registered: 2008-09-05

Posts: 66

Re: Can't unmute mic

Thank you folletto, but that thread doesn't apply to my. I do get a Mic Tab, but it doesn't work properly.

If, by any chance, I do need to specify to sound card model at modprobe.conf, how to I find out the right model name for my sound card?

SoleSoul

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From: Israel

Registered: 2009-06-29

Posts: 319

Re: Can't unmute mic

In alsamixer, did you try to press space while the mic is selected?
Caused me  some headache to find this out.

leonardof

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Registered: 2008-09-05

Posts: 66

Re: Can't unmute mic

SoleSoul, I tried what you said and the only effect was turning the "capture" labels in series of dashes. But I still get my error: every time I open the GNOME Volume Control, all capture channels are muted.

frodoontop

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2004-05-18

Posts: 37

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Re: Can't unmute mic

The idea of pressing the spacebar in alsamixer to enable the left and right channel is wonderfull. I can finally hear myself, can't get enough of it This "feature" of alsa is well hidden if you ask me.

leonardof

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Registered: 2008-09-05

Posts: 66

Re: Can't unmute mic

This problem wasn't resolved with the release of kernel 2.6.33