I can hear myself through the speakers. I did a “arecord -d 5 test.wav” and played it back through dolphin, didn’t hear anything. I have the mixer channel for mic, mic boost and capture up 75% and can adjust input levels which I hear in the speakers. I also have capture channel enabled. I tried using krecord and seems like I can’t record any voice there. Whats my next step?
Bigger mystery, some how the voice tests works with Skype now as it didn’t in the first post. I think all I did was start alsamixer from the command line. Than the voice test was getting grabled noise. I backed down the mic boost to zero and it sounds very good. But I really would like to know what got “fixed” to make the voice test work. (Still haven’t talked to a real person on Skype today from the Linux box".
Another question here: Would you please tell me which devices you have enabled in KMIX to let it work properly? Thanks.
>(Still haven’t talked to a real person on Skype
try adding echo123 and giving her a call (it is a Skype test line)
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goldie
Realistically, you are probably the only person who can provide that information as to what you “fixed”.
Still, in case you have basic mic problems in the future, I recently updated the openSUSE audio troubleshooting guide putting a very small (and very preliminary) section on a Mic here:
SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE - configuring the microphone
where in essence it simply refers one to here:
Microphone - openSUSE
and I also updated that microphone wiki, providing advice to try this:
arecord -vv -fdat foo.wav
and then play with one’s mixer settings.
Glad to read you are making some sort of progress. I do NOT use Skype so I can not help users with that.