microphone not working on toshiba

hello everyone,

i used to be a fan of ubuntu but as soon as i saw opensuse, i had to change!! really nice!
I only have one problem, pc is configured completly but my mic doesn t work at all. It already used to not work in ubuntu, but still works great on windows so i don t think it s a hardware pb.

the mic is not on mute, output is working just fine.

thank you guys for trying to help.

by the way, the laptop is a toshiba dynabook tx/860LS brought in Japan few years ago. hope this is not the problem :s

aldo

i can give you a few information i found with command line:

uname -a :
Linux linux-v9zq 2.6.31.12-0.2-default #1 SMP 2010-03-16 21:25:39 +0100 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

rpm -qa ‘alsa’ :
alsa-oss-1.0.17-25.2.i586
alsa-utils-1.0.21-3.1.i586
alsa-1.0.21-3.2.i586
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.21-3.3.i586
alsa-plugins-1.0.21-3.3.i586

rpm -qa ‘pulse’ :
pulseaudio-lang-0.9.21-1.2.1.noarch
pulseaudio-module-zeroconf-0.9.21-1.2.1.i586
libpulse0-0.9.21-1.2.1.i586
libpulse-browse0-0.9.21-1.2.1.i586
pulseaudio-utils-0.9.21-1.2.1.i586
pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.21-1.2.1.i586
libpulse-mainloop-glib0-0.9.21-1.2.1.i586
pulseaudio-0.9.21-1.2.1.i586
pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.21-1.2.1.i586
pulseaudio-module-lirc-0.9.21-1.2.1.i586
pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.21-1.2.1.i586
alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.21-3.3.i586
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-0.9.21-1.2.1.i586

rpm -q libasound2
libasound2-1.0.21-3.2.i586

aldomaccione WELCOME to openSUSE and WELCOME to openSUSE forums.

First, is this the INTERNAL mic in the laptop ? Or is it an external mic you plugged in a jack on the laptop ?

Thankyou for the information you provided. I am not familiar with the toshiba dynabook tx/860LS . Please can you provide some additional information?

Please configure your mixer exactly the way you think it should be configured for your mic to work.

Note when testing your mic, I recommend you use a terminal with this command:

  arecord -vv -fdat foo.wav

“foo.wav” is an arbitrary name I made up. Instead you could call it mytoshiba.wav or thewindblows.wav or anything …

Then assuming mic does not work, please with your computer connected to the internet type:

/usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh

and select the SHARE/UPLOAD option. That should upload a diagnostic output of your PCs audio hardware/software configuration to the internet, and give you a URL. Please pass the URL here. Just the URL.

If for some reason that does not give you a URL then run it with the no upload option this way:

/usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh --no-upload

and that will create the file /tmp/alsa-info.txt. Open that file with a text editor and paste it here: New - Pastie and press paste and post here the URL it provides.

That will provide more information that can help in figuring out your problem.