Hallo, everybody! Recently I successfully found a way to get my microphone working under KDE, but I decided to switch to Gnome. Unfortunately, the way for KDE doesn’t go at all. I really have no clues what I can do about it. I have one internal microphone and one input jeck for external microphone. The sound card is Intel HD Audio. A toshiba sattelite A200-10D Laptop.
If anybody can help, please help.
What method did you use for it to work in KDE?
Cryovac, antRom managed to get his mic working under KDE per this thread:
Configuring Microphone - openSUSE Forums
… after switching to Gnome, he decided not to provide the script output, nor the rpm command output listing alsa, pulse, libasound2, and kernel versions (despite my efforts to tactfully suggest he do so), for a reason I can not understand. I guess he figures Gnome users will immediately know a solution with no details?
I’m not a Gnome user, so I’m going to leave this and the other thread, as I think further effort on my part would be counter productive. I can’t help a user with inadequate information.
Best of luck in your efforts!
Hallo, thanks for reaction.
Yes, It was really good note of oldcpu to put a link to the previous discussion.
In summary, what really worked was a change in the sound configuration file /etc/modprobe.d/sound, namely a string like
options snd_hda_intel model=toshiba
solved that problem completely.
I didn’t excpect any differance ensuing another desktop.
Just if it could be of use, another tsalsa produced in gnome showed in fact different output… tsalsa.txt - nopaste.com (beta)
I note this from the tsalsa script output summary for your mixer:
Amixer item options for card 0 [Intel] _________________________________
‘Input Source’ ; Item #0 ‘Mic’ ; Item #1 ‘Front Mic’ : values=0
‘Input Source’,index=1 ; Item #0 ‘Mic’ ; Item #1 ‘Front Mic’
Amixer contents for card 0 [Intel] _____________________________________
amixer set ‘Front Mic Boost’,0 100% 100%
amixer set ‘Mic Boost’,0 100% 100%
amixer set ‘Capture’,0 Capture 14 45%,Capture 14 45% on
amixer set ‘Capture’,1 Capture 1 3%,Capture 1 3% on
amixer set ‘Input Source’,0 Items: ‘Mic’ ‘Front Mic’ Item0: ‘Mic’
amixer set ‘Input Source’,1 Items: ‘Mic’ ‘Front Mic’ Item0: ‘Mic’
You have your input source (0 and 1) set to Mic (which I believe is an external mic ? ) and not to an internal mic (which I believe is Front Mic). You also have the capture for both of your mic’s set very low. One at 45% and one at 3%. That could be your problem.
Well, this thread is stopped, as I decided to switch back to KDE.
As for the settings for microphone, I tried to configure input source, but in fact, though tsalsa lists all the channels, amixer from terminal listed only 2 chanels and alsa scontrols and scontent commands as well as content command listed 2 items to configure. So provided that I wished very much to configure, I didn’t understand how to act in that case =).
Anyway thread stopped, as I can no longer test any suggestions.