Microphone Problem (solved)

[Waleed Hamra]

On 05/19/2011 01:35 AM, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Waleed Hamra <kubuntu-users at whamra.com>wrote:
> 
>> On 05/18/2011 10:37 AM, tv.debian at googlemail.com wrote:
>>> 18/05/2011 06:18, O. Sinclair wrote:
>>>> On 18/05/2011 03:53, Waleed Hamra wrote:
>>>>> i'm having a very weird problem.
>>>>> i have never thought of using my microphone before, but this week, i
>>>>> decided to give it a try.
>>>>> after some fiddling with alsamixer, i managed to see what controls i
>>>>> need to control its volume, and what levels are acceptable between high
>>>>> enough volume, and not too high to cause nasty feedback loops. so
>>>>> basically, now when i speak into the microphone, i hear my sound coming
>>>>> from the speakers. i thought all is fine... but alas... no
>>>>> NONE of the programs i tried managed to detect the faintest of sounds.
>>>>> i tried skype, i tried audacity, i tried arecorder, even ran virtualbox
>>>>> and checked Windows' sound recorder, nothing, they all hear nothing,
>>>>> yet... i am hearing myself during all the tests, on the speakers...
>> this
>>>>> is really really confusing.
>>>>> anyone has any ideas?
>>>>>
>>>> Try installing either pavucontrol or the veromix plasmoid and then play
>>>> around with input channels. The Pulseaudio system is not yet well
>>>> supported in KMix but depending on version is default in Kubuntu. I like
>>>> veromix as it is "native kde" and can sit in the systray. I have
>>>> basically replaced KMIx with Veromix.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Or... ditch pulseaudio. I had endless problems after the natty upgrade,
>>> I removed pulseaudio, paid a visit to systemsettings "multimedia"
>>> settings, and sound started to work again (with phonon gstreamer
>> backend).
>>>
>>
>> no pulseaudio here :) i ditched it long ago.
> 
> 
> I admit that I'm baffled as to why PulseAudio continues to be shipped with
> Kubuntu. It's never caused me anything but grief, and I always have to
> remove it before I can get sound working on my system.
> 
>>

hello everyone, yesterday i upgraded to Natty, and my microphone worked
out of the box... it's working in skype, in audacity, everywhere.. :D


-- 
Waleed K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems

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