<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Waleed Hamra <<a href="mailto:kubuntu-users@whamra.com">kubuntu-users@whamra.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> On 05/18/2011 10:37 AM, <a href="mailto:tv.debian@googlemail.com">tv.debian@googlemail.com</a> 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.</blockquote><div> 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.</div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> </blockquote></div> -- Sláinte, Richard S. Crawford (<a href="mailto:richard@underpope.com" target="_blank">richard@underpope.com</a>) <a href="http://www.underpope.com" target="_blank">http://www.underpope.com</a>