Microphone won't work

[Santiago Erquicia]

I think I had a problem similar to this. Try this ....

Open a terminal and run alsamixer
Press TAB
Go to the mic control and see if it says CAPTURE or something like
that. If it doesn't, press SPACE.
quit and see if it works

On 5/8/06, Dave M G <martin at autotelic.com> wrote:
> Ubuntu Users,
>
> I'm using Dapper 6.06. I'm a newbie with Linux. I know Dapper is a beta
> or alpha release, but I installed it without realizing that, and having
> worked with it as long as I have, it seems I'm in too deep to consider
> getting out now.
>
> I'm having the following problem with my microphone: it doesn't work.
> The sound card outputs sound beautifully. I just can't get any input.
>
> I've made sure to un-mute the microphone in the window that comes up by
> double clicking the speaker icon in the top-right of the screen.
>
> I've selected to ensure that ALSA is installed via Synaptic, and I
> downloaded ALSA-tools and a few other ALSA related applications for good
> measure. To be honest, I don't entirely know what ALSA is, beyond that
> is a sound manager of some kind.
>
> And then I ran the command "amixer" at the command prompt, and opened a
> can of worms:
> dave at homebase:~$ amixer
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:1107:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition
> 'defaults.ctl.card'
> ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer
> returned error: No such file or directory
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:242:(snd_func_getenv) error evaluating default
> ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_getenv
> returned error: No such file or directory
> ALSA lib conf.c:3962:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or
> directory
> ALSA lib control.c:817:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL default
> amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory
>
> My gut instinct is that these errors need to be resolved before I can
> have any hope of getting the mike to work.
>
> Any advice would be much appreciated.
>
> Thank you.
>
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> Dave M G
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