low volume on mic on Intel mobo

[Felipe Figueiredo]

I haven't been able to solve this problem, but I have figured a
workaround, so I'm posting as a sugestion for whoelse might run into
something similar.

If I change 'Input Source' in gnome mixer to 'Line', then back to
'Mic', capture works as expected. I know it's incredible, and I don't
like voodoo solutions, but this actually works.

regards
FF

On 5/28/07, Felipe Figueiredo <philsf79 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> my soundcard is the builtin in my Intel D945GTP motherboard, and I can't hear
> anything recorded with the microphone, except by maxing the output volume
> after the recording. Even then, it's fairly low, and this makes audio
> conferencing impossible (so that I must be mute, or get deaf after a couple
> of minutes of conversation).
>
> I experimented more than one microphone, and both the OSS-only version of
> Skype, and it's ALSA-enabled newer one. I also tried Krecord and audacity,
> all, with the same result.
>
> I am sure the mixer settings are right, all capture channels are unmuted, and
> maxed. Apparently the mobo chip is (not!) smart enough as to pull down a
> little the capture volume when it thinks it will get much noise, but even
> when I keep looking at
>
> Does anybody have a clue if this is solvable, if it's a hardware problem and I
> must get a proper (please, define 'proper') soundcard, or if there's some
> special configuration
>
> I'm not even sure of what information might be useful so you people can help
> me out, but attached is the result 'amixer -i'.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> FF
>
>