mic headphones problem

Rick Knight rick_knight at rlknight.com
Wed Mar 19 21:27:06 UTC 2008


Jon Grant wrote:
> Karl, Rick,
>
> thanks for the reply!
>
>   
>>     OK. Now I understand. Well an earphone is also a magnetic mike and
>>  will work fine. But the way it sounds is the Dell Laptop has mis-wired
>>  the mike plug.
>>     
>
> yep, that is what I thought.. but it worked on the Dell Laptop with
> MS-Windows.. so I wiped the drive and installed Kubuntu and it
> doesn't.. so the hw must be good!
>
> Rick: Any idea where I can set the 20db gain in the mixer you mentioned?
>
> I am looking at the KMix, on the "Input" tab and have three sliders,
> but all are already at the top.
>
> Kind regards, and thanks for the help
> Jon
>
>   

On KDE in Kmix. The third tab is Switches. You'll find the 20db boost 
there. Not sure in Gnome, but it should be somewhere similar.

Rick




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