Microphone not working need some help...

[Larry Shields]

On 11/08/2011 10:05 AM, Frans Ketelaars wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:59:19 -0600, Larry Shields wrote:
>
>> *I have posted this a while back but never got any responses, hopefully
>> this time...
> Yup, if you didn't get a reply on the first try, you can try to repost it
> after some days, someone might have missed the earlier post or was too
> busy. An earlier post from you mentioned the error message when trying to
> start alsamixer, these error messages are great for a google search.
>
>> **I have a motherboard the ASUS M5a78L-M LX -by Asus the built-in sound
>> card it is a *Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel
>> HDA)...
>>
>> *Now I am having a problem in trying to get the mic working, the sound
>> is ok...
>> For some reason I no-longer can bring up the GUI ALSAMIXER showing the
>> bar levels, maybe it is because it is using pulseaudio I really do not
>> know...
>>
>> Does anyone know of another GUI that one can use to see or check if the
>> mic is muted or to see the graph when speaking into the mic...???
>>
>> Might anyone using Ubuntu's Lucid have the fix for this...???
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated...
>>
>> Thanks Larry
>> *
> Googling ->  "load mixer controls: Invalid argument" ubuntu lucid<- found
> among others these bugs:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-utils/+bug/613248 and
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/703464 .
>
> Googling just ->  "load mixer controls: Invalid argument"<- shows a lot
> of posts with "cannot load mixer controls: Invalid argument" as response
> to trying to start ALSAMIXER.
>
> Different solutions are posted, and some even work :)
>
> Good luck!
>
>      -Frans
>
>
*Well finally I went to this site 
*https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/InstallingLinuxAlsaDriverModules*installed what 
it had said then rebooted and I now have the sound & Microphone working...

Thanks to all that have responded back to me...

Larry
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