[Alsa-user] Re: Microphone problems

[Devin V. <dve...@va...>]

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 23:35, Devin Venable wrote:
> I've been using ALSA for weeks now (line in/line out) with wonderful
> results.  For the first time, tonight, I tried out the microphone input
> but no signal was detected.  I used alsamixer to ensure the Mic input
> levels were up, not muted, and in record mode.  Mic boost is also
> enabled.  

For posterity, the answer was to tweak the microphone settings in
asound.state and then alsactl restore.  The default config produced did
not have suitable mic settings.

dv