Re: [Alsa-user] Can't record my microphone

[Lee R. <rlr...@jo...>]

On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 21:09 +0200, conrad berhörster Hello mmmmmmmm
wrote:
> hello lee, 
> Hmmm, just to be more concrete:
> what is the numid standing for: what kind of id is this, ALSA, card, mixer. 
> and is _every_ MultiIO card had to show this details? 
> 

These are ALSA internal, don't worry about them.  They are just used to
save and restore mixer state.

amixer was not intended to be user friendly, it's for debugging, and to
allow mixer control from the command line.

> Am Freitag, 28. Oktober 2005 20:45 schrieb Lee Revell:
> > On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 19:40 +0200, conrad berhörster wrote:
> > > Hello
> > > can anyone explain this enties in generell or is there a documentation.
> > > ??
> >
> > Um, it's pretty much self explanatory.  In order to capture from the
> > mic, you need to go to the "Capture" section of your mixer app and
> > unmute the "Mic" control and raise it's volume.  Exactly the same as on
> > Windows or MacOS.
> well, not exactly the same. In windows, i have a slider and a mute check box. 
> B)) 
> sizu c~
> 

If you use the Gnome (preferably 2.12, which limits the view to a
standard subset of controls by default) or KDE mixer or alsamixer then
you have a slider and check box too.  Although, the Gnome 2.12 mixer on
my Ubuntu Breezy system seems to have a bug - with my Audigy2 ZS I don't
have a "Capture" tab, and all the Capture controls appear on the
playback tab.

Lee