mmmh - seems strange.
I just tested, if it would work for me.
I used the following configuration:
sound card: Sounblaster Live! distro: SuSE 9.2 desktop: KDE sound system: salsa mixer: KMix
The mike is plugged into the pink input (that's the one with a small microphone pre-amp), blue is typically for line level input, and not strong enough for microphones.
In KMix I had to be sure of several things and they were not all set up by default:
In the "input" tab, there are red "lights" below each input channel's slider. They can be pressed to switch them on and off. However that didn't make much of a difference in my little test, although to be safe, one may want to have the red "light" under the mike slider set to be on.
The big difference were the green "lights" above the channel sliders. The seem to be offset slightly from their corresponding sliders, but they have small icons next to them. The "light" for the microphone input was off by default - pressing it turned it on (of it's off, the channel is muted). And it has to be on for the mike input to work.
What are you using as distro, desktop and mixing app?
...Niels
Jesse Kline wrote:
On Thu, 2005-03-02 at 20:06 -0700, Niels Voll wrote:
seems odd - how sure are you, that you're plugged into the Microphone input jack in your mobo? Plugging into the same jack as the TV card out, might suggest, that you are possibly using a "line in", which might not work for a mike. If you are convinced, that you are using the correct "Microphone in" jack, do another test: plug the output from your TV card into that jack (if it works it will probably be too loud and/or distorted). Just as a side question, what color code is the jack that you are using to plug the mike in? Most mobo based sound jacks are color coded.
...Niels
I played with it some more yesterday. My TV card plugs into the blue jack, and I have two mics so I plugged one into the pink jack and the other into the blue jack. I then played around with my mixer and tried every recording source with no luck. I also tried installing the Nvidia NForce audio drivers so that I could try their mixer, however I had a bunch of problems. If I enabled the ESD sound server when my desktop loads, then the desktop would not load at all. I also got a bunch of ALSA errors when I tried to startx. If I did not start ESD, then the desktop would load, but I would have no sound, and my mouse stopped working. I went back to using the ALSA drivers, but I'm still left with the same problem. Any ideas?
jesse
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