* Susan Cragin <[email protected]> [2018-12-02 07:49 -0500]: >
> (1) F6 does not do anything at all. It does not switch to another
> soundcard, or give me a list of them, even when I have a USB
> soundcard attached and there are clearly other working sound
> cards.
<F6> doesn't switch sound cards. You'll see a list of available
sound devices which you can "browse by hitting pageup/pagedown
buttons. To select one just hit <enter>.
> (2) My mouse stops working. It freezes where it is, and I have to
> reboot to correct the problem.
Well, alsamixer isn't designed to work with your mouse. You can
navigate with your keyboard. Thats it. To exit alsamixer just hit
<escape>.
> --another problem, possibly unrelated.
> I just added /etc/asound.conf to include this
> defaults.pcm.card 1
> defaults.pct.device 0
> so that my arecord would default to an external microphone:
> $ arecord -l
> **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
> card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC236 Analog [ALC236 Analog]
> Subdevices: 1/1
> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 1: Headset [Logitech USB Headset], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
> Subdevices: 1/1
> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> But alsamixer still opens to my internal sound system.
This is the default. You have to navigate by your keyboard to the
device you need. Check out <F3-6> ;)
> When I
> open Audacity, it defaults to the USB mic, so I think the
> asound.conf entry is correct.
Elimar
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