On Sunday 20 Jul 2014 16:42:15 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm having trouble configuring my sound card so as to be able to record > voice as well as talk on Skype. > > Whenever I try recording my voice using arecord, or do a Skype test > call, the audio output I get is static and squeaky. > > I went through the instructions described here, > http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ALSA, and set things up where applicable as > best as I could tell. > > Here's the details of my current setup: > Sound card: > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio > Controller (rev 02) > Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device a002 > Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel > > ALSA packages installed: > media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.27.2 > media-plugins/alsa-plugins-1.0.27-r1 > media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.10.36 > media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.27.2 > > cat .asoundrc > defaults.pcm.!card Intel > defaults.pcm.!device 0 > > What else am I missing here?
I don't have an .asoundrc file in my ~ for years now (I thought that it was deprecated for typical desktop use?). When I bought my last laptop I found that it had analogue and digital capture and I got good results after I switched off the analogue capture altogether. Also, I had to lower the volume of the digital capture to get best results. I did all this with alsamixer. The world is moving to pulseaudio and perhaps you want to give it a spin. It may offer a better interface for managing your audio - although in my case it doesn't because I don't use Gnome and don't want to install half of it just to manage my sound. HTH. -- Regards, Mick
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