Long story short: Laptop, sound card, microphone doesn't work. Windows - work.
Laptop: Compaq Evo N800V (four years old) FC6. Standard. Kernel - 2.6.20.4 - manually compiled. modules (courtesy of lsmod): snd_intel8x0 31644 4 snd_ac97_codec 89508 1 snd_intel8x0 ac97_bus 2560 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_seq_dummy 3972 0 snd_seq_oss 29312 0 snd_seq_midi_event 7296 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 45808 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 7948 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq snd_pcm_oss 39552 0 snd_mixer_oss 15616 3 snd_pcm_oss parport_pc 26020 1 snd_pcm 71172 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 21252 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm pcmcia_core 39716 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic snd 49668 13 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 7776 3 snd snd_page_alloc 9992 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm pcspkr 3328 0 playes with alsamixer. results: when microphone is on, switch: Microphone Capture, I hear from the speakers whatever I say into the mic. when it's off - nothing. Tried all combinations of Line-in capture, microphone capture, +20 db Boost, and IEC 958. Tried both mic1 and mic2 for inputs (surprisingly only mic1 works). No other sound device (especially not a mic). Permissions: /dev/dsp and /dev/snd/* were user.root and user.user, permission 600. none worked. anyone with some guess why this happens? google tells me a lot about two sound cards, but I have only one, and alsamixer does not solve the problem. Thanks! -- Orr Dunkelman, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that reason infallibly be faulty" -- Herman Melville, Moby Dick. Spammers: http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~orrd/spam.html GPG fingerprint: C2D5 C6D6 9A24 9A95 C5B3 2023 6CAB 4A7C B73F D0AA (This key will never sign Emails, only other PGP keys.)
