I'm still trying to get the microphone on my Thinkpad T21 to be picked up by recording apps (e.g. Audacity).
I've installed Dapper Drake (Flight 5) and have the same symptoms I had with Debian Sarge. The mic works fine. I can hear sound from the mic through the laptop loudspeakers and headphones. I can control the volume of the mic and mute/un-mute it using the Gnome Volume Control app. I see in the Volume Control under "Capture" that I can enable/disable the mic for recording. I have the microphone volume set to a reasonable level (I can hear it through the speakers, but no feedback howl). I have both the mute/un-mute and audio capture buttons such that the little red x is *not* showing. ... but if I run Audacity and hit the record button, none of the sound I can hear coming to the speakers from the mic is recorded. I end up with a recording of silence. This must be some stupid config thing I'm missing. It works fine under Knoppix 4, so it is possible to get Audacity to record if things are set up right ... but what is "right" and how can I figure out what the problem is with the configuration under Dapper? Any suggestions? Please? -- Make the most of your skills - with OpenSkills http://www.openskills.org/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
