Saturday, March 1, 2008

Microphone not working on Debian Etch

I use alsa driver for my sound card. Sound works perfectly. However, microphone did not work for me. I could finally got it working after little exercise. Here is what I did.

If you are using gnome, then open "gnome-volume-control".

$ gnome-volume-control &

Edit -> preference -> click on 'microphone' and 'capture'. Now make sure the microphone and capture switches are un-muted. Don't close this window and open gnome-sound-recorder.

$ gnome-sound-recorder &

Click on the record button and say something on the mic. You should be able to hear your voice once you play the recorded file. If everything goes well, then save the settings.

$ sudo alsactl store

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