[NBLUG/talk] Microphones not working in Fedora 8

[Jack Smith]

On Jan 6, 2008 7:07 PM, William Tracy <afishionado at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> You can just hit the button in Audacity with a circle on it to start
> recording, blab into the microphone, then hit the stop button (marked
> with a square) to stop recording. You should see a new track with some
> sort of wave form appear in the window below the tool bar. If the wave
> is perfectly flat, you aren't getting anything from the microphone.
>
> Many distros like to have the microphone turned low by default, and
> don't always provide a graphical way to turn it up. If the mixer GUI
> is being unhelpful, go to the console and run:
>

OK, I finally found it.  There is a second tab in the alsamixer gui labeled
"Switches".  If you look inside it has a box you can check for "Mic Front
Input".  Once I check it, my plugin mike works fine for both Audacity and
Ekiga.  I still can't use the microphone that's part of the webcam, even
though it's one of the choices, and works if plugged into my middle
daughter's Windows (shudder) laptop.


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>
> BTW, how do you like working with Ekiga? I started using Skype before
> I really looked into the available SIP services.
>

I don't really know yet.  :-)  I tried setting up Skype years ago and
couldn't make it work.  Up until now I only used Ekiga for calls to my
oldest daughter's phone in Japan.  Yesterday her fiance got Ekiga compatible
software working on her Mac (she's been Skype) so we have yet to find out
how good it is.



-- 
Jack Smith

English doesn't borrow from other languages -- English follows other
languages down dark alleys and takes what it wants.
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