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**fidesratioque** · May 31, 2009, 06:36 AM

Re: Microphone (still) not working under 9.04

I've been trying to use Meebo. I get to the point where Meebo detects the microphone but when I try to speak into it, it does not register any input. So, I'll be following this thread... Not sure if the problem is similar, though, or even how to diagnose it.

**pookito** · Jun 02, 2009, 06:30 AM

Microphone (still) not working under 9.04

I know this answer might sound silly, but have you tried on setting putting everything on pulseradio? I had the same problem and it worked. I have not been able to get the mic from the headset to work under gnome but under KDE it does work.

g. · Jun 06, 2009, 03:41 AM

Re: Microphone (still) not working under 9.04

thanks, from system settings, however, I can select pulse audio as "Audio Output" device (which works) but not for the "audio capture" item.

I have "System settings" -> "Multimedia" -> "Audio Capture" and here only "Monitor of HDA Intel" and "HDA Intel"

when shutting down my laptop the following message now appears with a colored star:

Pulse-Audio configured for per-user session

i'm not sure it is related, however.

best
g.

**volkerbradley** · Jun 06, 2009, 04:26 AM

Re: Microphone (still) not working under 9.04

To learn about PulseAudio and its relationship to ALSA, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PulseAudio
Since we will continue to see PulseAudio in Kubuntu, why not learn how to use iPulseAudio once and for all rather than disabling it?
If you look in this forum at the topic "how to fix pulseaudio?", you will see my post about how I got PulseAudio working and how to chose the microphone with PulseAudio.
Let me know if this works for you.

g. · Jun 06, 2009, 09:28 AM

Re: Microphone (still) not working under 9.04

thanks for your suggestion.

i read some more insight on pulseaudio and alsa.

my audio output is working fine since when i modified the /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf file.

the microphone still is not working. I tried to use the commands pactl and pacmd as indicated in the post you suggested but it did not work.

I'm playing around with padevchooser but, again, no success...

it is frustrating that the same hardware worked under 8.10...

thanks
g.

**volkerbradley** · Jun 06, 2009, 09:54 AM

Re: Microphone (still) not working under 9.04

Hmm. Is this a new install or an upgrade?
Is the microphone connected to the sound card or is it part of a USB headset?
Did you install all the software as suggested in the other post and did you enable the groups for root and for yourself and then reboot?
Can you post the output your pactl list
Can you also give us the the command you gave pacmd? What was your set-default-source command?
One time I had this trouble when a Kubuntu install broke my sound card. Are you sure that this soundcard and microphone work in MSWindows?
I'm sure that there is a solution to this little problem.

g. · Jun 06, 2009, 10:17 AM

Re: Microphone (still) not working under 9.04

thanks for your interest.

well, I installed kubuntu 8.10 on a new precision m2400 machine and all was perfect, I then updated to 9.04 and a lot of different problems arise. there is a single boot and the microphone is embed, so no way to test it under windows. external microphone, however, do not work (output also, in this case but i guess it is simply not automatically switching to the headset).

the microphone is embed with the webcam and worked perfectly under 8.10.

to be honest i did not install *all* the software listed in your post but just verified that I had the following command, could it be *the* problem? I'll try.

yes, the 3 pulse-related groups are enabled for my login.

thanks in advace, below the result of some commands:

Code:

pactl list                                        
*** Module #0 ***                                              
Name: module-gconf                                              
Argument:                                                  
Usage counter: n/a                                              
Auto unload: no                                               

*** Module #1 ***
Name: module-suspend-on-idle
Argument:          
Usage counter: n/a     
Auto unload: no       

*** Module #2 ***
Name: module-device-restore
Argument:         
Usage counter: n/a     
Auto unload: no      

*** Module #3 ***
Name: module-stream-restore
Argument:         
Usage counter: n/a     
Auto unload: no      

*** Module #4 ***
Name: module-alsa-sink
Argument: device_id=0 sink_name=alsa_output.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0 tsched=0
Usage counter: n/a                                       
Auto unload: no                                        

*** Module #5 ***
Name: module-alsa-source
Argument: device_id=0 source_name=alsa_input.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_capture_0 tsched=0
Usage counter: n/a                                       
Auto unload: no                                        

*** Module #6 ***
Name: module-hal-detect
Argument: tsched=0   
Usage counter: n/a   
Auto unload: no    

*** Module #7 ***
Name: module-esound-protocol-unix
Argument:            
Usage counter: n/a        
Auto unload: no         

*** Module #8 ***
Name: module-native-protocol-unix
Argument:            
Usage counter: n/a        
Auto unload: no         

*** Module #9 ***
Name: module-default-device-restore
Argument:             
Usage counter: n/a         
Auto unload: no          

*** Module #10 ***
Name: module-rescue-streams
Argument:         
Usage counter: n/a     
Auto unload: no      

*** Module #11 ***
Name: module-always-sink
Argument:        
Usage counter: n/a   
Auto unload: no     

*** Module #12 ***
Name: module-console-kit
Argument:        
Usage counter: n/a   
Auto unload: no     

*** Module #13 ***
Name: module-position-event-sounds
Argument:             
Usage counter: n/a        
Auto unload: no          

*** Sink #0 ***
Name: alsa_output.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0
Driver: modules/module-alsa-sink.c             
Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz           
Channel Map: front-left,front-right             
Owner Module: 4                       
Volume: 0: 78% 1: 78%                   
Monitor Source: alsa_output.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0.monitor
Latency: 77591 usec, configured 81269 usec                  
Flags: HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY      
Properties:                                  
device.api = "alsa"                              
device.class = "sound"                            
alsa.class = "generic"                            
alsa.subclass = "generic-mix"                         
alsa.name = "STAC92xx Analog"                         
alsa.id = "STAC92xx Analog"                          
alsa.subdevice = "0"                             
alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0"                     
alsa.device = "0"                               
alsa.card = "0"                                
alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel"                         
alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel at 0xf6fdc000 irq 2296"           
device.description = "HDA Intel - STAC92xx Analog"              
device.string = "front:0"                           
device.buffering.buffer_size = "14336"                    
device.buffering.fragment_size = "1792"                    
device.access_mode = "mmap"                          

*** Source #0 ***
Name: alsa_output.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0.monitor
Driver: modules/module-alsa-sink.c                 
Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz               
Channel Map: front-left,front-right                 
Owner Module: 4                           
Volume: 0: 100% 1: 100%                       
Monitor of Sink: alsa_output.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0
Latency: 0 usec, configured 0 usec                   
Flags: DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY                     
Properties:                              
device.description = "Monitor of HDA Intel - STAC92xx Analog"     
device.class = "monitor"                        

*** Source #1 ***
Name: alsa_input.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_capture_0
Driver: modules/module-alsa-source.c           
Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz          
Channel Map: front-left,front-right            
Owner Module: 5                      
Volume: 0: 100% 1: 100%                  
Monitor of Sink: n/a                   
Latency: 0 usec, configured 0 usec            
Flags: HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY 
Properties:                            
device.api = "alsa"                        
device.class = "sound"                       
alsa.class = "generic"                       
alsa.subclass = "generic-mix"                   
alsa.name = "STAC92xx Analog"                   
alsa.id = "STAC92xx Analog"                    
alsa.subdevice = "0"                        
alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0"                
alsa.device = "0"                         
alsa.card = "0"                          
alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel"                    
alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel at 0xf6fdc000 irq 2296"      
device.description = "HDA Intel - STAC92xx Analog"         
device.string = "front:0"                     
device.buffering.buffer_size = "14336"               
device.buffering.fragment_size = "1792"              
device.access_mode = "mmap"                    

*** Sink Input #46 ***
Driver: pulsecore/protocol-native.c
Owner Module: 8          
Client: 5988            
Sink: 0              
Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
Channel Map: front-left,front-right  
Volume: 0: 100% 1: 100%        
Buffer Latency: 465170 usec      
Sink Latency: 80332 usec        
Resample method: src-linear      
Properties:              
media.name = "ALSA Playback"      
application.name = "ALSA plug-in [firefox]"
native-protocol.peer = "UNIX socket client"
native-protocol.version = "14"       
application.process.id = "4660"      
application.process.user = "gianluca"   
application.process.host = "trinity"    
application.process.binary = "firefox"   
application.language = "en_US.UTF-8"    

*** Client #0 ***
Driver: modules/module-console-kit.c
Owner Module: n/a          
Properties:             
application.name = "ConsoleKit Session /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session2"
console-kit.session = "/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session2"        

*** Client #5988 ***
Driver: pulsecore/protocol-native.c
Owner Module: 8
Properties:
application.name = "ALSA plug-in [firefox]"
native-protocol.peer = "UNIX socket client"
native-protocol.version = "14"
application.process.id = "4660"
application.process.user = "gianluca"
application.process.host = "trinity"
application.process.binary = "firefox"
application.language = "en_US.UTF-8"

*** Client #5989 ***
Driver: pulsecore/protocol-native.c
Owner Module: 8
Properties:
application.name = "pactl"
native-protocol.peer = "UNIX socket client"
native-protocol.version = "14"
application.process.id = "16966"
application.process.user = "gianluca"
application.process.host = "trinity"
application.process.binary = "pactl"
application.language = "en_US.UTF-8"

Code:

pacmd
Welcome to PulseAudio! Use "help" for usage information.

within pacmd i run

Code:

>>> list-sources                                             
2 source(s) available.                                          
  index: 0                                               
    name: <alsa_output.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0.monitor>              
    driver: <modules/module-alsa-sink.c>                               
    flags: DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY                                  
    state: SUSPENDED                                         
    volume: 0: 100% 1: 100%                                     
    muted: no                                            
    current latency: 0.00 ms                                     
    configured latency: 0.00 ms; range is 81.27 .. 81.27 ms                     
    max rewind: 0 KiB                                        
    sample spec: s16le 2ch 44100Hz                                  
    channel map: front-left,front-right                               
    used by: 0                                            
    linked by: 0                                           
    monitor_of: 0                                          
    module: 4                                            
    properties:                                           
device.description = "Monitor of HDA Intel - STAC92xx Analog"                      
device.class = "monitor"                                         
 * index: 1                                               
    name: <alsa_input.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_capture_0>                   
    driver: <modules/module-alsa-source.c>                              
    flags: HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY                
    state: SUSPENDED                                         
    volume: 0: 100% 1: 100%                                     
    muted: no                                            
    current latency: 0.00 ms                                     
    configured latency: 0.00 ms; range is 81.27 .. 81.27 ms                     
    max rewind: 0 KiB
    sample spec: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
    channel map: front-left,front-right
    used by: 0
    linked by: 0
    module: 5
    properties:
device.api = "alsa"
device.class = "sound"
alsa.class = "generic"
alsa.subclass = "generic-mix"
alsa.name = "STAC92xx Analog"
alsa.id = "STAC92xx Analog"
alsa.subdevice = "0"
alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0"
alsa.device = "0"
alsa.card = "0"
alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel"
alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel at 0xf6fdc000 irq 2296"
device.description = "HDA Intel - STAC92xx Analog"
device.string = "front:0"
device.buffering.buffer_size = "14336"
device.buffering.fragment_size = "1792"
device.access_mode = "mmap"

**volkerbradley** · Jun 06, 2009, 11:19 AM

Re: Microphone (still) not working under 9.04

Pardon me for asking. After you installed all the packages mentioned in the previous post, in pacmd please run:
set-default-source alsa_input.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_capture _0
Also, what application are you using to test the microphone? After you have given the above command, can you install Audacity and try the microphone?
Let us know what happens

g. · Jun 06, 2009, 12:17 PM

Re: Microphone (still) not working under 9.04

well, I just installed all the packages you suggest in your other post except for

lib32asound2-plugins since it wants to remove

ia32-libs
skype

and gnome-alsamixer, do I need it? I have alsamixergui already installed.

audacity does not show the "record" button, up to know i used skype to test the microphone but now skype is mute...

audacity and amarok works well)

best
g.

**GreyGeek** · Jun 06, 2009, 01:19 PM

Re: Microphone (still) not working under 9.04

Open the KMixer window.
CLick on the menu item "Settings", then on "Configure channels".
Check the boxes in front of "Front Mic" and "Front Mic Boot", if they are there.
Then run their slider up enough so that Audacity (the sound recording app) can record a good sound without overdriving the waveform.

If your mixer channel settings do not show "Front Mic" or "Front Mic Boost" then you have a hardware recognition problems. BTW, I have the ICH9 audio chip in my Sony VAIO and it works great. Even gives me voice in Second Life!

**volkerbradley** · Jun 06, 2009, 01:21 PM

Re: Microphone (still) not working under 9.04

Pardon me for asking again:
In pacmd did you run:
set-default-source alsa_input.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_capture _0
I have included a screenshot of Audacity on my computer. Does yours look different? Are you missing this button?

Attached Files

g. · Jun 06, 2009, 03:59 PM

Re: Microphone (still) not working under 9.04

thanks greygeek and volkerbradley.

- I miss the boot option, in Kmix I never had this option;

- yes I run the proper set-default-source command in pacmd;

- yes I miss the record button (the one you highlighted) even if my Audacity has different skins with respect to your (ver 1.5.1);

- now skype does not reproduce any sound;

- the shutdown procedure hangs...

again, any help is appreciated. how can I check what exactly hanged last two shutdown commands?

thanks
g.

**volkerbradley** · Jun 06, 2009, 04:04 PM

Re: Microphone (still) not working under 9.04

did you try to see what happened with the dmesg command?

**GreyGeek** · Jun 06, 2009, 06:17 PM

Re: Microphone (still) not working under 9.04

Every device preference setting in my System Settings Multimedia "Sound and Video Configuration" setting has "HDA Intel (ALC262 Analog)" in the top position for all "Audio Output" settings and for all "Audio Capture" settings.

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