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Hi, |
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Ah, for a peaceful Saturday, but I guess not this one... I'm just |
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starting to investigate this but maybe someone's worked on this sort |
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of thing recently? |
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The bottom line is that my mic for conferencing is working, in the |
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sense that with headphones on I can raise the either the 'Front Mic' |
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or 'Front Mic Boost' sliders in the KDE mixer and I hear myself |
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speaking. However none of the applications I use the mic with - either |
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Skype or VirtualBox VMs - are receiving any audio. My main method of |
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testing the mic is the little app in Skype where you make a test call |
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and then it plays it back for you. I do love that sweet sounding |
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English girl who talks to me but I don't hear what I recorded. |
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I haven't used the mic in 2 weeks so I only know it was working 2 |
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Saturday's ago. (We didn't have a conference call last Saturday |
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morning.) The kernel was updated from 3.2.1 to 3.2.12 on April 15th, |
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so that's changed since the mix worked. It seems that |
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/var/lib/alsa/asound.state changed as recently as yesterday. (April |
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20th) |
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The machine is Gentoo (mostly) stable, and has been since it was |
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built 2 years ago, and is updated nearly every day so anything that |
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changed in the last 2 weeks is a possible candidate for root cause. |
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All other aspect of Alsa are basically working. Everything can play |
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audio. KDE system sounds work. VMs can stream NetFlix, etc. The only |
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thing not working at the app level is the mic. |
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Any ideas where to look? |
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I've not rebooted yet on the off chance this is a one-off hardware |
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problem. I have restarted Alsa but it didn't fix anything. If the |
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reboot doesn't work I'll try dropping back to the previous kernel. |
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In the old days you would sometimes delete asound.state and let |
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Alsa recreate it when you had problems with a new version of Alsa. |
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Anyone know if that's still recommended? |
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Thanks in advance, |
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Mark |