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On 07/20/2014 07:33 PM, Mick wrote: |
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> On Sunday 20 Jul 2014 16:42:15 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: |
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>> Howdy, |
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>> |
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>> I'm having trouble configuring my sound card so as to be able to record |
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>> voice as well as talk on Skype. |
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>> |
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>> Whenever I try recording my voice using arecord, or do a Skype test |
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>> call, the audio output I get is static and squeaky. |
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>> |
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>> I went through the instructions described here, |
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>> http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ALSA, and set things up where applicable as |
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>> best as I could tell. |
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>> |
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>> Here's the details of my current setup: |
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>> Sound card: |
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>> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio |
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>> Controller (rev 02) |
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>> Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device a002 |
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>> Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel |
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>> |
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>> ALSA packages installed: |
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>> media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.27.2 |
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>> media-plugins/alsa-plugins-1.0.27-r1 |
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>> media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.10.36 |
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>> media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.27.2 |
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>> |
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>> cat .asoundrc |
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>> defaults.pcm.!card Intel |
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>> defaults.pcm.!device 0 |
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>> |
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>> What else am I missing here? |
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> I don't have an .asoundrc file in my ~ for years now (I thought that it was |
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> deprecated for typical desktop use?). |
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> |
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> When I bought my last laptop I found that it had analogue and digital capture |
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> and I got good results after I switched off the analogue capture altogether. |
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> Also, I had to lower the volume of the digital capture to get best results. I |
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> did all this with alsamixer. |
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> |
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> The world is moving to pulseaudio and perhaps you want to give it a spin. It |
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> may offer a better interface for managing your audio - although in my case it |
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> doesn't because I don't use Gnome and don't want to install half of it just to |
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> manage my sound. |
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> |
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> HTH. |
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Thanks. I might look into the pulseaudio side of things. |
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