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From: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] re: voice recording not clear
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 15:38:36
Message-Id: 53CBE357.6000203@gmail.com
1 Howdy,
2
3 I'm having trouble configuring my sound card so as to be able to record
4 voice as well as talk on Skype.
5
6 Whenever I try recording my voice using arecord, or do a Skype test
7 call, the audio output I get is static and squeaky.
8
9 I went through the instructions described here,
10 http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ALSA, and set things up where applicable as
11 best as I could tell.
12
13 Here's the details of my current setup:
14 Sound card:
15 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio
16 Controller (rev 02)
17 Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device a002
18 Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
19
20 ALSA packages installed:
21 media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.27.2
22 media-plugins/alsa-plugins-1.0.27-r1
23 media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.10.36
24 media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.27.2
25
26 cat .asoundrc
27 defaults.pcm.!card Intel
28 defaults.pcm.!device 0
29
30 What else am I missing here?
31
32 Thanks.

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Re: [gentoo-user] re: voice recording not clear Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>