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mgnut57 Apprentice
Joined: 12 Jan 2008 Posts: 292
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Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 4:13 am Post subject: Cannot unmute microphone |
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I am trying to get a microphone working on my system, but, irrespective of what capture device I choose, I cannot unmute it. I can click the unmute button and close the volume control window, but whenever I go back, it is muted again. All of the capture devices behave like this.
I have pulseaudio on my system (with Gnome 2.32). I don't really know what info would be relevant, so please tell me what information to post. |
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audiodef Watchman
Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 6639 Location: The soundosphere
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mgnut57 Apprentice
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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audiodef wrote: | Have you tried using alsamixer in a terminal? Have you added alsasound to the default runlevel? |
I did not have alsasound in the default runlevel, but starting it made no difference.
I did run alsamixer and the capture volume looks OK.
However, I just tried to run "Sound Recorder" from the Applications -> Sound & Video menu and I get the following message:
Code: | Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them with the "Sound Preferences" under the System Preferences menu. |
but I don't have a "Sound Preferences" item anywhere in the menus. |
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comprookie2000 Retired Dev
Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 925 Location: Sun City Center, Florida
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 1:26 am Post subject: |
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Can you unmute it with pavucontrol?
$ pavucontrol
You may need to set it up for input on the Configuration tab and then unmute it on the input tab.
Is media-sound/pavucontrol installed? _________________ http://dev.gentoo.org/~dabbott/ |
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mgnut57 Apprentice
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 3:12 am Post subject: |
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comprookie2000 wrote: | Can you unmute it with pavucontrol?
$ pavucontrol
You may need to set it up for input on the Configuration tab and then unmute it on the input tab.
Is media-sound/pavucontrol installed? |
I installed pavucontrol and was able to see that it was working. The volume control app still shows the mic as muted, but things work. |
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syn0ptik Apprentice
Joined: 09 Jan 2013 Posts: 267
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 6:18 am Post subject: |
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you could unmute your mic in alsa-tools alsamixer, just press F5 and look whenever microphone volume changer. |
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