Mumble does not get any input

[guido-pe]

Hi,

I am having trouble using mumble under Gentoo. I can start the program, but no matter what I set as "Device" or "System" (Pulseaudio or ALSA) under Settings->Audio Input, mumble never gets input. The input indicator bar doesn't move

I can use alsamixer to enable capture on the capture device, but this will directly forward all microphone input to the headphones, which I don't want. Mumble does get input in this case, though, if I configure it to use ALSA and the default ALSA card.

I have a CreativeLab X-Fi Titanium PCI-Express sound card with a connected headset. The basic hardware setup works fine under Windows. (So it cannot be the hardware's fault.)

These are the useflags I used when emerging mumble:

[Ant P.]

Check the "Recording" tab in the pavucontrol GUI, does it show input happening there?

[Leio]

For me pulseaudio doesn't seem to save my microphone level across reboots (same problem was with output, but that seems to have been saved by now at some level), so indeed, check it in your volume control; maybe the volume is all the way down (muted), so it is too silent to send anything (I move it up to some 75% to not overboost it). In GNOME3 when microphone is attached, it should just be one of the sliders in the top-right menu or under Sound in system settings
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