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Hi ZK,
I thought I let you know that my headphone and microphone are not working under 23.0. (HP laptop 6730b)
I have pushed and slide every button in the Qasmixer and alsamixer you can think of, but no result.
Headphone worked fine in 22.3. Simply had to plug it in.
Have a webcam (Ewent 1089) with microphone, webcam works but the microphone doesn't.
So, there are actually two isseus, but they may be related.
I have a HDA Intel soundcard, no idea which version, though.
Tried to solve it under Similar Threads but didn't got any wiser.
I did my best!
The possibilities are:
1) Your headphones are broken. Check this.
2) It's an application problem. For example, you have sound in Firefox, but no sound in Skype. Is this so ?
3) Your headphone (or front, or something else) is muted. Use blue circles (below the slide bars) in QasMixer to unmute. Alternatively, press "m" to mute/unmute in AlsaMixer.
Hi,
and excuse me for not responding earlier,
Pat Metheny and his band gave a gig in Utrecht last night which I attended.
Anyway:
1) Headphones were allready checked and are fine.
2) Skype: I can hear the voice of the test call, but it fails to detect the microphone. (on my webcam and built-in laptop)
Firefox:Sound over laptop speakers, that works just fine. But when I plug in the headphone,the sound over the speakers is
still there and no sound over the headphone. In a normal situation, previous 4m versions, the speakers mutes and there is
sound in the headphone when the headphone gets plugged in.
I haven't tested mediaplayers and such, yet.
3) m in alsmixer works for mute/unmute, however, no sound over headphone when mute.
As for Qasmixer, all the bleu boxes are ticked. First thing I did before posting this.
I have no idea what is going on. Surprisingly, it would be easier if you had no sound at all.
You can try to run the "unmute" command in your terminal (*).
You can also force 4MLinux to reconfigure sound. Close all programs. Open terminal and execute:
Code:
rm /etc/asound.state
rm /etc/init.d/shutdown.sh
umount -a
reboot
Applying the above code make sense only if your 4MLinux is installed to a hard disk drive.
(*)Note:
My "unmute" script makes more things than its name indicates. It seeks for your sound cards and "talks to them". Next, it sets the default sound card for your system. And finally, it tries to unmute the sound.
The Microphone is another matter. Skype does not detect it, nor VLC player.
Checked qasmixer and alsamixer, pushed and slide every button on capture, no result.
Audicity and 1.ogg works just fine with microphone.
Skype: nope.
(Is it me or has Skype become less configureable?)
Me thinks it is a permission issue.
I've been doing some digging:
ls -l in the terminal gives the following:
total 1800
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1830912 Nov 10 05:14 1.ogg
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 4 09:40 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 9 16:54 Downloads
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 9 18:45 Videos
And:
cat /etc/group | grep audio
audio:x:1000:
Anyway, do you think it is a permission issue as well?
And if so, how to change permissions.
I don't want to screw things up.
Things to do with Security.
I don't think so. It just works fine for me.
Double check that you have your recording device(s) unmuted/captured. They are not visible by default. You must click on the microphone icon in QasMixer (or press F4 in AlsaMixer).
Those were the first things I did before posting this thread.
Have been playing aroung with internal mic, stereo mix, line, front mic.
Feel more or less stupid, what am I overlooking?
I am sorry for taking up your time.
Have a good weekend!
Skype is working on my laptop!
Here is what I did.
I installed puppy linux on an usb stick.
Then I downloaded Skype (from site) and installed it on Puppy.
However, Skype did not work for some reason. (things to do with dependencies, I strongly believe)
So I opened in Puppy my sda2 disk (4mlinux) and opened Skype.
It worked, sound and all. To my surprise. And not. Different sound mixer. But still Alsa.
I then deleted Skype form Puppy, copied the 4mlinux (sda2) version of
Skype to Puppy and hey presto it works.
And by the way, sound did not work any more on the new Firefox. While asound is added to the known file.
Correct me if I am wrong, but is my laptop HP 6730b too old for 4mlinux, perhaps?
For me the only logical reason I can think of now, after spending quite some time to make things work.
I would hate to move away from 4mlinux. Together with Puppy my fav distro's.
Anyway, my overseas family and friends are happy seeing me again.
Have a good sunday!
My conclusion is that the hardware is the issue here.
Hence everything works fine on older software.
I do shall keep an eye on 4mlinux.
Thanks a million for your time,
Subject closed!
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