Re: [LAU] No mic input after removing arts

On Saturday 12 January 2008, Mrugesh Karnik wrote:
> On Saturday 12 Jan 2008 14:23:44 Arnold Krille wrote:
> > Am Samstag, 12. Januar 2008 schrieb Mrugesh Karnik:
> > > A while ago, being annoyed by arts interfering with skype, I decided to
> > > recompile my KDE without arts (I'm on Gentoo). Since then, my KDE does
> > > not emit any kind of sound for system notifications.
> >
> > KDE(3) without aRts means KDE without sound. So that is very clear
> > behavior. Either you want the KDE-systemsounds or not, either you want
> > (or tolerate) aRts or not.
>
> Thought so. But this issue is nearly irrelevant :)

It is completely irrelavant to the other part of your question, yes..

> > > The bigger issue is that my mic input simply does not `reach' any
> > > software. Anything said into the mic comes out from the speakers
> > > directly. The volume controls in kmix for the mic work correctly,
> > > however. How do I fix this? Oh, I haven't tried to use the mic anywhere
> > > outside KDE..
> >
> > Maybe try another mixer-app too. alsamixer (and the graphical
> > alsamixergui) are direct representants of the mixing controls of the
> > soundcard. But I really doubt that is has anything to do with aRts being
> > removed. Unless you try to record with an app that only uses aRts and not
> > alsa directly...
>
> Hmmm. Audacity doesn't detect any input from the mic. Everything I blow
> into it comes out from the speakers directly.

Show us the output of the command

amixer

Thanks,
Flo

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