Microphone not working - HDA Intel (STAC92xx Analog) on HP DV8 laptop?

[chainsaw_sculptor]

Any suggestions on how to get the microphone working on my HP DV8 laptop?

Inside Systems Settings it is listed as: HDA Intel (STAC92xx Analog)

I'm running an up to date PCLINUXOS 2010 with KDE4.

Inside KMix it shows the audio inputs "Digital Mic" and "Capture" as well as "Mic Jack Mode" with a Mic In or Line In option.

In the PCLinuxOS Control Center it shows:

"Here you can select an alternative driver (either OSS or ALSA) for your sound card (nVidia Corporation|High Definition Audio Controller)."

"Your card currently use the ALSA "snd_hda_intel" driver (default driver for your card is "snd_hda_intel")"



Checked through the forum and have not found this problem posted by anyone else so I guess there is another step in configuring the microphone input to get it to work. I've pretty much tried everything but still no joy.

Thanks

[coffeetime]

Konsole, copy/paste:

Code: [Select]

alsamixer
and check the mic sliders.

My settings:

[chainsaw_sculptor]

When I open AlsaMixerGUI it looks nothing like what you have. I take it you are opening that AlsaMixer from the consol.

Which is the mixer package is it?

Thanks

[chainsaw_sculptor]

OK just figured that out.

Type in "alsamixer" from the command line.

According to this it appears as if the built in microphone (digital mic) should be working. However I'm not able to get this working in packages such as Audacity.

Any suggestions for the simplest most failsafe why to test the microphone input?

I'd like to track this down as I have several friends with different hardware where everything works but the microphone.

[Dragynn]

I don't know if this has anything to do with microphone input and I don't run KDE, but I had a conflict in audio output, and Just19 pointed me towards PulseAudio, searching from there I found "libalsa-plugins-pulseaudio" in the repo, which has this description:

Alsa to PulseAudio backend
This plugin allows any program that uses the ALSA API to access a PulseAudio
sound daemon. In other words, native ALSA applications can play and record
sound across a network. There are two plugins in the suite, one for PCM and
one for mixer control.

Seems like it helps to link alsa to pulseaudio, I installed it and my conflict went bye-bye! Maybe it can be of some use, good luck!

[zapjb]

How about

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,83163.0.html

It was my headphone jack but my Codec: SigmaTel STAC9205 is similar if not the same.
It might work & it's easy enough.

[chainsaw_sculptor]

The Gnome Alsa mixer has a very nice interface but it doesn't seem to offer any more functionality than the KMix.

I haven't tried Alsa to PulseAudio. I had so many problems with PulseAudio in the past that I'd prefer to stick with just Alsa.

I'm wondering if the nVidia High Definition Audio Controller isn't the issue. Perhaps playback is using the Intel driver but recording is trying to use the nVidia driver which seems to have no settings?

[chainsaw_sculptor]

Just bought a tiny USB soundcard and plugged it in. It was detected immediately and the microphone input works fine.

Strangely the internal microphone on my laptop now works as well.

So is it possible there was a configuration file that was updated when the USB soundcard was added?

Thanks everyone for all your help and suggestions.  

[Ertain]

What the hell, I'll add in my two cents.

In some programs you have to manually set the microphone, namely setting an option from the command line when starting the program from the command line.

[Phil]

Hello Lappy, Desky calling....

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,83330.0.html

Different hardware, same driver I think, same issue (I partially recovered my system and have a usb sound card on standby)