Re: [tlug] Mic Problems

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

On 17/01/06, Mark Sargent <powderkeg@example.com> wrote:

> Josh Glover wrote:
>
> >Doesn't alsamixer give you any indication of the capture status?
>
> yes, sorry, it does, Josh, 100% also.

Any on / off?

> >I wonder if esd or whatever is controlling the sound card's levels and
> >such. Try stopping esd, arts, and any other sound daemon that might be
> >running, then issuing the amixer commands again:
>
> Josh, hardware/Linux relationship really is my weakest point, although,
> with this event, I'm learnig more. I will endeavour to search out your
> suggestions some time soon.

Basically, just do a:

pkill esd
pkill artsd

as root. :)

There may be a more friendly way to do this, if esd or arts has a SysV
init script in /etc/init.d/

> yes, I am googling also. I have now moved this to a CentOS specific list
> also. Cheers.

Please do post the solution to this list if you find it elsewhere, for
the sake of the archives and my curiousity. :)

Cheers,
Josh