From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Henningsson Subject: Re: Conexant CX20585 recording does not work Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:42:13 +0200 Message-ID: <4D9DB125.6010600@canonical.com> References: <10033.91.152.175.130.1302179699.squirrel@go-nix.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from adelie.canonical.com (adelie.canonical.com [91.189.90.139]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id A91EF1038A0 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 14:42:14 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <10033.91.152.175.130.1302179699.squirrel@go-nix.ca> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Gabriel Schulhof Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On 2011-04-07 14:34, Gabriel Schulhof wrote: > Hi! > > My mom has a laptop with the following sound card: > > lspci: 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) > (rev 40) > > driver: snd_hda_intel > > alsamixer: > Card: HDA ATI SB > Chip: Conexant CX20585 > > I can't record from this card no matter what I try. It seems that > alsamixer has a lot of options: > > Mic B > Mic C > Mic E > Mic F > Capture<0% -- 100% slider> > Analog Mic Boost<0 db -- 40 db slider with 10 db increment> > > I have tried to record from each mic in turn, I have tried the different > boost levels (0 db - 40 db), but I have had no luck picking up anything. I > have attached an external mic to the line-in, but no difference. > > When I say "I have tried to record" I mean that I logged into her > computer, chose one of the mics from the above list, and then I told my > mom to say something while looking at the input sound level indicator in > the GNOME sound settings panel. On other computers, I have found this a > sufficient indication of whether the mic works. > > Is this inability to record a known limitation of this sound card? If not, > is there some special setting I have to modify to make it work? > > Please find attached the output from alsa-info. > > TIA for your help, Please try the model quirk "hp-laptop". In Ubuntu that would be adding the line: options snd-hda-intel model=hp-laptop to the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf I guess it's the same in Fedora. If it works, we'll create a quirk. (Memo to self: You should really help out with that cxt5066 autoparser someday.) -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. http://launchpad.net/~diwic