From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Nathanael D. Noblet" Subject: Re: Internal Mic Boost channel is unused Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 13:58:08 -0600 Message-ID: <5255B550.6070001@gnat.ca> References: <5231E348.8020204@gnat.ca> <52333782.9070402@gnat.ca> <5233AEFC.8000907@canonical.com> <5237204A.7040602@gnat.ca> <52377EDC.6040105@canonical.com> <5255B2A8.6060507@gnat.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from titanium.nobletdesign.com (titanium.nobletdesign.com [64.34.172.148]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FF5B261622 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2013 21:58:11 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <5255B2A8.6060507@gnat.ca> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: David Henningsson Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On 10/09/2013 01:46 PM, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: > On 09/16/2013 03:57 PM, David Henningsson wrote: >> Matching this with your alsa-info, we can see that 'Mic Jack' >> corresponds to 0x1b and 'Mic Jack', index=1 corresponds to 0x1a. >> >> Hence you could try turning pin 0x1a to "not connected" in >> hda-jack-retask. (I don't know how/if hda-jack-retask is packaged in >> Fedora, but it is part of alsa-tools.) >> >> If this resolves your problem, we could then try making that the default >> in upcoming kernels, but the question is we really dare to do that, >> without clear confirmation that 0x1a is actually useless. In current >> state it's a bit buggy, but if the headphone jack is actually a headset >> jack turning that off would make the headset mic go from "needs manual >> adjustment to work" to "completely unusuable". > > So that adjustment allows the internal microphone to be useable. However > the mic in jack is now completely unusable. With a headset or a plain > microphone. > > Thoughts? Actually I was wrong. I plugged it into the wrong jack. With that retask everything seems to work now. Plugging in a microphone into the mic jack picks up that audio, unplugging it uses the built in mic. So that's good. What's the next step? -- Nathanael d. Noblet t 403.875.4613