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From: "Nathanael D. Noblet" <nathanael@gnat.ca>
To: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: Internal Mic Boost channel is unused
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 13:58:08 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5255B550.6070001@gnat.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5255B2A8.6060507@gnat.ca>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-09 19:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-12 15:52 Internal Mic Boost channel is unused Nathanael D. Noblet
2013-09-12 18:43 ` David Henningsson
2013-09-12 19:17   ` Nathanael D. Noblet
2013-09-13  3:23 ` Raymond Yau
2013-09-13 16:04 ` Nathanael D. Noblet
2013-09-14  0:34   ` David Henningsson
2013-09-16 15:14     ` Nathanael D. Noblet
2013-09-16 21:57       ` David Henningsson
2013-09-18 15:28         ` Nathanael D. Noblet
2013-10-09 19:46         ` Nathanael D. Noblet
2013-10-09 19:58           ` Nathanael D. Noblet [this message]
2013-10-10 13:33             ` David Henningsson
2013-09-14  2:23   ` Raymond Yau
2013-09-14  4:14   ` Raymond Yau

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