[arch-general] Microphone issues on ICH7

[Will Siddall]

Thanks Péter,
I've just gave that a try and didn't work.

Is there a way that I could go about getting debug information from my
sound card?  I would like to know if this is a driver issue or if it's
a hardware issue.

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Avramucz Péter <muczyjoe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Try model=hp, in /etc/modprobe.d/options:
> " options snd-hda-intel model=hp "
> Then reboot, or reload snd-hda-intel, of course.
>
> Bye,
> muczy
>
> Will Siddall írta:
>>
>> Hey everyone,
>> I've had this great HP laptop for the past 4 years with no need (of
>> course there's always a want) to upgrade.  And of all this time, I
>> never had a problem with it, until now.  Out of the past 4 years, I've
>> never needed to use my microphone for anything, but lately I've been
>> sent overseas a lot for work and needing to keep in contact, decided
>> to start skype to call back home.  That's when I noticed that my
>> microphone didn't work at all.  I thought it would be skype, but
>> trying to use gnome-sound-recorder proved that to be wrong.  Nothing
>> is coming through.
>>
>> I've tried running 'alsaconf' again, I've tried a huge number of
>> .asoundrc setups, using different microphones, everything that I can
>> imagine.
>>
>> I'm out of ideas, would anyone have anything else I can try?  Has
>> anyone run into this problem before?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Will
>>
>