Re: Soundblaster Mic not working...

Geoff Hardy (ghardy@biztravel.com)
Wed, 27 May 1998 11:48:48 -0400


I forgot to mention that I have no problems with the mic in Win95. Also, I'm
running kernel 2.1.102.

Thanks,

Geoff Hardy
ghardy@biztravel.com

Jason Venner wrote:

> My sb16 behaves the same way. I think the card is defective as the low
> mic volumne happens accross all mic's & linux & windoz.
>
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> > I've got everything working with the Soundblaster AWE64 (PnP) -- except
> > the microphone. I tried a simple program that reads from /dev/dsp and
> > then writes back to it. Nothing happened except low volume noise.
> >
> > /dev/snstat reports everything working, and reading the mixer settings
> > shows that the volume on the mic is set to 17% (default?), which should
> > pick up something -- right?
> >
> > writing data to /dev/dsp seems to work. All other functions of the sound
> > card seem to work, including Audio CD playback, AWE synth, etc. What else
> > can I check or test? Let me know if other information is needed to debug
> > this problem.
> >
> > Thanks a lot,
> >
> > Geoff Hardy
> > ghardy@biztravel.com
> >
> >
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