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Enable microphone with mixerctl
Hi!
My question is: What value/section I need to modify for enable microphone? I need to use an audio recorder, and it does not take any sound Look here, this is what I have: Quote:
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Simply providing mixerctl(1) output doesn't provide much detail about your hardware. Providing complete dmesg(8) output would have been better. Nevertheless, here are a few things you should check:
Good luck. Last edited by ocicat; 23rd December 2016 at 12:07 AM. Reason: add clarity |
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There are several caveats to most sound devices.
1) The pin assignments on a sound chip are either "in" or "out" - not both. 2) On your system OpenBSD is identifying two mic inputs. This commonly occurs with laptops that have both a mic jack and a small builtin mic that is usually next to the webcam on the monitor bezel or with desktops with front panel and rear panel audio jacks. 3) The physical configuration for mic jacks have changed. In older hardware mic and headphone jacks were separated, the headphones would have left/right/common pins and the mic 2 pins. Newer laptops have a single 4 pin jack for headphones/mic combinations. Mismatching the jacks ie plugging 2 pin mic into a 4 pin jack can mute the main speakers and not align the pins correctly to record sound. Last edited by shep; 23rd December 2016 at 12:21 AM. |
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