Ever since I installed opensuse 11.3, I hadn’t used my mic\/headset. Today I decided to fool a bit around in Ardour, but somehow my mic didn’t work. And alas, I made a classic beginner’s mistake: “the solution has to be difficult because it does not work out of the box”.<\/p>\n
I tried the standard stuff like trying out all input sources, adding hidden channels, etc. but when that didn’t help I was quickly diving into custom .asoundrc configuration, arecord\/aplay sysinfo scripts, probing kernel modules, looking into alsa upgrade scripts and the like.. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n
Until I had an epiphany while reading random forum post words. I had been adding the “hidden” channels to my mixer which indeed included “mic” and “front mic” with accompanying boost controls. I noticed a few others which I threw in as well for good measure. I neglected them though, as I didn’t feel interested in enabling “smart” 5.1 or IEC958 2, whatever that was. But then I suddenly remembered: motherboards come with configurable audio backpanels, so this wasn’t really about enabling a fancy audioprocessing feature but rather switching between the 5.1 and standard audio panel, duh!<\/p>\n
Apparently, the 5.1 was enabled by default, so “muting” it solved my problem!<\/p>\n
Btw, in case you wonder: the HDA NVidia VT1708S chipset is actually a HDA Intel chipset with VIA codec, hence the VTxxxx name. To keep things intesting. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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