[Nottingham] unable to set microphone volume

[J J]

Godfrey - as chance has it I have just had to fix a mic audio issue on an
ASUS laptop (I'm in Glasgow, it's in Germany; thank goodness for good CLI
tools!)

Run this: amixer get Capture
That will show something like this:
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 31
  Front Left: Capture 31 [50%] [0.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 31 [50%] [0.00dB] [on]

If the volume is not at 100%, then run: amixer set Capture 100%
Then the first command again, it should now look a bit like this.
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 31
  Front Left: Capture 31 [100%] [30.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 31 [100%] [30.00dB] [on]

You can also still go into "alsamixer" and try in there. Even though you
have Pulseaudio, ALSA is still there.

HTH,

Jason

On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 at 18:36, Martin via Nottingham <
nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> Vadim,
>
> On 09/04/2020 18:27, VM wrote:
> > Martin, you must have pulseaudio for use in Firefox. They removed alsa
> support many years ago.
>
> Yep... As was 'discovered'!
>
> So, after many years of ALSA just simply working, PulseAudio is now a
> whole new world...
>
> The disconnect is that PulseAudio is not connecting with anything
> 'connected with' ALSA and also doesn't connect to ALSA either. All
> despite installing all the recommended bits.
>
> There's more to the technical story also. That's for this evening if
> anyone wants a laugh!
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
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