Whilst at Desktop Summit I want to do some work with a colleague who can't be present, and we considered using Google Hangout. Up to this point I hadn't tried using either the webcam or built-in microphone on the netbook (Acer Aspire One 533). The webcam is fine, but I can't get it to recognise the built-in microphone.
My next step with audio problems is always to open the command-line alsamixer. There I found that the capture device settings were muted. Setting those correctly hasn't made the microphone work.
Then I turned to pavucontrol - which tells me I have no microphone - not what the netbook manual says. I tried an external microphone too, which seemed to go unnoticed.
Has anyone any ideas? I found lots of threads about Ubuntu users having problems, but of course the commands and packages recommended for them are less helpful in Fedora.
Anne
On Wednesday, July 27, 2011 04:21:40 PM Anne Wilson wrote:
Whilst at Desktop Summit I want to do some work with a colleague who can't be present, and we considered using Google Hangout. Up to this point I hadn't tried using either the webcam or built-in microphone on the netbook (Acer Aspire One 533). The webcam is fine, but I can't get it to recognise the built-in microphone.
My next step with audio problems is always to open the command-line alsamixer. There I found that the capture device settings were muted. Setting those correctly hasn't made the microphone work.
Then I turned to pavucontrol - which tells me I have no microphone - not what the netbook manual says. I tried an external microphone too, which seemed to go unnoticed.
Has anyone any ideas? I found lots of threads about Ubuntu users having problems, but of course the commands and packages recommended for them are less helpful in Fedora.
After much playing around I found that if I plugged in the external microphone to the netbook, then set Google hangout to use Default (unexpected) I could get sound working. It's not ideal as I will have to pack a microphone, so I'd still like to know if anyone got the internal one working.
Anne
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Anne Wilson