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Title: Trying to get microphone to work
Post by: thera on October 27, 2015, 12:13:23 PM

I want to activate my microphone.
I have this:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GSE Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GSE Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7-M Family) SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit or Fast Ethernet (rev b0)


any ideas?

Title: Re: Trying to get microphone to work
Post by: torreydale on October 27, 2015, 02:57:00 PM

Is the microphone an onboard microphone?  How do you want to use it? 

What happens if you open up the Volume Control tool (Menu, Multimedia, Volume Control) and go to the Input Devices tab?  In the pull down menu for Port, do you see any microphone choices there?

Title: Re: Trying to get microphone to work
Post by: thera on October 27, 2015, 08:17:38 PM

how do i paste a screenshot from clipboard to here?

Title: Re: Trying to get microphone to work
Post by: firenice03 on October 27, 2015, 09:25:36 PM

Quote from: thera on October 27, 2015, 08:17:38 PM

how do i paste a screenshot from clipboard to here?

Paste/upload to imgur http://imgur.com/ (http://imgur.com/)
Then paste  the bbc code (IMG URL)  into the post...

Oh, no account is needed either :)

Title: Re: Trying to get microphone to work
Post by: Jerry on October 28, 2015, 01:41:38 AM

https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/introductions/forum-posting-guidelines/

Title: Re: Trying to get microphone to work
Post by: thera on October 28, 2015, 10:29:59 PM

ok
did screenshot
did imgur

http://imgur.com/vYtMF1l

now what?
trying to get microphone to work

Title: Re: Trying to get microphone to work
Post by: firenice03 on October 29, 2015, 02:59:33 PM

Looks like its activated... What app are you using to record?

If you have a webcam on your system and haven't yet, in Lite Software there is the webcam software - I think it will record video and audio...

UPDATE:
Oh the webcam software is called guvcview

Title: Re: Trying to get microphone to work
Post by: thera on October 29, 2015, 05:07:22 PM

trying google voice search

also what is linux for audacity?

Title: Re: Trying to get microphone to work
Post by: torreydale on October 29, 2015, 05:35:50 PM

You can install audacity via Install/Remove software.  Just search for audacity, mark it for installation and click on apply.

Or if you want to do the above faster, just enter the following code into a terminal:

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sudo apt-get install audacity


Audacity is very feature rich.  If you want something more entry level, you should consider audio-recorder as seen here:
http://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/.  It can be installed by putting the following in a terminal one line at a time.

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sudo apt-add-repository ppa:osmoma/audio-recorder
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install audio-recorder