[Help] michrophone only works when I make a change in mixer

[ayu]

Ok so I use Skype a lot. And I wanted to use it on my laptop because that is where I do most of my work. The thing is that every time I restart the computer, I have to start alsamixer and switch from "mic" to "front mic" and then back to "mic" again, to make it work =/

Why is this? and is there a way to automate this process?


Note: I use Ubuntu 8.04 on the laptop

[G-Brain]

What microphone is it?

[ayu]

What microphone is it?

What do you mean by that? =/ what model it is? or if it's the front mic or just mic?

I will assume the second one since it's the most relevant xF

It's "mic", the "front mic" is just a sucky one that is built in.

[G-Brain]

Okay, set it to "mic" (so that it works) and run

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alsactl store

as root. That's supposed to store your ALSA settings so that they survive a reboot.

I'll check the ALSA source to see if you can do the switch easily with a C program in case the above doesn't work. That would be a bit of a hack though.

[ayu]

It saves automatically, and even if it didn't I would just switch back to the settings that I just had =/ since I have to switch FROM mic to front mic, and then back to mic again to make it work.... for some reason.

[Big-E]

Did you try System > Preferences > Sound > Default Mixer

From there, set the default mixer to ALSA for the microphone and save the settings, should that not work?

[ayu]

Did you try System > Preferences > Sound > Default Mixer

From there, set the default mixer to ALSA for the microphone and save the settings, should that not work?

Yeah the default mixer is Alsa

[kane2025]

for some reason i think u haven't properly configured it
su to root and type 'alsaconf' it will automatically configure your sound card
now as normal user type alsamixer in terminal and change the settings all changes will be stored
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[ayu]

for some reason i think u haven't properly configured it
su to root and type 'alsaconf' it will automatically configure your sound card
now as normal user type alsamixer in terminal and change the settings all changes will be stored

I don't think you have quite gotten the issue here =) it IS configured, the issue is that I have to RE-configure it to something else, and then change it back to the same configuration that I started with, it doesn't matter if I save it since I have to change it every time anyway.

[bad_brain]

hmmm...any error to find during the boot process in syslog?

[ayu]

hmmm...any error to find during the boot process in syslog?

I'll make a check. Will have to wait a while though, just got the wireless working again xD