Problems with Audigy 2 ZS Notebook and microphone

Hello,

I am new to this list, so I dont know if my problem was
discussed
earlier on this list.

I've got a Creative Audigy 2 ZS Notebook pcmcia-soundcard. I
read in the
Alsa changelog that since version 1.0.13 the input of this
card was
supported. So I got a knew kernel (2.6.20.7) and the newest
Alsa driver
(1.0.14rc3). After compiling everything the sound input does
indeed
work. But the problem is that it is not loud enough. I can
record my
voice with audacity, for example but afterwards I have to
amplify the
sound by about 50 dB to be able to hear it.

I have tried to use all the switches the kmixer or the
alsamixer have to
 get a louder input. But I had no success.

Does anyone have any idea how to solve that problem?




Alx Kartzow



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Hi!

Maybe you can find something in the archive
(http://ne
ws.gmane.org/gmane.linux.alsa.user). I remember a post
that
might help you:


http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.alsa.user/26665

Please tell me, if it works...

Regards, Ingo


Alexander Kartzow schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> I am new to this list, so I dont know if my problem was
discussed
> earlier on this list.
> 
> I've got a Creative Audigy 2 ZS Notebook
pcmcia-soundcard. I read in the
> Alsa changelog that since version 1.0.13 the input of
this card was
> supported. So I got a knew kernel (2.6.20.7) and the
newest Alsa driver
> (1.0.14rc3). After compiling everything the sound input
does indeed
> work. But the problem is that it is not loud enough. I
can record my
> voice with audacity, for example but afterwards I have
to amplify the
> sound by about 50 dB to be able to hear it.
> 
> I have tried to use all the switches the kmixer or the
alsamixer have to
>  get a louder input. But I had no success.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea how to solve that problem?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Alx Kartzow
> 


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Hi!

> Maybe you can find something in the archive
> (http://ne
ws.gmane.org/gmane.linux.alsa.user). I remember a post
that
> might help you:
> 
> 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.alsa.user/26665

Thank you for that suggestion, but I could not try that
because I do not
understand, how to use such a software device for my
microphone. I read
all the documentation I could find about that, and I
understand how to
create one and that this "slave" is the next
device to process the
sound, but I could not figure out, where to tell Alsa that
all sound
coming from the micro has to be send to my knew amplifier
device.
Do you have any idea about that?


> 
> Please tell me, if it works...

Even If I could not try that, something happened and now my
microphon
works. What I did, was the following: After reading a lot
of
documentation, I found one talking about the aumix and
differences
between the options in aumix, alsamixer and kmixer, so I got
aumix and
started that. In Aumix I have a microphone-control that is
not related
to my microphone-control in alsamixer/kmixer and is alway
set to 100. If
 I try to change that it returns to 100 after about half a
second.
But since I used once aumix my microphone works.
I can control the input with my mixers in kmixer but there
seems to be
something wrong:
For the Input there is an  Line a Mic and a Analog Mix
mixer.
If I chose the Mic for recording then the following happens:
Mic and
Analog Mix manage the input of the microphone while
independently form
Mic and Analog Mix the Line redirect my microphone directly
to my
output, so I hear what I am saying if I set up to 100 the
Line, but I
cannot record the sound then.

I am quit not sure if that is the behaviour these mixers
should have.
The mixers on the output are a bit rare, too. So I got a
Master, a PCM,
a Front, an Analog Mix, an OLD PCM and an Old Mic mixer.

Master, Front and Old PCM are mixing my general output.  Old
Mic Analog
Mix and PCM  seem to have no funcionality at all ...

Should I write a bug report about that?


Alx

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