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From: Brian Tew <btew@nyx.net>
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I finally got the microphone to record using alsa.
I want to pass along a tip that may help someone in future.

amixer cget numid=1

That command will display everything about the first element on your default sound card.
There are 71 such elements on my card.
I simply listed them all into a file.
Then I had something I could get a handle on.

amixer cset numid=1 new-value

That command sets element 1 to the new value.

I discovered my problem was an element called 'capture source' which was set to
phone.  I reset it to mic, and now I can harrass the world with my vocalizations.


--Brian Tew