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Date:      Sun, 31 May 2020 12:25:00 -0300
From:      Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Sound problems.
Message-ID:  <CA%2ByoEx9z1bMJWz4vsRYZUMFHq8Q2piXcgjwAbLPhCo1CCNdTng@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200530210930.986f7954.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 4:09 PM Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:

> On Fri, 29 May 2020 11:09:51 -0300, Mario Lobo wrote:
> > The realtek mic doesn't work. I tried everything I could. The microphone
> > sound goes out to the speakers, apps (firefox) detect a mic but its input
> > doesn't go back into the system. So I wanted to switch the recording
> source
> > pcm6, so:
> >
> > sysctl hw.snd.default_unit=6
> >
> > which yields this:
> >
> > mixer
> > Mixer mic      is currently set to  95:95
> >
> > i.e., I won't be able to hear a damn thing, and applications won't
> detect a
> > mic.
>
> I had a comparable problem (not "mic not found", but "mic-through
> can be heared, but it doesn't record anything, in no program").
> The solution was to set the gain mixer channels (igain, ogain)
> to 100, and then it worked; maybe 0...99 = off, 100 = on? ;-)
>
> So maybe try setting all related channels to 100 first and then
> see if you can reduce the level. In worst case, attach an external
> hardware mixer to get better level control (which is what I'm doing
> at the moment).
>
>
> --
> Polytropon
> Magdeburg, Germany
> Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
> Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
>

Thanks for the reply, Poly.

Tested with this:

Mixer vol      is currently set to  84:84
Mixer pcm      is currently set to  96:96
Mixer speaker  is currently set to  85:85
Mixer line     is currently set to  20:20
Mixer mic      is currently set to 100:100
Mixer mix      is currently set to  94:94 *
Mixer rec      is currently set to 100:100 *
Mixer igain    is currently set to 100:100
Mixer ogain    is currently set to 100:100
Recording source: mic

On these sites:

https://webcammictest.com/check-mic.html
https://www.onlinemictest.com/

Firefox finds the mic but no input back in
Chromium doesn't even find the mic.

The webcam works on both.

Audacity doesn't record anything from the mic.

Thanks for trying.
-- 
Mario Lobo
http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br
FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!]



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