On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> Is anyone successfully using the external microphone jack on a Thinkpad
> T42?  My mic is working; I've tested it (and the software) on another
> machine.  I can record successfully using the built-in mic.
>
> I suspect that the problem is my mixerctl settings.  I've tried all of the
> record.source values that 'mixerctl -a -v' lists; for inputs.mic.source,
> I've tried mic0 and mic1.  All of the input mute values are off.
> pkgsrc/audio/xwave is not showing any input sounds at all, so I doubt it's
> any input record levels.

 	I had some luck with the following on a T41p, which is
 	probably similar if not the same

xargs mixerctl -w <<END
inputs.mic.preamp=on
inputs.mic.mute=off
inputs.phone.mute=off
inputs.mic=191
record.volume=64
END

/usr/pkg/bin/skype

xargs mixerctl -w <<END
inputs.mic.mute=on
END


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