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Bug 848509

Summary: arecord on HP Elitebook 8470P fails
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Arthur Benoit <abenoit>
Component: alsa-libAssignee: Jaroslav Kysela <jkysela>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Description Arthur Benoit 2012-08-15 19:28:14 UTC
Created attachment 604675 [details]
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Description of problem:
I attempted to capture audio from my mic using the following command:
arecord -f dat -d 10 foo3.wav the file is created, but aplay foo3.wav outputs no sound. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL 5.9

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run arecord -f dat -d 10 somefile.wav
2. Run aplay somefile.wav
  
Actual results:
No sound is output

Expected results:
Expcet to hear sound

Additional info:
attached utils_alsa-info

Comment 1 Jaroslav Kysela 2012-08-16 07:37:41 UTC
Try to unmute the 'Capture' control, also, volume for the internal mic may be increased using 'Internal Mic' controls.

Comment 2 Arthur Benoit 2012-08-16 16:55:00 UTC
I unmutted the mic and things are better. Is there any work being done to get some standard sound options to be set the same way for all cards during the initial insall? It seems like any sound option (like capture) of a card should get a default configuration setting. This would make our default sound values more predictable no matter which vendor/adapter we configure.

Comment 3 Arthur Benoit 2012-11-12 22:06:24 UTC
I tried changing the capture and volume settings which at low volume help, but there is still a severe amount of static captured when recording on this laptop.

Comment 4 Jaroslav Kysela 2014-01-29 09:42:52 UTC
(In reply to Arthur Benoit from comment #2)
> I unmutted the mic and things are better. Is there any work being done to
> get some standard sound options to be set the same way for all cards during
> the initial insall? It seems like any sound option (like capture) of a card
> should get a default configuration setting. This would make our default
> sound values more predictable no matter which vendor/adapter we configure.

Things are improved in RHEL6. The RHEL5 contains alsaunmute and there were different rules to set the initial valume levels.