Recording from front mic in Fedora 11

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 04/20/2009 10:44 AM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 10:13 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  
>>> Have you read the discussion in the bugs you are pointing to ?
>> I glimpsed through it and I don't see a current solution to the problem.
>> If I missed something, let me know. I need to update the release notes.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491372#c9
> 
> and 
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491372#c13
> 
> Give a good summary of the current state. 
> 
> In short: Alsa in its current state doesn't allow to implement a useful
> input selection UI. All you can currently do is expose Also controls 1-1
> in the interface. alsamixer -c0 does that sufficiently well.

I could suggest using alsamixer as a workaround for now except that I
couldn't figure out how to switch between mic and front mic in
alsamixer. Any pointers?

Rahul