Recording from front mic in Fedora 11

[Matthias Clasen]

On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 10:53 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 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?

No. Using alsamixer -V capture might make things a little easier.