FC6: why is microphone always disabled after reboot

[Ian Malone]

Pavel Lisý wrote:

> 
> Problem is that I cannot find right volume control button for this when
> I have gnome-volume-control started with ALSA device. There is not
> Microphone on Capture TAB. I am incl
> 
> This is maybe reason why:
> alsactl store
> alsactl restore

You're right, these will only save or load the current mixer settings
to and from the default.  If you can't enable the microphone in the
current settings they won't help.

> don't work. I thought I made it that by this:
> 
> I have this in /etc/modprobe.conf:
> install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 \
>    && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> remove snd-emu10k1 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 \
>    || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-emu10k1
> 
> How I can set it through ALSA TABs in gnome-volume-control?
> 


This is maybe one for the alsa-users list, however:
Does volume control|edit|preferences have an option to
enable the microphone?
Does the output of "$ amixer" appear to display anything
microphone related?

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imalone