very low input on micro

[jdow]

From: "François Patte" <francois.patte at math-info.univ-paris5.fr>

> Claude Jones a écrit :
>> On Sunday September 17 2006 6:19 am, François Patte wrote:
>>
>>>I have an ASUS P5WD2 Premium mobo and it seems that the sound card is a
>>>realtek ALC882.
>>>
>>>I have a very low input for the microphone (alsamixer mic=100%) and I do
>>>not what is to be done in that case.
>>>
>>>Can someone give me some clue?
>>
>>
>> Bonjour to you: You haven't given enough information. Maybe this will help
>> you. On my system, which is running KDE, I can open KMix and go to
>> the "Switches" tab, and there is a switch to boost the mic input +20db. It
>> seems to get turned off by updates periodically and makes my Skype unusable
>> till I figure it out.
>
> I'm not using KDE but there is the same system with gnome, and this
> appears also when you run alsamixer from the command line, *but* in the
> case of this specific sound card (which comes with the mobo) I cannot
> see this "boost" switch and I am wondering if some driver is not missing
> for this card.

Are there separate microphone and 'line' input jacks? You might be
plugged into a line level input which would make it rather weak.
{^_^}