HOW the "H" do you get the Mic working in FC8

[Jim]

David G. Mackay wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 11:52 -0500, Jim wrote:
>   
>> Da Rock wrote:
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>>> On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 18:13 +1100, Simon Slater wrote:
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>>>> On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 15:35 -0500, Jim wrote:
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>>>>         
>>>>> FC8/KDE
>>>>> I have gone into Alsamixer selected MIC, enabled, Mic 1 is selected,  
>>>>> what else must I do to get MIC working.
>>>>> In Kmix all settings are enabled for MIC .
>>>>> The Mic is the most Frustrating thing to get working in the sound system.
>>>>> How do you run Pulse to check Mic Settings.
>>>>> The MIC is also a problem FC10,  submitted  messages to  Fedora-test 
>>>>> and  filed bug report, no body can  help.
>>>>> Anyhow  back to FC 8 Mic problems.
>>>>>
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> 	Good question.  After reading this post I realized that since
>>>> installing F8 I hadn't used the mic either.  I used Kmix and set the
>>>> level & clicked the green dot to turn it on.  Works fine.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Try setting the mixer to include capture settings - that helped me with
>>> my recording issues.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Yep I did the same thing, but no luck.
>>     
>
> What kind of sound card do you have?  I've got one system with an Nvidia
> chipset that emulates an Intel HDA sound card.  I jumped through lots of
> hoops trying to get it working.  Then, in the process of installing
> openmovieeditor, I installed the gmerlin mixer.  Using that got the mic
> working.  This is on an F9 64-bit system with pulseaudio running.
>
> Dave
>
>
>   
 Creative Labs CT4832 SBLive,   snd_emu10k1 driver.
What and where is the gmerlin mixer ?