[sllug-members]: Alsa

[Robert Lewis]

Stuart Jansen wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 18:48 -0800, Robert Lewis wrote:
>   
>> However, no microphone as yet.
>>     
>
> Oh the joy that is sound in Linux.
>
> Have you tried running alsactl to make sure the microphone is enabled? I
> personally don't trust other apps because their efforts to be friendly
> invariably hide something.
>
>   
Stuart,

I read the man pages.  Looked at the file /etc/asound.state
but don't  have the foggiest idea what to try.  I

I did try:
alsactl names
alsactl 0

but nothing comes back.

So I am to dumb to know what to do with the command.

Cheers,
Bob