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Posted: **Sun Feb 08, 2009 10:23 pm**

Im sorry to bother you guys again with this... but im coming back with this old and unsolved problem.

I have linux mint 5 installed on my hp dv 9000. Everything works great but I have never been able to get the internal mic to work. Im carrying with this problem since I first used linux almost a year ago when I got Ubuntu.

The only thing I have found out is that my alsamixer lacks many of the features other laptops have, as shown in the attached picture.

i hope you could help me give it another try. Im really starting to miss skype

Posted: **Sun Feb 08, 2009 10:48 pm**

Under view you are under Playback.
Try looking at All or Capture.

Posted: **Mon Feb 09, 2009 8:35 am**

yup.. sorry bout that!
here's a screenshot showing capture. For the record, im trying the mic on audio recorder but just get static upon playback.

Posted: **Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:51 pm**

The only thing I found that might work is to install OSS4 and use skype-static-oss.
Installing OSS4
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenSound

Posted: **Mon Feb 09, 2009 8:19 pm**

thaks for this... Ill give it a read tomorrow morning,

tell me, how good is OSS compared to ALSA?

Posted: **Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:58 am**

whoa, that OSS installation really intimidates me, Im really not sure if I can go through it without breaking something...

I guess Im sticking with ALSA for the moment

thank you very much anyway

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