[Icon-tech] Allowing Mic input to play through the headphones

[Blake Galbraith]

There's still many issues I need to work out, for example, if you turn
the Icon off, not a restart, just hold the cancel to power it off, it
will reset the mixer controls. But, I'm getting there, hopefully.


On 7/6/08, Joe Giovanelli <joegio1 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm glad someone knows something about this problem of no output through the
> headphones during recording.
>
> I'm trying to learn something about Linux, but am having problems with the
> screen not being read thoroughly and
> lots more problems.
>
> Anyway, thanks for those who are working on the heaphone problem.
>
> Joe G.
>
> On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 20:32:56 -0600, Blake Galbraith wrote:
>
>
>>Hello, all.
>>I have been working on attempting to make the microphone input play
>>back through the headphones.
>>I am aware of a few things. Firstly, this will also play through the
>>Icon's speakers or earpeace when the headphones are unplugged, this is
>>because pretty much all of the Icon's outputs are being processed
>>through the headphone mixer.
>>2. I was playing around with the out3 and out4 in the amixer controls,
>>and discovered that if I set the out3, I believe it was, to the same
>>volume as the 'Capture to Headphone' mixer control, I think this was,
>>the microphone input to the earpeace would be louder.
>>I don't remember each command I used, but I wrote two of them down
>>which seem to work somewhat well.
>>They are
>>amixer set Capture 45
>>amixer set 'Capture Headphone Mux',0 'Stereo'
>>amixer set 'Capture to Headphone' 7
>>If anyone doesn't want an explanation of what these commands do, skip
>>this and go to the next paragraph.
>>The first command was
>>amixer set Capture 45
>>This is the capture recording level, this is what you set in the
>>recorder for the microphone's capture level, I believe.
>>amixer set 'Capture Headphone Mux',0 'Stereo'
>>I believe this is what brings the microphone input to the headphones,
>>I'm not sure if this will also work with the external microphone or
>>not, I haven't tried it.
>>amixer set 'Capture to Headphone' 7
>>This turns up the capture volume, I suppose this is the volume of the
>>output that is returned through the headphones.
>>
>>I would like to know if anyone knows how to increase the output volume
>>of the microphone.
>>I'll keep playing around with it, and let anyone know if I reach a
>>conclusion so you're not writing about something I've already
>>discovered.
>>
>>Thanks, all.
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