How to get microphone to work?

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trybeingarun

Hi guys,
I am a freebsd newbie and am finding my way through. As of now my microphone is not working and I did not know what to check...looked up in the handbook and found nothing useful...

Code: 
[arun@hogwartz ~]$ mixer -f /dev/mixer12
mixer: /dev/mixer12: No such file or directory
[arun@hogwartz ~]$ mixer -f /dev/mixer0
Mixer vol      is currently set to 100:100
Mixer pcm      is currently set to 100:100
Mixer speaker  is currently set to  75:75
Mixer line     is currently set to  75:75
Mixer mic      is currently set to   0:0
Mixer mix      is currently set to   0:0
Mixer rec      is currently set to   0:0
Recording source: mic, mix

This is the only lead I got in some blog an I have posted it here.
 
trybeingarun said:
Hi guys,
I am a freebsd newbie and am finding my way through. As of now my microphone is not working and I did not know what to check...looked up in the handbook and found nothing useful...

Code: 
[arun@hogwartz ~]$ mixer -f /dev/mixer12
mixer: /dev/mixer12: No such file or directory
[arun@hogwartz ~]$ mixer -f /dev/mixer0
Mixer vol      is currently set to 100:100
Mixer pcm      is currently set to 100:100
Mixer speaker  is currently set to  75:75
Mixer line     is currently set to  75:75
Mixer mic      is currently set to   0:0
Mixer mix      is currently set to   0:0
Mixer rec      is currently set to   0:0
Recording source: mic, mix

This is the only lead I got in some blog an I have posted it here.
Click to expand...

Try:
mixer -S =rec mic
 
trybeingarun said:
Dint work :(
Still my microphone slider in volume control is frozen...
Click to expand...

Microphone slider? Do you have KDE, GMNOME...?
 
In terminal try to change your mic setting.

Example:
Code: 
$ mixer mic 15:15 
Setting the mixer mic from 13:13 to 15:15.
 
I have KDE 4.3 installed.
Code: 
mixer mic 15:15
mixer mix 15:15
both dint work when I tried recording sound in audacity. But the best part is that I know my microphone is detecting signals now. How do I record voice now?
 
Hey Sixtydoses,
Thanks a lot for ur help. Can u also tell where I can learn more about freebsd? I have "the handbook" with me and also "Absolute Freebsd" book with me; both are beyond parallel. I also found freebsdnews.net quite useful. But apart from these I dont have any resource to learn from...any suggestions?
 
Add
Code: 
dev.pcm.0.play.vchans=4
to /boot/loader.conf
Then run:
Code: 
# sysctl dev.pcm.0.play.vchans=4 
# sysctl dev.pcm.0.rec.vchans=4 
# sysctl hw.snd.maxautovchans=4

You can find the solution in the FreeBSD Handbook,
7.2.3 Utilizing Multiple Sound Sources
 
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