Recording from front mic in Fedora 11

[Matthias Clasen]

On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 11:10 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 04/20/2009 10:54 AM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> 
> > 
> > No. Using alsamixer -V capture might make things a little easier.
> 
> Tried that already.  alsamixer -V capture gives me a single control to
> move up or down. It doesn't allow me to switch between mics and I have
> to use kmix or xfce4-mixer (both of which have a long list of
> dependencies, some of which are odd ) to actually do what I want.
> 
> I tried alsamixer -V capture -c0 gives me more controls but front mic is
> disabled with no way to adjust that setting. Not sure whether there is
> any better solution and telling users to install other desktop
> environment's volume control doesn't seem right. Open to ideas.


man alsamixer lists available keyboard commands. 
'm', space, up and down seem good candidates for randomly hitting.