Michael Harper’s Tech & Art Blog

In my last post, I mentioned an audio problem I was having with Ubuntu. The mic was not capturing audio so I went through a tutorial on how to fix my audio with a few modifications. Those modifications set me my audio askew and I realized what the problem was. If you bring up the volume control panel and click on File > Change Device, you might see 5 or more choices for audio devices. You must be sure to choose the correct device for audio to function properly. For some reason, the Alsa mixer works almost universally from what I’ve read and experience personally. It is my default, or 1st option, on the device list. There was another option for “analog input: front” which turned out to be my front volume switch however the Alsa stilled managed to function better (as in more volume). I’m still trying to figure out why my mic isn’t working when I’m able to get feedback and echos when I bring up the Alsa Mixer app by typing “alsamixer” in the terminal window, but we’re making progress.

Fedora decided to finally update after I attempted to use a package installer to install Picasa 3. Initially it couldn’t update and had 2 errors in conjunction with updating. It’s currently installing numerous bug fixes and security patches as we speak. Bless you Fedora. Bless you.