(Newbie.) Still looking for the correct sound input settings.

[Bas Roufs]

Thanks, Don, for your quick reply.
> ...Those green/red buttons in kmix are a mystery to me too -- I suspect they may be mute buttons, but who knows? :)
>   
Anyone else on this forum who knows K-Mix better?

> To get a simpler view on things, run alsamixer from the command line.
>   
Alsamixer works nicely- I smoothed the CR-CR-CR sound a bit with it. But 
the problem as such has not yet been solved like this.

> As for the clicking sounds -- I played with a mic once and found that a lot of 
> the noise depends on the wire and the plug going into the card. Perhaps your 
> mic has a bad cable or something's loose? Mine is super cheap and real 
> rubbish and makes sounds like H.P.Lovecraft on the jazz up to his eyeballs in 
> Djinn :D
>   
My headset, a "Sennheisser" - is simple too. However, it functions well 
enough. I have the clicking CR-CR-CR sounds only when I 'open' the 
microphone in K-mix. The sound OUTPUT is perfectly OK, especially when I 
mute the microphone function of KMIX.
By the way, I use the same headset at the Windows partitions of this 
laptop as well as at another machine. In those cases, the sound INPUT 
works well also.
So, there is no HARDWARE problem in my case. So, I am still only looking 
for some correct/ workable SOFTWARE settings in Kubuntu Gutsy...

So far for this moment...

Bas.

-- 
*************************
Viaconsensus
Bas G. Roufs M.A.
Van 't Hoffstraat 1
NL-3514 VT  Utrecht
E.:  BasRoufs at gmail.com
M.: +31.6.446.835.10.
T.: +31.30.785.20.40.
Skype: BasRoufs
Google Talk: BasRoufs
Yahoo Messenger: Bas6Humanety
**************************