Bug 191832

Summary: Add microphone test in sound settings
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: dmoyne <daniel.moyne>
Component: kcm_phononAssignee: Matthias Kretz <kretz>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: alpha_one_x86, finex, gilbertoca, grn4blu, jfrantzius, mauromol, mike, sitter, toddrme2178, vasyl.demin
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Unlisted Binaries   
OS: Linux   
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Description dmoyne 2009-05-06 18:43:23 UTC 
Version:           4.2.2 (using KDE 4.2.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Unspecified Linux

In Kde setting it would be great to add something more consistent regarding mike setting for sound : for example something like a vu-meter to test mike input ; this idea is because after a fresh installation of jaunty + KDE 4.2.2 I could no find the reason why mike input was not detected in Audacity and in Skype ; now it is fixed but at the end of the day I do not know what exactly cured the problem.

In case of problem I suggest to add a test button to issue a consistent report to be included in KDE bug report system.

Regards.
Comment 1 FiNeX 2009-05-06 22:48:02 UTC 
What's "mike"... do you mean microphone?
Comment 2 dmoyne 2009-05-07 10:27:06 UTC 
yes I do ; the idea behinh my wish report is that if you propose something to test output there are no reasons not to test inputs.
Comment 3 Ben Cooksley 2009-05-19 08:52:31 UTC 
Reassigning
Comment 4 Christoph Feck 2011-07-22 19:58:29 UTC 
*** Bug 210231 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 petrovichev.gleb 2012-10-21 20:50:13 UTC 
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
Comment 6 Harald Sitter 2013-10-25 11:12:51 UTC 
Now available in hardware setup.
Comment 7 Harald Sitter 2013-10-25 11:13:15 UTC 
Created attachment 83107 [details]
screenshot
Comment 8 Mauro Molinari 2014-05-31 19:30:45 UTC 
Where is "hardware setup"? I have KDE 4.8.4 and I only have "Device preference" and "Backend" tabs in Multimedia configuration.
Comment 9 Christoph Feck 2014-07-10 22:01:16 UTC 
First, you need a newer KDE version. Additionally, make sure your distribution compiles kde-runtime with the required libcanberra and pulseaudio support.