Microphone

The microphone is up in the right hinge hump in between the 9 and 0 buttons. It can be used with the lid open or closed since it has the hole facing up and slightly in toward the user (somewhat like the power LED).[1]

• Audio_system#Recording

Microphone testing

Note that in order to know if your microphone is working, you should probably have working sound. =) (todo: link)

• using mumble?

using arecord and aplay

• http://pandorawiki.org/Audio_system#Recording

Learn the device. On my desktop it is:

 \arecord -l

**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC889A Analog [ALC889A Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC889A Digital [ALC889A Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 2: ALC889A Analog [ALC889A Analog]
  Subdevices: 2/2
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
card 2: Microphone [Yeti Stereo Microphone], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

To test "Yeti Stereo Microphone", I see that it is card 2, subdevice 0. arecord will use hw:2,0 .. aplay will still use hw:0

 \arecord -D hw:2,0 -f cd |\
 \aplay   -D hw:0   -f cd