[Solved] ALSA: Microphone plays through speakers.

Hey guys.  I just got a microphone and turned it on (discovered I had to unmute it in 'alsamixer -V capture') and it works just fine but sound is passing through to the speakers.  I tried muting everything I wasn't using in alsamixer.  Here's the output of 'alsamixer -V all':
Card: HDA NVidia │
│ Chip: Realtek ALC888 │
│ View: Playback Capture [All] │
│ Item: Master [dB gain=0.00] │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │▒▒│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │▒▒│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │▒▒│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │▒▒│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │▒▒│ │ │ │ │ │▒▒│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │▒▒│ │ │ │ │ │▒▒│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
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│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │▒▒│ │ │ │ │ │▒▒│ │
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│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │▒▒│ │ │ │ │ │▒▒│ │
│ ├──┤ ┌──┐ └──┘ ├──┤ ├──┤ └──┘ ├──┤ ├──┤ ├──┤ ├──┤ ├──┤ ├──┤ └──┘ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ └──┘ └──┘ ├──┤ └──┘ Front Mi Front Mi │
│ │OO│ │OO│ │OO│ │OO│ │OO│ │OO│ │MM│ │MM│ │MM│ │MM│ │MM│ │MM│ │MM│ │
│ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ L R L R └──┘ │
│ CAPTUR CAPTUR │
│ 100 100<>100 71<>71 100<>100 67<>67 71<>71 77 0 0<>0 0<>0 0<>0 0<>0 71<>71 0<>0 0<>0 50<>50 │
│ < Master > Headphon PCM Front Front Mi Front Mi Surround Center LFE Side Line Mic Mic Boos IEC958 IEC958 D Capture Capture Beep Digital Input So Input So │
Any ideas on what I have to do to disable sound passing through to the speakers?
Last edited by Gen2ly (2009-07-10 08:37:48)

Ok, got it really sorted.  Don't know why it's like this by default though.  Had to mute the front mic (the one I'm using) and enable capture.  Done.  Phew, somewhat odd.

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