[Lancaster] Problem recording sound

[Wayne Ward]

Yes i had the same problem and had to switch it in on the kmix -. recording side 
another  quick test 

alsamixer from a terminal you can see if line in volumes are up and see if its un-muted

what sound card are you using..

also did anyone find any cheap speakers for andys demo or shal we just line it into a laptop ..

regards
wayne

On 12 Jan 2010, at 16:42, andy baxter wrote:

> Ken Hough wrote:
>> I hope that one  (or more?) of you guys can help me with a problem that I'm 
>> having with my desktop Debian Lenny setup.
>> 
>> I have no problems in playing wave files via the likes of 'audacity', 
>> streaming sound off the Internet (eg Classic FM) via Konqueror/Mplayer, and 
>> playing CDs/DVDs and digital Radio/TV via Kaffeine.
>> 
>> However,  I cannot get audacity or anything else to pick up and record sound 
>> from any of these sound sources. I use KMix and have played with all of the 
>> available channels.
>> 
>> My old Thinkpad T42 laptop running SUSE v11.1 has no trouble in doing this.
>> 
>> What am I missing?
>> 
> 
> Have you looked at the switches as well as the channel volumes in 
> alsamixer or kmix? I know some sound cards have a switch for turning the 
> internal mic on and off, so this might be what is missing.
> 
> also, look at you /dev/snd . Mine looks like this:
> 
> andy at monkey:~$ ls /dev/snd
> by-path  controlC0  hwC0D0  pcmC0D0c  pcmC0D0p  pcmC0D1p  seq  timer
> 
> if there is an entry starting 'pcm' and ending 'c' (for capture), then 
> you should be able to record sound from that device.
> 
> andy
> 
> 
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Wayne Ward

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