Recording problems

[Apollo]

Ok, I figured it out.  

Using alsamixer: 
'Capture' has to be configured to capture and the volume needs to be
turned up.  
'Mic' has to be MUTED, set to capture and turn the volume up.  
'AC97' should be turned down all the way.  
'AC97 Capture' should be turned up all the way
 
After I got it working I rechecked everything listed above to make sure
thats really how I fixed it.

Woohoo!

On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 16:55, Apollo wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 21:26, Brian Kelsay wrote:
> > Do you know what mixer you are using?  
> amixer, alsamixer, alsamixergui and Gnomes Volume Control.
> 
> > It is likely that the line level is
> > all the way down.   This has been the problem for a lot of people
with
> > Mandrake and Red Hat in the past where the speaker level was down by
> > default.
> I'm not sure what you mean by line level.  Do you mean line in?
> 
> >   If you have a Gnome session try to find gmix I think it is.   From
> > a console or xterm you might try aumix as it has been an old
standard.
> > You might also have a separate mixer for the GnomeMeeting program or
the
> > Sound Recorder program.
> 
> I'm using Gentoo 1.4rc4 and a SBLive!  From what I can tell the card
is
> set to send everything from the mic to the speakers.  And I need to
> figure out how to send it to my recording device which is
> /dev/sound/dsp.  

On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 16:55, Apollo wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 21:26, Brian Kelsay wrote:
> > Do you know what mixer you are using?  
> amixer, alsamixer, alsamixergui and Gnomes Volume Control.
> 
> > It is likely that the line level is
> > all the way down.   This has been the problem for a lot of people with
> > Mandrake and Red Hat in the past where the speaker level was down by
> > default.
> I'm not sure what you mean by line level.  Do you mean line in?
> 
> >   If you have a Gnome session try to find gmix I think it is.   From
> > a console or xterm you might try aumix as it has been an old standard.
> > You might also have a separate mixer for the GnomeMeeting program or the
> > Sound Recorder program.
> 
> I'm using Gentoo 1.4rc4 and a SBLive!  From what I can tell the card is
> set to send everything from the mic to the speakers.  And I need to
> figure out how to send it to my recording device which is
> /dev/sound/dsp.  
> 
> 
> 
>