Recording problems

[Brian Kelsay]

Glad you got it fixed.   Sometimes the "devil is in the details".   When you
post about problems like this people are usually going to ask questions like
I did about the programs you are using or the distro and version number.
If you think of it you might want to post those things with your original
msg. to save time getting an answer.  From what I've read in Linux Journal,
Alsa  (http://www.alsa-project.org/) is becoming the standard for sound
functionality and control in the kernel.  Hopefully that will reduce some
headaches in the future.

I had to replace my Linux firewall yesterday when the power supply failed.
I pulled the NICs and slapped them into another box and pulled the power to
the hard drive and cd since I don't use them and then booted to the Linux
floppy (Freesco).   I wasn't getting the internal interface 192.168.0.1 and
I wasn't getting an IP from the ISP.  I thought about it for a while and
remembered that I had to reserve an IRQ in the BIOS for the ISA NIC at IRQ
10.   Rebooted and all was back to normal.   That's about the fourth time in
a couple of years that the firewall has gone down and it was always due to a
power supply failure.  Eventually I'll run out of junk boxes, maybe.

Brian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Apollo" <
To: <kclug@
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: Recording problems

> 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.
> >