Not capturing sound

[Dan Kelley]

Thank you my friend, that was it.  Check the results.:

[aries at studio01 ~]$ mixer rec mic rec 100
Setting the mixer rec from 0:0 to 0:0.
Setting the mixer rec from 0:0 to 100:100.

Fired up Audacity and boom I'm recording.  This should be in a FAQ
somewhere.

I appreciate your help.

On Feb 3, 2008 2:15 PM, Stuart Barkley <stuartb at 4gh.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 at 13:31 -0600, Dan Kelley wrote:
>
> > Any other suggestions?
>
> Often the record level is set by the record control.  Try:
>
>    mixer =rec mic rec 100
>
> Give us the output from the "mixer" command (without any arguments),
> "dmesg | grep pcm" and the contents of /dev/sndstat.
>
> Some sound devices also have a 20db pad on the mic input which may
> need to be disabled.  Depending upon the specific sound driver there
> may be a mixer control which changes this.
>
> Stuart
> http://www.4gh.net/tudor/resume.html
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