Problems recording sound in FreeBSD 5.1

[john at utzweb.net]

I dont know if recording is supported, it probably is....

did you check your volumes with mixer to see if the input isnt set to 0:0?

> Aloha!
>
> I've tried to fathom how to record sound from the microphone. But so far

> no success.
>
> Hardware wise, I've got an Asus A7V8X motherboard with built in AC97
> sound. Additionaly I've tried my old SB card (Not at the same time).
> Both the built in AC97 device and the EMU10K device. For example:
>
> <snip>
> FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
> Installed devices:
> pcm0: <Creative EMU10K1> at io 0xd400 irq 10 (4p/2r/0v channels duplex
> default)
> </snip>
>
> This does mean that I have two record channels, one of which should be
> the mic, correct?
>
> I'm running FreeBSD 5.1 and KDE3.
>
> However, no matter what tools I try to use, I don't get any sound input
> at all. I have checked the mixer setting so that the mic should be
enabled.
>
> Is there ar simple way to directly verify that the mic input works? Has
> anybody experienced similar problems? Anybody knows what might be the
> problem?
>
> I have checked the handbook and done some searches of archives as well
> as Google. No luck however. Lots of info on sound output, but nothing on

> recording.
>
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