On Friday 19 December 2008, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Thursday 18 December 2008 22:48, Raul Massano Brás wrote: > > On Thursday 18 December 2008, Nigel Henry wrote: > > > On Thursday 18 December 2008 19:42, Raul Massano Brás wrote: > > > > Hello > > > > > > > > My system has a ASUS P5Q SE2 motherboard and I can't get any > > > > sound from the line in input. > > > > > > > > I'm using Fedora 10, alsa drivers 1.0.18a, alsa-lib 1.0.18 and > > > > alsa-utils 1.0.18 > > > > > > > > > > > > the output of alsa-info has been uploaded to: > > > > http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=0aea89e6a07f160198140c1d9e29637d612 > > > >22 29 4 > > > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > > > > > > Raul Brás > > > > > > Hi Raul. > > > > > > When you type alsamixer in Gnomes terminal, or KDE's Konsole, you only > > > see one control, which is the one for pulseaudio. Open alsamixer as > > > below, and you will see all controls for your soundcard. > > > > > > alsamixer -D hw:0 > > > > > > You should see many sliders. Some may be muted. Use the "M" key to > > > toggle mute/unmute, and sliders like "line" may need to be pushed up. > > > > I have done that already. The "Line" slide is unmuted and at maximum, > > but I can't get any sound from line in. > > Hi Raul. >
Hi Nigel > Will you run the alsa-info.sh script again, and repost the new link. All I > get is a blank page when trying to access the present link (it may have > timed out, and been removed). The new output is at http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=e78c828e0db9df27603c70965df32d8629feae6f > > Another thing, is that you may have to have more than one control slider up > for the line in to produce sound. I know on my Archlinux install, where the > soundcard on that machine is an Audigy2 soundblaster, I have to press F4 > when alsamixer is open, and adjust some of the capture sliders to get > sounds for line in. I'm not sure which at the moment, as it's not booted > up, and as your soundcard may be different, you probably won't have the > same controls as I have. It's worth having a look at your capture controls > though. The capture controls in alsamixer are: Front Mic Boost Mic Boost Capture Capture 1 Input Source. This one is a switch that alternates between: Line, CD, Front Mic,Mic and Stereo Mixer I have tried every combination without success. On the F3 pane I have: Master Front Headphone PCM Front Front Mic Surround Center LFE Side Line CD Mic Independent HP. This one is a ON/Off switch All the channels are unmuted and all thw way up. > > Well I've just booted up Archlinux on the machine with the Audigy2 > soundblaster card. With other distro's on this machine, I only have to have > the line slider up to get sound output from the line in. Archlinux has > alsamixer version 1.0.16, and has no slider for line on the playback view > "F3". It does have an analog mix control though which needs to be up. > Switching to "F4" for the capture options, I need to move to the line > slider, press space bar to enable it, and push the line slider up. Then I > get sounds from my TV card, which has a link cable from audio out on the TV > card to line in on the soundcard. I use the line in to connect a TV card too. It used to work with my previous motherboard. The output from the tv card has sound, I can hear it if I connect the speakers directly to it. Best Regards, Raul > > What I've written above is only an example as to what I have to do to get > sounds working from the line in on one distro (Archlinux) > > All the best. > > Nigel. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >--- SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, > Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 > to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com >/ _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
