Hello everyone,
I am a relatively new Linux user.
I have the following major problem: trying to record with Audacity (among others) doesn't work with
my on-board VIA ac97 sound card.
I know Audacity prety well (I wrote a User's manual for specific tasks with
Audacity).
I tried all the settings, all the combinations (in Files, settings: all
sources, mono-stereo, etc.).
I'm defeated. Although it worked perfectly fine with Win2000, it never worked
either with Knoppix 3.4.
So I guess, if I want to have a chance of solving the problem, I've got to get
under the bonnet...
I sport:
Software: Debian 3.1 ("Sarge") Kernel 2.4.27
with KDE 3.3.2
Audacity 1.2.3
Hardware: (under "Information center - Sound card" no information!)
I find my sound card under PCI:
0000:00:11:5 Multimedia Audio controller VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio
controller (rev 10)
Subsystem MicroStar International Co, Ltd KT266 onboard audio
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10
I/O ports at D0000 [size=256]
Strangely, at the command line I sometimes get a message: "via82cxxx: timeout while reading the AC97
codec (0x9A000)"
Some details.
Playing sounds under KDE3.2.2: system sounds all work; XMMS works; KsCD works; Totem DVD reader
sound works; GNOME CD player works.
Recording sounds under KDE3.2.2:
With KRec: nothing!
With Gnome Sound Recorder : I get the message: "Could not open device "/dev/dsp" for
writing."
With Recording level: I get the window: "Error (vumeter)" and the message: "Cannot connect to sound
daemon. Please run 'esd' at a command prompt."
Settings in KDE Configuration center:
General: KDE control of the sound card is suspended after 5 seconds (that was the only way I could
get the recording sources to appear in Audacity); execution with highest priority (although I
haven't had any problems so far). Hardware: automatic detection of the audio peripheral (strangely,
all other settings don't really work as well as this); full duplex.
That's as close as I could get to recording with Audacity (or any other, as you
read)...
So now my questions:
- There used to be a programme "sndconfig" under Debian 3.0 to configure the sound card. What is it
now under Debian 3.1? (perhaps that could deal with onboard audio)
- (and/or:) Is there an extra driver I should get from the Debian orginal DVDs?
- (and/or:) Is there an extra setting in this ARTS thing or elsewhere? (I've avoided getting into
that one on my own, it's too hot to me, but if somebody knows how... I'm ready to follow...)
- Would recompiling be the only solution? (there I'm afraid I won't try it before I'm WAYYYY
experienced wiht Linux, and that won't be tomorrow :-)
- I mean, can't a really serious programmer from Audacity or KDE (or else) look at that problem more
closely (I believe it's pretty common)?
- Or do I really have to resort to the last (spoil-sport, kill-joy) solution
and buy a new sound card?
So thanks for reading up to here, and especially thanks to all for your help (if you need more info,
ask).
Ludovic
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