On Tuesday 19 December 2006 15:50, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Hi all! > > I have some trouble making my usb sound card work as I would like. My > laptop also has a built-in sound card that works ok, but has _very_ > _limited_ input sound quality. > > What is the proper way to set up and configure sound/alsa on debian etch? > > According to the fine manual [1] there's a script to configure sound: > sndconfig - configure sound system > > This seems to be gone in etch. > > There's also alsaconf, but that doesn't recognize my usb sound card (it > just finds the built-in one of my laptop). > > The sound card basically works ok, ie. I can record and play via > 'arecord' and 'aplay'. (The best strategy is to have the card plugged in > at boot, to kill artsd once kde is up and then to reload alsa as root.) > > However I cannot make audacity work with the sound card. AFAIK, audacity > would use /dev/dsp but though > > johannes2:~# cat /proc/asound/cards > 0 [USB1648 ]: USB-Audio - PHASE 26 USB(16/48) > TerraTec PHASE 26 USB(16/48) at > usb-0000:00:1d.1-2, full speed > 1 [Modem ]: ICH-MODEM - Intel 82801DB-ICH4 Modem > Intel 82801DB-ICH4 Modem at 0x2400, irq 11 > > the usb is 0, audacity only works when the usb sound card is not present > and when the built-in card is 0. Well, the whole idea about the usb-card > was to get better sound quality for audacity et al. > > Thanks for any help and/or links to get this work! > Johannes > > > [1] /usr/share/doc/Debian/reference/reference.en.pdf.gz
It might be worth asking on the alsa-user list. A while back with someone having problems with a sound card problem on a laptop, I suggested a USB one, but the reply was that USB ones need a bit of extra work to get them going. Either look on the archives or post to the list. I think the reply to get them working was something to do with dmix. https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user and to post to the list, but you have to register alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net Hope you get it fixed. Nigel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
