Chris Lale wrote: > David Dawson wrote: >> Chris Lale wrote: >> >>> David Dawson wrote: >>>> I'm running Debian Testing and the mike capture recently stopped >>>> working. The card is a Creative Soundblaster Live. >>>> The problem is that the system will not allow any app to get mike >>>> audio. On the other hand I *can* get mike audio through the card if I >>>> switch on the mixer monitor. >>>> I tried setting things with Alsamixer, but no go. >>>> The sound system in the kernel (Debian 2.6.18-K7) is Alsa. >>> It may be worth checking your hardware [1]. If your motherboard has >>> built-in sound, this may have been detected by Alsa as the default. It >>> will thus be expecting your mike to be plugged into the integrated sound >>> mic socket. >> Thanks, but actually the on-board sound is disabled and that would also >> apply to the speaker and line input. >>> [1] >>> >> [http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Sound_in_Debian_GNU/Linux#Check_your_hardware >> > > Are you using Gnome? In the past I have had problems with the ESD. Try > turning it off: > > Desktop -> Sound -> Enable software sound mixing (ESD) [untick this box]. > > You may need to restart X before this takes effect (ctrl-alt-backspace). > I just finished playing around with Alsamixer again and lo-and-behold the capture is working. Just had to activate the AC97 capture maybe. I dunno. I'm shaking my head {:) Thanks for your interest, Chris. -- If you wrestle in the mud with a pig, you both get dirty and the pig likes it. -- Dave Dawson
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