[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> 1. In the past I have had problems caused by the Enlightenment Sound Daemon. >> You >> can turn it off in Gnome from the Desktop menu: >> >> Desktop -> Preferences -> Sound -> Sounds tab -> Enable software sound mixing >> (ESD) (untick) > > It was already off (unticked). Also I checked the following: > > ~# ps alx | grep art > 0 0 11137 3845 18 0 2848 712 pipe_w S+ pts/2 0:00 grep art > ~# ps alx | grep esd > 0 0 11143 3845 18 0 2848 708 - R+ pts/2 0:00 grep esd > ~# ps alx | grep alsa > 0 0 11147 3845 18 0 2852 716 pipe_w S+ pts/2 0:00 grep alsa > > >> 2. Have you turned the mic on in the mixer? Try setting your levels in >> alsamixer. In the past, this has worked better than alsamixergui. > > Using alsamixer: > > In 'Capture view', above Mic is written CAPTUR, also above Capture is > written CAPTUR and the Capture slider is set to 100<>100. > > In 'Playback view' the Mic slider is set to 100, and not muted [00]. > > > With these setting, the mic sounds are heard through the PC speakers > but Audacity records only silence. > >
I'm afraid that's all I can think of. You may be right about the problem being with the driver. I had to switch from using my expensive PCI card to using the built-in sound because the driver would not record in stereo. You could try building the latest driver - details on the alsa website [1]. Perhaps other people will have some ideas. Good luck. [1] http://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Vendor-Cirrus_Logic -- Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
