On Tuesday 24 March 2009 17:21:06 Thorny wrote: > On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:26:33 +0000, Lisi Reisz posted: > > I am trying to test a microphone by some method other than ringing the > > same poor person repeatedly by VOIP. > > > > I have tried to run record applications, but cannot seem to get the > > applications going (so far Audacity and KRec). > > Hi Lisi,
Hi, Thorny, > This sounds interesting. Why can't you get them going I have no idea - I have never used either but would like them to try and record something so that I can test the mike. > and what do you mean > by "going"? I can't persuade them to do anything recognisable to me. But then I have never before tried to use a mike on a computer. All I want to use it for now, is to use Twinkle to make telephone calls. But I so far only have one SipGate number - and there is a limit to how often I feel able to make the poor chap on the other end of it carry on a one-sided conversation. > I suppose you've already checked in your mixer that mic input isn't muted, > eh? Yes. Everything is on maximum in KMix, and I tried to set "capture" and "+20" and various other bits in alsamixergui. Not very successfully because I can't make sense of the colours and symbols and alsamixer doesn't go in for words much. :-( I shall persue this line a bit more. > What is your soundcard, Card: NVidia nForce2, chip: Realtek ALC650F > any known issues with it with Lenny, if that is > what you use? D'oh! I haven't checked. Everything else I have thrown at it has Just Worked, including the earphone part of this headset. I did have to adjust the mixer settings to get it to work, way back in the mists of time when I first went from Etch to Lenny, tho' it had worked fine in Sarge and Etch. And I have just finally found the thread about this from when it happened, and have not yet worked thro' it all. I was looking on the wrong list - it was on Debian Women, not here. But I have recently reinstalled Lenny, and deliberately lost all my config files (It's a long story.....) and audio is working fine still. > ALSA working fine for other sounds on your system? See above. No problems at all with playing sound - and I actually think that it may now (after my last lot of fiddling) be transmitting/recording sound. I just need to test it somehow! While sparing my poor friend - I don't want him to become an ex-friend. ;-) I have yet to try Sinan Can İmamoğlu's suggestions, tho' I shall certainly do so. TIA Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
