First of all, I'd like to thank everyone for their suggestions about how to convert my little collection of vinyl LP's to a digital format. I decided to give it a whirl by plugging a receiver into my sound card line in and seeing what happens with software like gramophile or grecord. The first thing I learned was about sharing the sound device. I have esd running and gramophile didn't like that since it uses /dev/dsp directly. But the cool thing is that this clicked on a major light bulb about a problem I've been having with the real audio player blocking mouse clicks and such while its playing. The problem went away when I told the realplayer to use esd. I happen to have my window manager configured to make annoying sounds on certain window events. What was happening was that esd couldn't play the sounds while the realplayer had /dev/dsp open and this caused the window manager to block. So back to recording, I hooked everything up set the mixer settings and everything appeared fine - the line in was being played back through the speaker and set up record to be line in. It seems that what ever open call on /dev/dsp for recording purposes is blocking or when done in O_NONBLOCK mode, it says device busy? Yes, I killed esd before trying gramophile. My system is one of these cheesy motherboards with everything under the sun integrated with the SIS chipset including an esssolo1 sound chip. Am I doing something wrong or would it appear to be a driver or hardware problem? -- Kathryn Hogg _______________________________________________ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
