Re: recording sound ?

[digger vermont <digver@verizon.net>]

Hi Soeren,

On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 07:14 +0200, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 00:36, digger vermont wrote:
...
> > 
> > I believe it depends on what computer you have.  I have a powerbook g4
> > with a Snapper sound-chip.  Unfortunately the last time I tried the
> > internal mic barely worked.  There is a capture device, but no real
> > control of it.  The best I can get is a distorted low level signal.
> 
> Actually I tried gnomemeeting yesterday.  And YES it really works with
> the internal microphone on kernel 2.6.5+ with alsa enabled.
> 

Great! I hadn't tried since alsa 1.01 or so.  I'm also now getting
better results, actually usable results.  It is very touchy to set the
levels though.  Would be nice to have a recording level control.


> I did check whether line-in works nicely...
> 
> However I was pretty excited that it worked at all :)

Me too!

digger