Re: Surely someone must have a solution to my recording problem?
I had some problems with 2.2 and the emu10k1 module with volume but they went away when I went to the 2.2.18 kernel and just compilied it in.
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Barry Samuels <barry@datamansys.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:32:44 +0000 (GMT)
>I have a SoundBlaster PCI 128 Live and I am running Debian 2.2
>with kernel 2.2.17.
>
>Using the Emu modules everything works as expected except for
>sound recording. Sound recording creates a properly formated
>.Wav file except that the values are so low as to be inaudible!
>I am trying to record using input via the line input and this
>certainly gives audible sound via the speakers even when
>recording is supposed to be taking place.
>
>I haven't forgotten anything so silly as to un-mute the
>appropriate inputs unless there is a hidden mute somewhere that I
>don't know about.
>
>If I boot the machine into Windows and use the software supplied
>with the SoundBlaster I can create normal recordings, using
>signals from the line input, which will also play back under
>Debian. So I have ruled out hardware problems.
>
>I did contact the Emu people at Creative and I quote part of the
>reply below:
>
>===============================================================
>"I looked at the file, and as you suspected it is a
>properly-formatted WAV file with almost-null data in it. Quite
>telling is the fact that the data isn't actually null -- but the
>values are incredibly small and aren't audible. What this is
>telling me is that recording _is_ taking place, but on an input
>which is inactive (through software or hardware -- can't tell).
>
>I was not expecting these results. I was thinking that either
>the file would be formatted incorrectly or that it would have
>true null data. In either of those cases, the problem would have
>likely been with either faulty recording software or with the
>configuration of the Live. As it is, I'm stumped as to
>what the problem is."
>===============================================================
>
>I have tried recording using a number of different Linux
>applications (e.g. khdrec, kmedia, krecord, gramofile) for
>recording together with different mixers ( e.g. kmix, aumix ) and
>various versions of the Emu modules but all to no avail.
>
>So - a brief resume:
>
>1. He's stumped.
>2. I'm stumped.
>3. Everybody else, so far, is stumped.
>
>Is there a genius in the house?
>
>Barry Samuels
>
>
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