Re: Sound recorder records only silence

[x_debian-user_x@nospam.pz.podzone.net]

> 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.