Re: Can't record in audacity
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 18:19:50 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:52:29 -0400 Mark Neidorff wrote:
>
> > > > > I have been trying to record in audacity without success. Using
> > > > > alsamixergui all the relevant controls are up and on.
> > > > > Audacity plays back fine using the Alsa default, but none of the 6
> > > > > connections shown in the Audacity dialogue including Alsa default
> > > > > work. Audacity works in Ubuntu Gutsy using Alsa default in both
> > > > > playing back and recording.
> > > > > I am using Debian Sid/Lenny.
> > > >
> > > > What are your settings in the audacity "Audio I/O" preferences?
> > >
> > > At the moment Alsa default for both recording and playback. But I
> > > have tried all the selections for recording which are available in
> > > that box and none works. Alsa default allows me to record but its just
> > > noise, not the input from the mike. All the others give me a "error
> > > opening device" dialogue box. Strange thing is it works in Ubuntu
> > > Gutsy and I am embarrassed to say the mike also works fine on my
> > > wife's XP box.
> >
> > Check in your /dev directory for /dev/dsp. I have playback and record
> > set to /dev/dsp, channels to 2 and select "software playthrough". That
> > does work for me. Can you choose those settings? Have you looked at
> > the alsamixer settings and turned things on?
>
> Been there. Tried that. /dev/dsp works for playback as does Alsa
> default...but for record..nothing works including /dev/dsp. Most of the
> selections for recording produce the " can't open device error". I am
> totally baffled because Audacity works out of the box on Ubuntu Gutsy and
> Windows XP. How much of a difference can there be between Debian Sid/Lenny
> and Gutsy ??
You'll have to tell us...
Run these commands on the Debian install:
cat /dev/sndstat > sndstat-debian.txt
cat /proc/asound/cards > cards-debian.txt
amixer > amixer-debian.txt
grep '.*' /sys/module/snd_*/parameters/* > modparams-debian.txt
Then do the same on the Ubuntu system to generate the equivalent
*-ubuntu.txt files. Compare the pairs of corresponding files (e.g. with
"diff -u") and post the results here.
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