[Still not SOLVED] Can't record in audacity

[Frank McCormick <debian@videotron.ca>]

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On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:31:15 +0200
Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> wrote:

> 
> >  Simple mixer control 'Surround Jack Mode',0
> >    Capabilities: enum
> >    Items: 'Shared' 'Independent'
> > -  Item0: 'Independent'
> > +  Item0: 'Shared'
> 
> I don't know what this does; you can try to change it to 'Shared' on the
> Debian system.

    Done.

> 
> Try to activate capture for front right of whatever control that is.
> (Look above line number 75 for its name.)
> 
> > @@ -136,14 +136,14 @@
> >    Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
> >    Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
> >    Limits: Capture 0 - 15
> > -  Front Left: Capture 15 [100%] [22.50dB] [on]
> > -  Front Right: Capture 15 [100%] [22.50dB] [on]
> > +  Front Left: Capture 12 [80%] [18.00dB] [on]
> > +  Front Right: Capture 12 [80%] [18.00dB] [on]

> 
> The amplification is higher for the Debian system here, maybe you are
> saturating an amplifier. Try to reduce the level of this control. (Look
> above line number 136 for its name.)

   Couldn't activate capture but matched levels


> All in all it is the usual mess of somewhat cryptically named controls,
> interacting in mysterious ways. I think your best bet is to use
> amixer-gutsy.txt as a template to set up the alsa mixer controls in
> exactly the same way on the Debian system. You can use the amixer
> command itself for this or "alsamixer" if you prefer a (curses-based)
> GUI.

  This business of sound in Linux is all too much.

> 
> [ snip: The Ubuntu systems loads a few more modules: snd_rawmidi,
>   snd_seq_dummy, snd_seq_midi, snd_seq_oss, and snd_seq. ]
> 
> You can try to load these modules on the Debian system.

   Done
> 
> I don't think that this matters, so it must be either the alsa mixer
> settings, the additional modules, or a regression in the newer ALSA
> version.


   My money is on Alsa changes. Everything else is almost identical to the
Ubuntu installation and it still doesn't work on Debian Sid
Thanks for all the help anyway Florian...I guess for some problems there
is no solution



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