ALSA sound recording frustration
Hi All,
In case I have to say it, I'm very frustrated trying to get ALSA sound working
on my Debian ETCH (up to date) box.
My motherboard has built-in sound. Needless to say, I want to hear sound. I
also want to be able to record sound from the stereo headphones jack of my
radio and the stereo audio out from my XM radio.
I've used
arecord -t wav -f CD junk.wav
to try to record. No matter what the settings in the mixers...total silence
(as seen by audacity and as confirmed by using hexdump).
I've searched.
I tried reloading the ALSA drivers.
I ran alsaconf.
I downloaded and installed the kernel source and the ALSA drivers source, but
I was not able to compile the drivers (couldn't find version.h). Yes, I
adjusted for source location with:
./config --with-kernel=/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.18
I've tried alsamixer and alsamixergui.
Here is a bunch of info that I found about my system:
alsamixergui:
Chip Analog Devices AD1986A
+------------------
lspci | grep -i audio
00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
+------------------
uname -a
Linux mail 2.6.18-6-k7 #1 SMP Mon Oct 13 16:52:47 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
+----------------
cat /dev/sndstat
Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.12rc1 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux mail 2.6.18-6-k7 #1 SMP Mon Oct 13 16:52:47 UTC 2008 i686
Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation
Card config:
HDA NVidia at 0xfe024000 irq 177
Audio devices:
0: AD198x Analog (DUPLEX)
Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Timers:
7: system timer
Mixers:
0: Analog Devices AD1986A
+--------------------
ls -l /dev/dsp
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 2008-11-27 08:48 /dev/dsp
+----------------
Is there anything else you need to know about my system to help me get sound
working?
PLEASE HELP me get sound working.
Thanks,
Mark
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