Re: No Input for Audacity

["Thomas H. George" <lists@tomgeorge.info>]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:15:15PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 15:19:14 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > I checked the Audacity manual which recommended installing alsa-oss and
> > starting Audacity with the command line aoss audacity.  There was still
> > no input selector on the toolbar.
> > 
> > I also checked for the subject audacity in the debian user archive for
> > each month of this year.  There were none.
> > 
> > My system is Lenny and Audacity works fine with sound files I created in
> > the past.
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> Which settings do you see under Edit > Preferences... > Devices ?
> 
> Also, the output of
> 
>   cat /proc/asound/
> 
>   grep -ri mic /proc/asound/
> 
> might help us find possible sources of problems in your audio
> configuration.
> 
Edit > Preferences offers a choice of devices for recording and
playback. They are currently set to Alsa: default.  I have also tried
selecting Alsa: HDA NVidia: AD198x Analog (hw:0,0).  Since installing
alsa-oss there is now a choice for OSS: /dev/dsp but there is no
/dev/dsp and udev wont let me make one.

The reqested outputs are:


Script started on Tue 15 Sep 2009 12:38:34 PM EDT
dragon:~# cat /proc/axousound
cat: /proc/asound: Is a directory
dragon:~# grep -ir mic /proc/asound
/proc/asound/NVidia/codec#0:  Pin Default 0x02a19122: [Jack] Mic at Ext Front
/proc/asound/NVidia/codec#0:  Pin Default 0x01a19020: [Jack] Mic at Ext Rear
/proc/asound/card0/codec#0:  Pin Default 0x02a19122: [Jack] Mic at Ext Front
/proc/asound/card0/codec#0:  Pin Default 0x01a19020: [Jack] Mic at Ext Rear
dragon:~# exit

Script done on Tue 15 Sep 2009 12:39:21 PM EDT
 
Tom