Re: No Input for Audacity
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:54:47 -0400, Thomas H. George 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.
[...]
> 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).
Both choices seem OK to me.
> 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.
I do not understand why the ALSA devices do not work; in any case, it
cannot hurt to try OSS. Udev should create /dev/dsp for you if you do
this (as root):
modprobe snd_pcm_oss
> The reqested outputs are:
>
> Script started on Tue 15 Sep 2009 12:38:34 PM EDT
> dragon:~# cat /proc/asound
> cat: /proc/asound: Is a directory
Sorry, my mistake; I meant
cat /proc/asound/cards
> 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
That looks OK, too; what about this:
grep -ir capture /proc/asound
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