Re: No Input for Audacity
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 07:18:27PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> 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
>
This did create /dev/dsp. I then tried aoss audacity again but still no
selector for source.
> > 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
>
The output of this command is as follows:
Script started on Tue 15 Sep 2009 07:32:22 PM EDT
dragon:~# grep -ir capture /proc/asound
/proc/asound/NVidia/pcm1c/sub0/info:stream: CAPTURE
/proc/asound/NVidia/pcm1c/info:stream: CAPTURE
/proc/asound/NVidia/pcm0c/sub2/info:stream: CAPTURE
/proc/asound/NVidia/pcm0c/sub1/info:stream: CAPTURE
/proc/asound/NVidia/pcm0c/sub0/info:stream: CAPTURE
/proc/asound/NVidia/pcm0c/info:stream: CAPTURE
/proc/asound/card0/pcm1c/sub0/info:stream: CAPTURE
/proc/asound/card0/pcm1c/info:stream: CAPTURE
/proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/sub2/info:stream: CAPTURE
/proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/sub1/info:stream: CAPTURE
/proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/sub0/info:stream: CAPTURE
/proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/info:stream: CAPTURE
/proc/asound/pcm:00-01: AD198x Digital : AD198x Digital : playback 1 : capture 1
/proc/asound/pcm:00-00: AD198x Analog : AD198x Analog : playback 1 : capture 3
/proc/asound/timers:P0-0-1: PCM capture 0-0-1 : SLAVE
/proc/asound/timers:P0-0-3: PCM capture 0-0-3 : SLAVE
/proc/asound/timers:P0-0-5: PCM capture 0-0-5 : SLAVE
/proc/asound/timers:P0-1-1: PCM capture 0-1-1 : SLAVE
/proc/asound/devices: 24: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
/proc/asound/devices: 25: [ 0- 1]: digital audio capture
dragon:~# exit
Script done on Tue 15 Sep 2009 07:32:36 PM EDT
Tom
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