In trying ekiga, I discovered that I can't get any program to receive input from the mic. I'm using emu10k1 with a sound blaster live and I've tried both ekiga and audacity. I can hear the mic sound on the sound output but I can't get the sound into either program.
I'm not sure where to file a bug. alsa-lib?
tjb
Thomas J. Baker wrote:
In trying ekiga, I discovered that I can't get any program to receive input from the mic. I'm using emu10k1 with a sound blaster live and I've tried both ekiga and audacity. I can hear the mic sound on the sound output but I can't get the sound into either program.
I'm not sure where to file a bug. alsa-lib?
tjb
I haven't tried your app, but I have been a regular user of VOIP and this may help.
On the sound mixer you will need the 'master' and 'pcm' set to abt 85% to hear sound. You will likely need 'mic select' set to 1, and 'mic boost 20 db' enabled to get a reasonable level. This combo should let you hear the mic on you host audio out device.
You will need 'capture' enabled and the level could be started at 50%. This will cause input audio to appear in you audio channel out to the external world. In my experience, 'capture' level will auto adjust to the level of your audio input unless you disable it with the symbol on the left below you 'capture' level bar.
Good luck and hope this helps
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 12:07 -0500, glenn wrote:
Thomas J. Baker wrote:
In trying ekiga, I discovered that I can't get any program to receive input from the mic. I'm using emu10k1 with a sound blaster live and I've tried both ekiga and audacity. I can hear the mic sound on the sound output but I can't get the sound into either program.
I'm not sure where to file a bug. alsa-lib?
tjb
I haven't tried your app, but I have been a regular user of VOIP and this may help.
On the sound mixer you will need the 'master' and 'pcm' set to abt 85% to hear sound. You will likely need 'mic select' set to 1, and 'mic boost 20 db' enabled to get a reasonable level. This combo should let you hear the mic on you host audio out device.
You will need 'capture' enabled and the level could be started at 50%. This will cause input audio to appear in you audio channel out to the external world. In my experience, 'capture' level will auto adjust to the level of your audio input unless you disable it with the symbol on the left below you 'capture' level bar.
Good luck and hope this helps
-- Glenn
Absolutely no luck. Everything seems to be set up correctly but both ekiga and audacity show no sound input. I've tried as a normal user and as root.
tjb
On Thursday 26 Jan 2006 19:09, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
Absolutely no luck. Everything seems to be set up correctly but both ekiga and audacity show no sound input. I've tried as a normal user and as root.
I had problems some time back with em10k1 and audigy. One thing I found helpful was to run alsamixer from a console, then experiment with settings there.
There is one enormous problem with Creative cards - they sell thousands of cards with the same name, but they may have entirely different chipsets. If you can get the specific name from the top edge of the card and google for that +alsa you may find help there.
If that still fails, take all the info you can to alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net. They are helpful. HTH
Anne
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 19:32 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 26 Jan 2006 19:09, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
Absolutely no luck. Everything seems to be set up correctly but both ekiga and audacity show no sound input. I've tried as a normal user and as root.
I had problems some time back with em10k1 and audigy. One thing I found helpful was to run alsamixer from a console, then experiment with settings there.
There is one enormous problem with Creative cards - they sell thousands of cards with the same name, but they may have entirely different chipsets. If you can get the specific name from the top edge of the card and google for that +alsa you may find help there.
If that still fails, take all the info you can to alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net. They are helpful. HTH
Anne
So my test system dual boots ubuntu dapper and fc5 and under ubuntu, sound works fine. I can record from the mic using audacity. They don't have ekiga in the main repositories yet so I couldn't test that.
On a laptop with a different sound card and FC5, things work as expected, both ekiga and audacity can get sound input from the mic.
It seems FC5 has trouble with the emu10k1 driver and some sound cards. On two different versions of the SB Live card on two of my test systems, sound input fails with FC5. (#179109)
I've had a long standing problem with FC4 and audigy cards on two of my systems where the gnome mixer doesn't have any idea about the capture side, there is no capture tab no matter what I enable. (#155093 for no initial sound, #179113 for no capture tab)
tjb
On Friday 27 Jan 2006 15:23, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
So my test system dual boots ubuntu dapper and fc5 and under ubuntu, sound works fine. I can record from the mic using audacity. They don't have ekiga in the main repositories yet so I couldn't test that.
On a laptop with a different sound card and FC5, things work as expected, both ekiga and audacity can get sound input from the mic.
It seems FC5 has trouble with the emu10k1 driver and some sound cards. On two different versions of the SB Live card on two of my test systems, sound input fails with FC5. (#179109)
I've had a long standing problem with FC4 and audigy cards on two of my systems where the gnome mixer doesn't have any idea about the capture side, there is no capture tab no matter what I enable. (#155093 for no initial sound, #179113 for no capture tab)
In case it helps, here are some snippets from a thread on the alsa-users list, regarding audigy:
If you hear your tv card, then for capture set "Analog Mix Capture Volume" in alsamixer (or amixer). (Peter Zubaj)
But shouldn't I be able to hit space bar to set line in as the capture source in alsamixer?
I think this is there only for compatibility reason. This feature supports only soundcards based on AC97 codec.
I am not able to set capture source on anything at all.
There aren't any. You need to set capture volume to source what you need record and capture volume for others to 0.
I mute the Line in, but it's slider is still 100%. I get nothing.
This is how Audigy works. All analog sources are mixed together (and they use playback volumes) and only this mix can be captured (under windows it is same). !!! Line In, CD, ... affect both playback and recording. (Peter Zubaj)
Egads. I just figured it out.
I have 2 analog mix channels.
1. Analog mix. 2. Analog mix capture.
I have to turn line in up to 100%, unmute it. Then I have to turn Analog mix to 0% and turn Analog Mix Capture to 100%.
Now I can do the aplay /dev/dsp0 thing and get the trippy echo effects without having to hear the "live" input.
And the arecord recording now works, too, without having to hear the line input "live". (original questionner)
Also: For Audigy - these are digital controls: Front, Rear, Center, LFE, PCM, Music, Mic, Audigy CD, IEC958 Optical, Line2, Analog Mix, Aux2, PCM Front, PCM Rear, PCM Center, PCM LFE, PCM Capture, Music Capture, Mic Capture, Audigy CD Capture, IEC958 Optical Capture, Line2 Capture, Analog Mix Capture, Aux2 Capture. If they are not at 100% they will lower precision.
For SB Live - PCM, Master are analog controls, Wave * are digital (Peter Zubaj)
Sorry, missed this. On Audigy - digital - controls all channels On SB Live - analog - controls front channels only (Peter Zubaj)
Another thread:
After the big fight some time ago I made alsa work. But a couple of weeks ago I updated my system to Fedora 2 with kernel 2.6. During installation the soundcard was properly detected and I listened the test sound. But after that, I didnt got any sound. I have checked the file permission in dev, checked the modules, updated kernel up to 2.6.7, changed volume with alsamixer, but I
cant
find a problem and my card is still totally mute. Can somebody give me an idea?
Did you unmute the relevant channels in alsamixer (toggle with 'm'
key)?
Hmm, turning off Audigy analog/Digital output jack channel solved the problem. That was an strange, didnt happened the first time i installed alsa. Thanks a lot. ________ Maybe something there will help you?
Anne
On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 15:44 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
In case it helps, here are some snippets from a thread on the alsa-users list, regarding audigy:
...
Maybe something there will help you?
Anne
Thanks, that may explain some of what I was seeing. Still, it seems if alsamixer has a capture then gnome-volume-control should too. I'll reference your email in the bug...
tjb
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 11:25 -0500, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
In trying ekiga, I discovered that I can't get any program to receive input from the mic. I'm using emu10k1 with a sound blaster live and I've tried both ekiga and audacity. I can hear the mic sound on the sound output but I can't get the sound into either program.
I'm not sure where to file a bug. alsa-lib?
tjb
Turns out that on the Creative Labs CT4780 SBLive! Value card, in addition to having everything else correct, you need to turn up AC97 on the Capture view of alsamixer to get sound into programs.
tjb
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