Thanks for the hints. I don't take my card to work and don't have
internet at home. So it takes several iterations to follow all the advice.
Bill Unruh wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>> My Terratec usb-sound Phase 26 provides an excellent output sound
>> quality. However, when I record something via krecord, only the left
>> channel is recorded. The resultant output file is stereo, but both left
>> and right channel correspond to the left channel from the input of the
>> sound card. (Stereo recording works ok with the identical setup, when I
>> use the stupid other O$ on my computer).
>
> Try first to record using arecord, instead of krecord, to see if it is a
> problem with krecord or with the soundcard driver.
Works now both with arecord and krecord. Probably one of the many recent
kde-updates has fixed that. (Debian etch)
>> Audacity 1.2.4b-2.1 doesn't recognize the usb sound card at all. Without
>> usb-sound card attached, it uses the built in sound card of my laptop
>> and I can record from the built in microphone. With the usb sound card
>> plugged in and working in as output for other applications I can record
>> via krecord (see above), but audacity won't show a sound card.
>
> Not sure but I believe that audacity uses /dev/dsp, not the alsa stuff.
> And if /dev/dsp is linked to your onboard soundcard, that is what will get
> used. AFAIK audacity does not allow you to change this ( eg to use
> /dev/dsp1 which is probably your usb card, if you enables oss emulation on
> that card)
jw@johannes2:~/audio/test$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [USB1648 ]: USB-Audio - PHASE 26 USB(16/48)
TerraTec PHASE 26 USB(16/48) at
usb-0000:00:1d.1-2, full speed
1 [Modem ]: ICH-MODEM - Intel 82801DB-ICH4 Modem
Intel 82801DB-ICH4 Modem at 0x2400, irq 11
With the usb-card unplugged, audacity works, using the onboard sound
card. With usb-card inserted, audacity doesn't work at all. :-(
I.e. there are no inputs selectable from the appropriate box.
Johannes
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