On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 23:13 -0600, Dan Star wrote: > have a Compaq nx9010 laptop with built in Southbridge Audio. > Because > it has a flaky head phone jack and the line-in recording quality was > bad > I bought a SB Audigy 2 ZS PC Card. The SB seems to have disabled the > Southbridge because the notebook speakers don't work anymore. No PCMCIA sound card will let you output to the internal speakers - they're hard wired to the internal audio device. This applies to every OS. > But the > headphone output of the SB is great. The problem is that I use > Audacity > 1.3 on Mandriva 2007 PWP KDE with all the updates as of 12/16/06 and > line-in recording does not work. Audacity states "Error while opening > sound device. Please check the input device settings and the project > sample rate." You may need a newer ALSA version like 1.0.14 for that device. If your distro does not provide up to date ALSA packages and you don't want to risk breaking things you can try a live CD distro like the latest Knoppix... Lee ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
