Re: Audacity Line-In Recording with SB Audigy 2 ZS Doesn't Work

[Dan Star <dslap@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/18/06 11:36 PM, Lee Revell wrote:

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

  

I saw Knoppix only has 1.0.12 ALSA like I currently have and that 1.0.14RC1 added recording support for the Audigy 2 ZS PC Card.  But I don't know how to install 1.0.14RC1 properly since the Installation Notes on the website are non-existent.  I would really like a set of RPM packages for Mandriva 2007.0 i586, but I can't find them anywhere; and I have never built a RPM before (spec file looks complicated), and I don't know where all the ALSA files are supposed to go.  What should I do?

Dan

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