On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:12 AM, Siju George <sgeorge.ml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Still can't Capture. Audacity gives > $ audacity > Expression 'stream->capture.pcm' failed in > 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 3653 Perhaps you don't have appropriate permissions on the device? Perhaps something else (pulseaudio?) has grabbed the device? Perhaps audacity is talking to the "digital out" or "hdmi out" parts of the card and not the part with a capture device? For example card SB, device 1 doesn't have a capture part, just a playback part: If you're talking to the HDMI part, then it probably won't have an input... > aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** ... card 1: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: VT1708S Analog [VT1708S Analog] Subdevices: 2/2 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Subdevice #1: subdevice #1 card 1: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: VT1708S Digital [VT1708S Digital] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 ... > arecord -l **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** ... card 1: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: VT1708S Analog [VT1708S Analog] Subdevices: 2/2 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Subdevice #1: subdevice #1 ... Perhaps, for recording, you should use http://jackaudio.org/ to talk to your soundcard and setup audacity to work with jack. Once setup correctly, jack tends to sidestep a lot of issues w/ access or RT priority on a audio devices, will use dbus to move pulseaudio out of the way, etc. -- Niels http://nielsmayer.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
