Well, I got sound working again by using draksound to switch back to the non-ALSA setup. So I'm back where I started, but at least can play sound. I suspect that I may be able to record through the built-in sound card without distortion if, as has been suggested, I can turn down the output from the tape deck before it hits the sound card. So I'm on the lookout for a fairly trivial stereo fader. I'm guessing Radio Shack will have such a thing, though I don't see it on their web site. Joseph Zitt wrote: > In seeing if I could dub through the UA-30, I discovered that the device > itself is apparently broken. Playing a tape through its LINE IN inputs, > I only got one channel. Carefully testing things on the tape deck, > cabling, and UA-30, I determined that nothing is coming in via the right > channel input of the UA-30. > > This appears to make all other questions about using it moot. > > So I pulled the UA-30, and tried to play another MP3 through XMMS. It > told me that it couldn't, and suggested that there was no soundcard > configured. I rebooted, and things got worse, with no sound at all > happening through anything.
