On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Julien Patrick Claassen wrote: > WHY DON'T YOU USE ALSAMIXER, AMIXER OR ALSAMIXERGUI??? No particular reason, other than I already had aumix installed. I did try with alsamixer at one point, and didn't have any more success with that, so I felt that I probably just didn't understand the interface well enough. However, I tried using amixer last night, and I'm at least confident with that interface, and still no luck: : calliope[syl] ~; amixer get Line Simple mixer control 'Line',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-joined cswitch-exclusive Capture exclusive group: 0 Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Front Left: Playback 28 [90%] [on] Capture [on] Front Right: Playback 28 [90%] [on] Capture [on] Still I can _hear_ the audio coming in (monitor it from the main output), but trying to _record_ the audio results in silence being "recorded". I *know* that I'm probably missing something simple, but I have no idea what or where else to look at this point. :-( > I think it is possible to build alsa into the kernel, but I don't > know how. Anyway, why would you want to do it? Personal preference, really. Partly because I normally use monolithic kernels, and partly because I see no point in having a modular kernel for a dedicated system. The kernel modules that are loaded as I type this have been loaded since the system was last booted, and will remain loaded until it gets shut down. What have I gained? With a monolithic kernel, I could be 100% certain that any and all drivers that I need are available at boot-time, when my boot-time scripts run (thereby eliminating the question of why I might be having trouble running jackd at boot-time when it runs fine from a command prompt). I appreciate your response and hope someone will be able to offer additional input that might help. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sylvain Robitaille syl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Major in Electroacoustic Studies Concordia University Faculty of Fine Arts / Music Department Montreal, Quebec, Canada ----------------------------------------------------------------------