To use a mic just use a stereo to dual mono splitter in the line input and use either the left or right channel. Jan On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 06:32, michelangelo79@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi People! > > I've been searchin around to solve my little problem but couldnt find any > solution yet. > > I have a Creative Sound Blaster Live! sound card and the problem is that when > i star jack deamon, i have only 2 input channel and 2 output channel. > Not bad for the output (even if my sound card has more, i need only that two). > Too bad for the input! > I noticed that the two output channel are not really two separate channel, but > left channel and right channel of the same output plug in sblive. > In the same way the two input channel are left channel and right channel of > the line-in plug. > I wonder how can I add a third input channel for the microphone plug? (just > one 'cause mic is mono). > > To start jack i use qjackctl, i tried to put 3 input channels in the setup > section, but deamon do not start with this configuration! : > configuring for 44100Hz, period = 1024 frames, buffer = 2 periods > Couldn't open hw:0 for 32bit samples trying 24bit instead > Couldn't open hw:0 for 24bit samples trying 16bit instead > ALSA: cannot set channel count to 3 for capture > ALSA: cannot configure capture channel > cannot load driver module alsa > 13:33:10.468 JACK was stopped successfully. > > While when starting jack deamon with only 2 channels (one plug) the command > line used by qjackctl is: > > jackd -v -R -t500 -dalsa -dhw:0 -r44100 -p1024 -n2 -i2 -o2 > > Any help is apriciated! :) > Thank you all! > > Michelangelo > >