Erik Steffl wrote: > Roger E wrote: >> Ludo Beckers wrote: >>> (Ubuntu Hardy) >>> Having problems with my new soundcard Audigy (Creative Soundblaster) >>> with recording through the microphone. Playback for .wav, ogg, etc. >>> works good. >>> I can't record in Sound Recorder nore Audacity nore use it with Skype. >>> >>> The Volume Control is a mystery to me because there are too many >>> strange meaningless names (LFE and "front end" and much more). > > SB live and audigy (AFAIK those are fairly similar in this regard, > only have experience with SB live) have horribly complicated and > undocumented mixers, you essentially never know what are they doing, > seems like everything changes everythings, > > searching the net provides some answers but theer's still lot of > playing around and trying involved, > > LFE is low frequency e?, i.e. subwoofer, > > Master only controls front speakers (plus center, don't remember), > > PCM: seems to control front speakers > > Surround: rear speakers (but does nothing) > > Center: is center (but does nothing) > > Synth: onboard synth (midi) > > Wave, WaveCenter, Wave LFE, Wave Surround: essentially same as the > ones without Wave in the name but different, they actually change volume > > SB Live Analog/Digital Output Jack: switches between digital and > analog output (off for analog?) > > Sigmatel 4-Speaker Stereo: not sure what this means exactly, it > changes what other controls do a bit, probably changes the card from > being 5.1 channel to be essentially 2 channel then splitting that into 4 > channels for output > > Sigmatel Surround: not sure what this does > > The above of course depends on million other things, how you define > your alsa device etc. > > Ignore if audugy is actually significantly different :-) > >>> I disabled the onboard soundcard in the BIOS, but read something on >>> Google about disabling the drivers for it too might be a good idea. >>> >>> How do I find which and where those drivers are? and does it make a >>> difference uninstalling them? > > two options - if they are build into kernel you need to rebuild > kernel (unlikely with modern distros), otherwise just ignore, they will > most likely not be loaded (because the card is not there, it's just like > for 100s other cards that are not there), you can use lsmod to figure > out which modules are loaded, Hmmm, on my server box, which has some onboard sound card built in and another PCI-based soundcard I added to it, I disabled the onboard sound in the BIOS - but Linux still finds it and installs the ALSA driver for it. (One of the reasons why I haven't got sound working on the server, I think.) I've been told by someone else that Linux doesn't pay attention to the BIOS once it begins to boot, but what do I know? -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
