Hi Toby, If you want to send me a copy of your amixer output I would be happy to take a look at it and see if anything occurs to me. I am using a setup like yours without any problems. What alsa version are you using? To get the output, do this: $ amixer > filename and send me "filename". Chuck On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Toby Fisher wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm sure this has been covered somewhere before, but the archives didn't > unearth anything. > > I'm trying to get arecord working. > > I'm assuming I've plugged the mike into the correct socket on the sound > card as > 1. I get the same result (see below) for all available sockets, and > 2. I can hear the input to the microphone through my speakers when not > recording. > > I'm using a Soundblaster Live Value, the Alsa sound drivers seem to be > working fine, I can use both play and aplay to listen to wav files I > already have. > > The problem is, whenever I play back the files I've created, I'm greeted > with just silence. I've used alsamixer to set the input from the mike and > the line in, just to make sure, both to capture and unmuted, set the > volume to around 75%. > > What am I doing wrong? > > Btw, as an aside, it helps if subject lines say something about the > subject matter, not just "question" etc, as it means that there is some > chance of the archive serving its purpose. > > Thanks. > > > -- > Toby Fisher Email: toby at g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk > Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 > ICQ: #61744808 > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > Visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck The Moon is New
